Comments on: Bokashi: This is Not Your Father's Compost http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/03/bokashi-this-is-not-your-fathers-compost/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sat, 26 May 2012 00:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Landfill Solutions, Compliments of the Muncher | CleanTechnica http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/03/bokashi-this-is-not-your-fathers-compost/#comment-102065 Landfill Solutions, Compliments of the Muncher | CleanTechnica Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:09:20 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2261#comment-102065 [...]  Jacob Dickinson Related Posts on CleanTechnica:Waste Management Anyone? Try Composting ToiletsBokashi: This is Not Your Father’s CompostShareShareDiggEmailPrint 2 commentsTags:compostgreen and odorless fertilizerJacobsonlandfilllandfill [...] [...]  Jacob Dickinson Related Posts on CleanTechnica:Waste Management Anyone? Try Composting ToiletsBokashi: This is Not Your Father’s CompostShareShareDiggEmailPrint 2 commentsTags:compostgreen and odorless fertilizerJacobsonlandfilllandfill [...]

]]> By: SUNfiltered http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/03/bokashi-this-is-not-your-fathers-compost/#comment-101859 SUNfiltered Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:42:30 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2261#comment-101859 [...] vegetable and fruit peelings and leftovers. If you’re really die-hard, you may even use a bokashi system, which allows you to compost meat and dairy [...] [...] vegetable and fruit peelings and leftovers. If you’re really die-hard, you may even use a bokashi system, which allows you to compost meat and dairy [...]

]]> By: Anonymous http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/03/bokashi-this-is-not-your-fathers-compost/#comment-101160 Anonymous Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:33:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2261#comment-101160 As a licensed veterinary nurse for 20 years I can tell you that there are no "viruses" that are transmissible from dog or cat to humans through the system described. However, there are parasites that are common to dogs and cats that can survive this process, such as, roundworms and toxoplasmosis. However, if you consult your veterinarian it is possible to virtually eliminate all parasites from your pet if you follow your veterinarian's instructions. Personally, I de-worm my dog once each month when I give them their heartworm preventative each month. [Those with serious immune system suppression probably should not do bokashi for any purpose either way, though.] As a licensed veterinary nurse for 20 years I can tell you that there are no “viruses” that are transmissible from dog or cat to humans through the system described. However, there are parasites that are common to dogs and cats that can survive this process, such as, roundworms and toxoplasmosis. However, if you consult your veterinarian it is possible to virtually eliminate all parasites from your pet if you follow your veterinarian’s instructions. Personally, I de-worm my dog once each month when I give them their heartworm preventative each month. [Those with serious immune system suppression probably should not do bokashi for any purpose either way, though.]

]]> By: Roel Bokashi http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/03/bokashi-this-is-not-your-fathers-compost/#comment-5548 Roel Bokashi Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:37:22 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2261#comment-5548 Nice article Tina! I am really satisfied with my Bokashi. I think it is a really good way to compost, especially for people like me, who are living in an apartment! Thanks for a nice read. Roel Nice article Tina! I am really satisfied with my Bokashi. I think it is a really good way to compost, especially for people like me, who are living in an apartment!

Thanks for a nice read.

Roel

]]> By: Roel Bokashi http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/03/bokashi-this-is-not-your-fathers-compost/#comment-22410 Roel Bokashi Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:37:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2261#comment-22410 Nice article Tina! I am really satisfied with my Bokashi. I think it is a really good way to compost, especially for people like me, who are living in an apartment! Thanks for a nice read. Roel Nice article Tina! I am really satisfied with my Bokashi. I think it is a really good way to compost, especially for people like me, who are living in an apartment!

Thanks for a nice read.

Roel

]]> By: Bokashi Kris http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/03/bokashi-this-is-not-your-fathers-compost/#comment-5547 Bokashi Kris Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:50:23 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2261#comment-5547 Bokashi is perfect for people who live in apartments - there is little smell and you can cut down your kitchen waste significantly. It may take a little while to get in the groove, but I feel better knowing that I am reducing the amount of waste going to landfill. Bokashi is perfect for people who live in apartments – there is little smell and you can cut down your kitchen waste significantly. It may take a little while to get in the groove, but I feel better knowing that I am reducing the amount of waste going to landfill.

