What is it? Well, bokashi is a great way of composting food, especially if you want to keep that bucket of compost in your kitchen from stinking.
You put your kitchen scraps into an air tight container and sprinkle some bran onto the scraps. The bran has had good microbes embedded into it which ferment the scraps. A couple of weeks after the container has been filled, you can dig the contents into the ground and they are well on their way to being broken down. This makes for a quick decomposition in the ground and a rich area in your garden.
Interesting post. I've heard about bokashi and seen it in shops in Sydney, but haven't tried it yet. Did you buy yours? Or do you make it yourself?
ReplyDeleteBy the way, bokashi is also the word for fading effects in photo editing software in Japan. Apparently the enhanced decomposition of bokashi makes kitchen waste look "faded" around the edges so that's why they call the fermenting bran "bokashi".