I credit my husband for his green thumb and desire to build an earthship one day…that’s what led us on the road to composting every food scrap from veggies, coffee grinds, cheese, milk, even meat! I always cook the meat first, even if it’s gone bad..I hate that part the most!! But did you know all of the food scraps that get scraped off your plate each day really add up and mix with trash for this nasty, toxic methane that goes into the precious air our babies breath!
Bokashi is a really easy way to separate your food trash from your recyclables and other trash. I have a really easy recipe. We use a small van in the kitchen and pickle buckets from Lowes etc filled w Bokashi and old food. Let me tell you it makes the most beautiful, healthy soil you have ever seen! Perfect for your garden veggies and flower gardens.
Material:
1.5 TB EM-1 and I bought ours on Amazon for fairly cheap!
3lb Bran Flake Material -wheat bran from an animal feed store, we bought a 15 lb bag for like $10 at feed store right before you get to Old Milford, next to Lehrs Meat and the party supply store.
1.5TB organic Molasses -from Krogers or Whole Foods
3 cups water
A pickle bucket for mixing-or plastic baby poor if you really want to make a big batch!
Plastic bag -trash bag w no holes.
Instructions:
1. Dissolve The molasses in the water. 2. Add EM-1 to the water mix. 3. Poor dry flake material into the mixing container. 4. Add two thirds of the water mixture to the flake material and mix it together. Use your hands! It’s vital to determining when you’ve achieved the ideal moisture level. 5. squeeze a handful of flakes together if it sticks together without dripping it’s perfect if it crumbles like dust it’s too dry slowly add the remaining liquid to your flakes pausing periodically to squeeze test it until it achieves the conditions of not dripping but clumped together. If liquid uses from the flakes it’s too wet. 6. Once you achieve the proper moisture level put the dampen flakes into a plastic bag. Space compress the bag contents to squeeze out as much air as you can from between the flakes and throughout the bag. 7. Twister tie the bag closed, sealing the flags in a private, airtight universe.8. Keep the bag in a warm, out-of-the-way corner like a cupboard or cabinet for a minimum of two weeks. In this quiet, dark, airless space, the microbes will ferment the flakes.9. After a few weeks have passed, open the bag. It should have a sweet yeasty smell to it. You may see white mold on it which is fine, if you see green, blue, black mold something went wrong in the wrong microbes cultivated. Compost the bad batch and start over.10. Dry your flicks for long-term storage in use. Spread your Bokashi flakes out in a thin layer on the floor or table to air out. You can do this in a tray, on a plate, or any other surface you don’t mind being spread flakes on. Heat and sunshine helps speed things up.
Two weeks later we opened the garbage bag. It had a sweet yeasty smell almost like beer. Ready to dry in the sun!!
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