]]> By: Bokashi Kris http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/03/bokashi-this-is-not-your-fathers-compost/#comment-22409 Bokashi Kris Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:50:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2261#comment-22409 Bokashi is perfect for people who live in apartments - there is little smell and you can cut down your kitchen waste significantly. It may take a little while to get in the groove, but I feel better knowing that I am reducing the amount of waste going to landfill. Bokashi is perfect for people who live in apartments – there is little smell and you can cut down your kitchen waste significantly. It may take a little while to get in the groove, but I feel better knowing that I am reducing the amount of waste going to landfill.

]]> By: Jenny Harlen http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/03/bokashi-this-is-not-your-fathers-compost/#comment-5546 Jenny Harlen Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:22:32 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2261#comment-5546 Yep, Bokashi works fine even in frozen winters (I live in Sweden, brrrrrr....). Obviously you can't dig holes and even our hot composters freeze up. What I do is tip a bucket now and then into the compost bin anyhow (covered with some leaves or newspaper) to help keep it alive. Most of my Bokashi goes straight from the bin into my little "soil factory" -- sounds fancy but it's just a big plastic storage box with lid. Layer the Bokashi with garden soil (fill a bucket in the autumn and keep it handy), leaves, old pot plants, etc. The warmer the better, ideally a cellar or garage. You'll have a great supply of "supersoil" when spring finally comes around! I've written more in detail about this on my blog (Bokashiworld), if you've got any good tips to share pls let me know! /Jenny Yep, Bokashi works fine even in frozen winters (I live in Sweden, brrrrrr….). Obviously you can’t dig holes and even our hot composters freeze up. What I do is tip a bucket now and then into the compost bin anyhow (covered with some leaves or newspaper) to help keep it alive. Most of my Bokashi goes straight from the bin into my little “soil factory” — sounds fancy but it’s just a big plastic storage box with lid. Layer the Bokashi with garden soil (fill a bucket in the autumn and keep it handy), leaves, old pot plants, etc. The warmer the better, ideally a cellar or garage. You’ll have a great supply of “supersoil” when spring finally comes around!

I’ve written more in detail about this on my blog (Bokashiworld), if you’ve got any good tips to share pls let me know!

/Jenny

]]> By: Jenny Harlen http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/03/bokashi-this-is-not-your-fathers-compost/#comment-22408 Jenny Harlen Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:22:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2261#comment-22408 Yep, Bokashi works fine even in frozen winters (I live in Sweden, brrrrrr....). Obviously you can't dig holes and even our hot composters freeze up. What I do is tip a bucket now and then into the compost bin anyhow (covered with some leaves or newspaper) to help keep it alive. Most of my Bokashi goes straight from the bin into my little "soil factory" -- sounds fancy but it's just a big plastic storage box with lid. Layer the Bokashi with garden soil (fill a bucket in the autumn and keep it handy), leaves, old pot plants, etc. The warmer the better, ideally a cellar or garage. You'll have a great supply of "supersoil" when spring finally comes around! I've written more in detail about this on my blog (Bokashiworld), if you've got any good tips to share pls let me know! /Jenny Yep, Bokashi works fine even in frozen winters (I live in Sweden, brrrrrr….). Obviously you can’t dig holes and even our hot composters freeze up. What I do is tip a bucket now and then into the compost bin anyhow (covered with some leaves or newspaper) to help keep it alive. Most of my Bokashi goes straight from the bin into my little “soil factory” — sounds fancy but it’s just a big plastic storage box with lid. Layer the Bokashi with garden soil (fill a bucket in the autumn and keep it handy), leaves, old pot plants, etc. The warmer the better, ideally a cellar or garage. You’ll have a great supply of “supersoil” when spring finally comes around!

I’ve written more in detail about this on my blog (Bokashiworld), if you’ve got any good tips to share pls let me know!

/Jenny

]]> By: Renee Benzaim http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/03/bokashi-this-is-not-your-fathers-compost/#comment-5545 Renee Benzaim Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:04:54 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2261#comment-5545 Interesting article. I think Bokashi is wonderful for people who don't have a lot of room, even though they still must put the Bokashi materials in a normal compost making situation or bury it outdoors in their garden. For the person who mentioned dog poop, worms eat dog poop so a wormery just for this would be a good solution. The castings that result can be used in an ornamental garden. Interesting article. I think Bokashi is wonderful for people who don’t have a lot of room, even though they still must put the Bokashi materials in a normal compost making situation or bury it outdoors in their garden. For the person who mentioned dog poop, worms eat dog poop so a wormery just for this would be a good solution. The castings that result can be used in an ornamental garden.

