We well and truly have winter here now. No garden in sight, even the fence has gone under. Christmas has been a start-to-finish snow storm, and today we tried to shovel ourselves out of the house and open up channels to the wood sheds, the outdoor laundry shed, the bokashi workshop. Dig out the car,Continue reading “Nothing but snow”
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Pelle’s Bokashi buckets — in Czechoslovakia
Pelle is a Swede living in Czechoslovakia. Home for the time being is the farm where he lives with his wife and her family — ducks, geese, hens, fish, sheep and a dam or two. The sheep and hens are happily eating Bokashi these days — that’s right, kitchen scraps that have been fermented inContinue reading “Pelle’s Bokashi buckets — in Czechoslovakia”
Bokashi in Shangri-La!
Just the word Shangri-La conjures up some long-lost dreams of paradise, but in real life its a hotel chain in Malaysia. Which is working hard with EM and Bokashi to improve its environmental efforts. Recently the chain’s Tanung Aru hotel resort and spa on Kotakinabalu (yes, I know this is turning into a hide-and-seek geographyContinue reading “Bokashi in Shangri-La!”
Bokashi campaign in Yorkshire
Yorkshire Council is doing it’s bit to help locals get their food waste back into the soil where it belongs. The less food waste going to landfill the better — for everyone. The deal in the council’s East Riding is that local homeowners get a subsidy on wormeries, kitchen caddies, home composters and bokashiContinue reading “Bokashi campaign in Yorkshire”
Bokashiworld: Perak in Malaysia
Dr Mah, head of health, local government, consumer, environment, transport and non-Islamic affairs Now we’re off to Malaysia to check out a Bokashi story in Perak. First stop, admittedly, was the atlas. I’ve travelled through Malaysia a couple of times but can’t say my geography is any better for that. Turns out that it’s onContinue reading “Bokashiworld: Perak in Malaysia”
Bokashi in Dubai
Time for a complete change of subject when it comes to Dubai. You won’t read a word here about palm tree islands and financial dreams gone awry. This is Bokashiworld! So it turns out that in Dubai there’s a couple of commited women starting up a Bokashi business. Changing the way people see their rubbishContinue reading “Bokashi in Dubai”
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