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What’s Bokashi got to do with lunch?

Today we had fresh homemade pasta. For the first time ever! (Thanks Jamie Oliver…) Not only was the pasta fabulous, it was astonishingly simple. 400g of flour on the bench, 4 eggs cracked into a well in the flour, mix and stir and knead. Grind through the benchtop machine. Ready! But the second best thingContinue reading “What’s Bokashi got to do with lunch?”

Bokashi in Motueka

…and where the hell is Motueka, you ask? Ask any kiwi, they’ll tell you. It’s a great little town on the top end of the South Island of New Zealand. A paradise really, with a fantastic coast, laid back lifestyle and nice climate. When I was a kid I had a friend who always wentContinue reading “Bokashi in Motueka”

Can bacteria juice save the world?

Not my headline but I wish it was. A truly excellent blog by Holly Jean Buck from October 2008 — well worth reading if you’re in the least interested in Bokashi, in EM, in the ecological future of our planet. Read it here on “The Walrus”, which bills itself as Canada’s best magazine. Holly JeanContinue reading “Can bacteria juice save the world?”

Bokashi on base in Okinawa

Sometimes there’s an unexpected twist in the tail. I clicked on this link expecting to find a classic Bokashi tale — how Bokashi was discovered inadvertently by Professor Teruo Higa in Okinawa in the early 1980s and has since spread to virtually every corner of the globe. Still on a smallish scale, but the messageContinue reading “Bokashi on base in Okinawa”

A Los Angeles apartment-dweller’s adventures with Bokashi composting

I know there’s a lot of people who live in apartments and would love to get into Bokashi composting but don’t know quite how to get started or if it would be the right thing for them. Here’s a woman in LA who does a great blog on Bokashi, she explains all the ins andContinue reading “A Los Angeles apartment-dweller’s adventures with Bokashi composting”

A kindred soul in the Bokashi world

You get into a lot of interesting conversations when you bring up the subject of Bokashi. I have to admit I often feel like a bit of a nerd, but the subject of taking care of our soil and our waste and our gardens is relevant as hell so often I just dive on inContinue reading “A kindred soul in the Bokashi world”

All those damn coffee grinds

Well, I guess we all drink more coffee than we’d like to admit to. Personally I’m a prezzo drinker. A plunger. Or a whatever you call it wherever you are. The coffee is of course great. And needed. But those damn grinds! For years I’ve been tipping them down the sink. Cringing each time becauseContinue reading “All those damn coffee grinds”

The art of digging

Here in Sweden the ground is frozen half the year. Which doesn’t necessarily make life easy when it comes to gardening. Or much else for that matter. When it comes to Bokashi, we store ours up in barrels for the spring. Some goes straight into the insulated compost but most we put on stock —Continue reading “The art of digging”

Indoor gardening at its best!

We buy sunflower seeds in big sacks to feed the birds in winter, the birds love them and I guess that means they hold a lot of energy. What I didn’t know was that you could get sunflower seeds to shoot indoors and that they TASTE GREAT!!! OK, we’re a bit deprived of green stuffContinue reading “Indoor gardening at its best!”

Saving Bokashi for the spring

It doesn’t look like much and it isn’t. A plastic storage box from the local department store. It is however airtight. And it is packed full with Bokashi compost. 70 litres in fact. Which is the contents of the last four Bokashi bins we’ve filled in the kitchen (they compact a bit over time). It willContinue reading “Saving Bokashi for the spring”