Anyone with experience with Bokashi/Effective Micro-organisms?
http://www.emtechnologynetwork.org/
this is a website for effective microorganisms, it has a lot of infomation and publications to order.
I live in a cohousing community in Tucson www.milagrocohousing.org and we use the em system for our individual houses and for the common house. When the organic matter is pickled with the bokashi we put it in trenches in our garden area. This is to build our soil
patricia
Patricia,
Thanks so much for the link to EM Technology Network. That site has a host of info on Effective Microorganisms including Bokashi.
I also came across this blog entry by Al Pasternak of Urban Wilderness about his Bokashi experiences.
Cheers,
Jim Z, Sustainable Saratoga Springs (NY)
Came across yet another website touting the use of Bokashi and EM.
Cheers,
Jim Z
I read up about this and got the process as simple as possible and still be convenient for my conditions. Quite simple get your food scraps in a container with water and bakers yeast. Due to the yeast feeding on the food scraps there is no offensive smell. Once the container is full some contents are placed in a new container as a starter. The rest of the water is poured out as a fertilizer and the remaining contents are burried about an inch deep.
I have a dog so nearly all meat scraps go to the dog.
As a backyard organic gardener (about 40 sq meters), I found an article on Bokashi use in Nova Scotia quite interesting. I have a compost box here in Saratoga Springs, New York, but the breakdown of organic matter is quite slow. I'm not using worms or strictly adhering to the addition of green/brown matter. Is anyone familiar with Bokashi and its effectiveness in reducing composting times?
OM Shanti,
Jim Zack, Sustainable Saratoga Springs (NY)