Comments on: Ballsing up bokashi http://www.freeshift.com/2009/02/14/ballsing-up-bokashi/ The art of downshifting - finding freedom with the simple life Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:10:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Roel Bokashi http://www.freeshift.com/2009/02/14/ballsing-up-bokashi/comment-page-1/#comment-96 Roel Bokashi Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:43:46 +0000 http://www.freeshift.com/?p=25#comment-96 Hi Trish, Sad to read that you're not happy with your Bokashi. Seems like you did everything right though! I personally am very satisfied with my Bokashi and I think its wonderful. I live in a very small place, but it is a really good way to compost. Maybe you should give it another chance? Anyway, thanks for a good read. Roel Hi Trish,

Sad to read that you’re not happy with your Bokashi. Seems like you did everything right though! I personally am very satisfied with my Bokashi and I think its wonderful. I live in a very small place, but it is a really good way to compost.

Maybe you should give it another chance?

Anyway, thanks for a good read.

Roel

]]> By: Bokashi Morgane http://www.freeshift.com/2009/02/14/ballsing-up-bokashi/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Bokashi Morgane Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:05:49 +0000 http://www.freeshift.com/?p=25#comment-61 I recently began to use Bokashi, and I’m really happy about it. it is a very good way to compost. I recently began to use Bokashi, and I’m really happy about it. it is a very good way to compost.

]]> By: JennyH http://www.freeshift.com/2009/02/14/ballsing-up-bokashi/comment-page-1/#comment-8 JennyH Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:38:33 +0000 http://www.freeshift.com/?p=25#comment-8 Hi there, Don't give up!! You did everything right. You won't get soil in the bin itself. The thing with Bokashi is that it still looks like food after its fermented. Just like picked cucumbers or whatever. If you don't see much change then it's doing what it should, otherwise it would have turned into a rotting ugly mess. The thing is, a lot has happened that you don't see. The food has been broken down into its component proteins and amino acids and the like, this is the stuff that plants can take up directly. If you dig down the contents of your fermented bins (or lay the stuff out and cover with soil) it will turn into super soil in no time. You've lost no carbon to the atmosphere and its better food for your plants than anything else you can think of. If you want you can tip them in your traditional compost. Cover over with leaves or garden waste. You'll find it speeds up your compost and the microbes will find their way into the rest of the bin making it a much more valuable compost for your plants. So have another go! And it won't help to add more bokashi, you actually need very little to make it work. If it's not smelling you're adding enough. Sounds like you generate a lot of good food waste and its a damn shame not to let your plants have it directly! /JennyH more info/pics on my blog bokashiworld.wordpress.com Hi there,
Don’t give up!! You did everything right. You won’t get soil in the bin itself. The thing with Bokashi is that it still looks like food after its fermented. Just like picked cucumbers or whatever. If you don’t see much change then it’s doing what it should, otherwise it would have turned into a rotting ugly mess. The thing is, a lot has happened that you don’t see. The food has been broken down into its component proteins and amino acids and the like, this is the stuff that plants can take up directly. If you dig down the contents of your fermented bins (or lay the stuff out and cover with soil) it will turn into super soil in no time. You’ve lost no carbon to the atmosphere and its better food for your plants than anything else you can think of. If you want you can tip them in your traditional compost. Cover over with leaves or garden waste. You’ll find it speeds up your compost and the microbes will find their way into the rest of the bin making it a much more valuable compost for your plants.
So have another go! And it won’t help to add more bokashi, you actually need very little to make it work. If it’s not smelling you’re adding enough. Sounds like you generate a lot of good food waste and its a damn shame not to let your plants have it directly!
/JennyH
more info/pics on my blog bokashiworld.wordpress.com

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