]]> By: Renee Benzaim http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/03/bokashi-this-is-not-your-fathers-compost/#comment-22407 Renee Benzaim Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:04:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2261#comment-22407 Interesting article. I think Bokashi is wonderful for people who don't have a lot of room, even though they still must put the Bokashi materials in a normal compost making situation or bury it outdoors in their garden. For the person who mentioned dog poop, worms eat dog poop so a wormery just for this would be a good solution. The castings that result can be used in an ornamental garden. Interesting article. I think Bokashi is wonderful for people who don’t have a lot of room, even though they still must put the Bokashi materials in a normal compost making situation or bury it outdoors in their garden. For the person who mentioned dog poop, worms eat dog poop so a wormery just for this would be a good solution. The castings that result can be used in an ornamental garden.

]]> By: Dr. Larry Green http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/03/bokashi-this-is-not-your-fathers-compost/#comment-5544 Dr. Larry Green Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:14:55 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2261#comment-5544 Hi to Becky and Uncle B, Becky, I don't know what you were doing but the experience you describe is inconsistent with proper bokashi fermentation. If it is done properly with a high quality fermenter (it has to be truly anaerobic..no oxygen), it is very easy, fast, and hard to do incorrectly. You need to have the bokashi culture mix. You need to follow directions and keep it closed long enough for fermenting (pickling of your food waste) to complete. There is only a sweet acid pickled smell that is not like garbage smells when you add more waste to the fermenter. It does not give you soil ready to go on the ground but instead gives you fermented waste that must then be put into the ground. It is wonderfully and rapidly transformed by soil microbes to the valued highly nutrious soil restoring diversity of microbes and organic matter to that soil. It is really an efficient way of handling your food waste and will accept any kind of waste material including meat,bones, fish, dairy products, egg shells, vegetables, etc. You might want to look at www.bokashicycle.com where there is a lof of educational material and also a FAQ section that answers a lot of common questions. Also regarding animal droppings.........not a good idea. Even though it would metabolize and end up in the soil as a nutrient it is a risk if the animal is carrying any kind of potential viruses that did not break down.......could then end up in your vegetable garden and back to you. In the winter when it is frozen outside you just store the fermented (pickled) waste material in a container outside until spring thaw. Then you put it into the ground mixing with the soil and it will rapidly be taken up leaving very fresh and rich soil for your garden. It is not smelly and is very easy. Hope you get a good system working as it is the most ecologically sound method of disposing of waste material. It is also surprising how easy it is once you get going. Use the bokashi tea on your house plants and in your garden...then throw away those fertilizers and pessticides. Your plants will really florish. Good Luck..... Larry Green Hi to Becky and Uncle B,

Becky, I don’t know what you were doing but the experience you describe is inconsistent with proper bokashi fermentation. If it is done properly with a high quality fermenter (it has to be truly anaerobic..no oxygen), it is very easy, fast, and hard to do incorrectly. You need to have the bokashi culture mix. You need to follow directions and keep it closed long enough for fermenting (pickling of your food waste) to complete. There is only a sweet acid pickled smell that is not like garbage smells when you add more waste to the fermenter.

It does not give you soil ready to go on the ground but instead gives you fermented waste that must then be put into the ground. It is wonderfully and rapidly transformed by soil microbes to the valued highly nutrious soil restoring diversity of microbes and organic matter to that soil. It is really an efficient way of handling your food waste and will accept any kind of waste material including meat,bones, fish, dairy products, egg shells, vegetables, etc.

You might want to look at http://www.bokashicycle.com where there is a lof of educational material and also a FAQ section that answers a lot of common questions. Also regarding animal droppings………not a good idea. Even though it would metabolize and end up in the soil as a nutrient it is a risk if the animal is carrying any kind of potential viruses that did not break down…….could then end up in your vegetable garden and back to you.

