How to Use a Bokashi Bucket
The Bokashi Bucket is a practical and convenient alternative for transforming kitchen waste into a nutrient rich soil conditioner. This unique composting system uses the revolutionary EM (Effective Micro-Organisms) Bokashi to create the ideal conditions for airtight (anerobic) composting, eliminating the odours and unpleasantness associated with putrefaction and decay.
What you can compost in your Bokashi Bucket:
You can compost almost every kitchen food waste including fruit and vegetables, prepared foods, cooked and uncooked meats and fish, eggs, bread, coffee grinds, tea bags, wilted flowers and tissues. Do not include liquids or meat bones.
How to use a Bokashi Bucket:
- Place a layer of kitchen waste in the bucket and sprinke evenly with a handful of EM Bokashi. (Approximately 1 tablespoon for each cup of waste - more for high protein foods like meat, fish or cheese).
- Press down mixture to remove air - a potato masher works great.
- Close the lid tightly to help keep out air and aid the anerobic fermentation process.
- Repeat this process as the bucket fills up.
- Regularly drain the Bokashi juice from the bottom. Dilute to make up liquid fertiliser for your garden.
- Once the Bokashi bucket is full you can bury the waste in your garden or put it in a worm farm. Here the waste will breakdown quickly.
- Wash the bucket and start all over again!
If your household or work place produces a large amount of kitchen waste you may need to go to a 2-bucket system. In this system you fill the first bucket and leave to continue to ferment. Once the second bucket is full you then empty the first bucket into your garden, wash and use again while the second bucket is fermenting. Continue to cycle the buckets as needed. The longer the fermentation the more Bokashi juice you will get to distrubute in your garden and the faster the waste will breakdown once it is in the garden.
Bokashi Buckets are a great addition to any household or workplace where food waste is produced. They are low odour so great to use in small places or around other food handling areas.
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