Composting

Krystal on May 2nd, 2011

Bruce Mol is a friend of a friend and I was introduced to his inspiring project the other day. Last year at the Armstrong IPE they introduced a bokashi pilot program of sorts where they collected the food waster from the fair over 5 days in 45 gallon barrels. All in all they collected 1 [...]

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Krystal on July 7th, 2010

At this point our bokashi should be ready to dry, if you have not already done that. Remember the bokashi bran should should have a sweet fermented smell, like beer, yeast etc. If you have any blue / red mold on top, it is an indication that some air got in, during the fermenting process. [...]

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Krystal on May 31st, 2010

It has been a bit over two weeks since we made our bokashi bran, so we can start checking it now. Our instructions say that we are to look for whitish fuzz over the top and a sour fermented smell. Mine (I made 5 Kg) has a whitish fuzz, dotted with blue mold spots that [...]

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Krystal on May 10th, 2010

A small group of people wanted to give a new idea a try. We’d heard about bokashi composting and thought to ourselves ‘hey I’d like to do that.’ When the costs mounted ever higher what once seemed like a simple project turned into an investment. And thus the Bokashi group was formed. We made our [...]

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