In the winter when it is frozen outside you just store the fermented (pickled) waste material in a container outside until spring thaw. Then you put it into the ground mixing with the soil and it will rapidly be taken up leaving very fresh and rich soil for your garden. It is not smelly and is very easy. Hope you get a good system working as it is the most ecologically sound method of disposing of waste material. It is also surprising how easy it is once you get going. Use the bokashi tea on your house plants and in your garden…then throw away those fertilizers and pessticides. Your plants will really florish.

Good Luck…..

Larry Green

]]> By: Dr. Larry Green http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/03/bokashi-this-is-not-your-fathers-compost/#comment-22406 Dr. Larry Green Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:14:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2261#comment-22406 Hi to Becky and Uncle B, Becky, I don't know what you were doing but the experience you describe is inconsistent with proper bokashi fermentation. If it is done properly with a high quality fermenter (it has to be truly anaerobic..no oxygen), it is very easy, fast, and hard to do incorrectly. You need to have the bokashi culture mix. You need to follow directions and keep it closed long enough for fermenting (pickling of your food waste) to complete. There is only a sweet acid pickled smell that is not like garbage smells when you add more waste to the fermenter. It does not give you soil ready to go on the ground but instead gives you fermented waste that must then be put into the ground. It is wonderfully and rapidly transformed by soil microbes to the valued highly nutrious soil restoring diversity of microbes and organic matter to that soil. It is really an efficient way of handling your food waste and will accept any kind of waste material including meat,bones, fish, dairy products, egg shells, vegetables, etc. You might want to look at www.bokashicycle.com where there is a lof of educational material and also a FAQ section that answers a lot of common questions. Also regarding animal droppings.........not a good idea. Even though it would metabolize and end up in the soil as a nutrient it is a risk if the animal is carrying any kind of potential viruses that did not break down.......could then end up in your vegetable garden and back to you. In the winter when it is frozen outside you just store the fermented (pickled) waste material in a container outside until spring thaw. Then you put it into the ground mixing with the soil and it will rapidly be taken up leaving very fresh and rich soil for your garden. It is not smelly and is very easy. Hope you get a good system working as it is the most ecologically sound method of disposing of waste material. It is also surprising how easy it is once you get going. Use the bokashi tea on your house plants and in your garden...then throw away those fertilizers and pessticides. Your plants will really florish. Good Luck..... Larry Green Hi to Becky and Uncle B,

Becky, I don’t know what you were doing but the experience you describe is inconsistent with proper bokashi fermentation. If it is done properly with a high quality fermenter (it has to be truly anaerobic..no oxygen), it is very easy, fast, and hard to do incorrectly. You need to have the bokashi culture mix. You need to follow directions and keep it closed long enough for fermenting (pickling of your food waste) to complete. There is only a sweet acid pickled smell that is not like garbage smells when you add more waste to the fermenter.

It does not give you soil ready to go on the ground but instead gives you fermented waste that must then be put into the ground. It is wonderfully and rapidly transformed by soil microbes to the valued highly nutrious soil restoring diversity of microbes and organic matter to that soil. It is really an efficient way of handling your food waste and will accept any kind of waste material including meat,bones, fish, dairy products, egg shells, vegetables, etc.

You might want to look at http://www.bokashicycle.com where there is a lof of educational material and also a FAQ section that answers a lot of common questions. Also regarding animal droppings………not a good idea. Even though it would metabolize and end up in the soil as a nutrient it is a risk if the animal is carrying any kind of potential viruses that did not break down…….could then end up in your vegetable garden and back to you.

In the winter when it is frozen outside you just store the fermented (pickled) waste material in a container outside until spring thaw. Then you put it into the ground mixing with the soil and it will rapidly be taken up leaving very fresh and rich soil for your garden. It is not smelly and is very easy. Hope you get a good system working as it is the most ecologically sound method of disposing of waste material. It is also surprising how easy it is once you get going. Use the bokashi tea on your house plants and in your garden…then throw away those fertilizers and pessticides. Your plants will really florish.

Good Luck…..

Larry Green

]]> By: Eluviation http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/03/bokashi-this-is-not-your-fathers-compost/#comment-5543 Eluviation Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:47:20 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2261#comment-5543 Think body disposal Think body disposal

]]> By: Eluviation http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/03/bokashi-this-is-not-your-fathers-compost/#comment-22405 Eluviation Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:47:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2261#comment-22405 Think body disposal Think body disposal

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