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”
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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”
Bokashi world: North Yorkshire
Bokashi is big in the UK, and really well supported by local councils throughout the country. If you do a google search on bokashi +council +site:uk you’ll turn up a huge amount of hits; I got 1,730 references to what councils are doing in terms of Bokashi. And that’s in the UK alone. North YorkshireContinue reading “Bokashi world: North Yorkshire”
Bokashi world: Gisborne, NZ
Here’s a nice down-to-earth confirmation that Bokashi is A Good Thing. On one of my random web searches I just turned up a letter-to-the-editor written last month to a local newspaper in Gisborne, which is a lovely town in the North Island of New Zealand. If you enjoy a bottle of NZ chardonnay there’s a Continue reading “Bokashi world: Gisborne, NZ”
Bokashi and the carbon battle
We’re all in it together one way or another. The great carbon battle. The sources of the problem are of course many. And one of them, inocuous as it may seem, is actually our food waste. The thing is food rots when your back is turned. Rotting food lets off a lot of carbon dioxideContinue reading “Bokashi and the carbon battle”
What to do with your Bokashi when you live in a flat
Bokashi works just fine in an apartment, you fill your bucket under the kitchen sink just like anyone else. But every two or three weeks you’ll have a fully fermented bucket on your hands and the question is what to do about it then. I thought this thread was interesting for just that reason, aContinue reading “What to do with your Bokashi when you live in a flat”
Where is Bokashi hot?
Google has a trend meter where you can type in a word and see where the hotspots are in the world. So of course I typed in “bokashi” to see what would turn up. Bokashi is a Japanese word but it’s used widely around the globe as the name for, well, Bokashi. As in household fermentingContinue reading “Where is Bokashi hot?”
Bokashi 1-2-3
The thing with Bokashi is that it’s dead easy. The whole concept seems really strange and different at first but when you start doing it you can’t help thinking what’s the big deal. Because there is none, big deal that is. Basically you just toss your kitchen waste in a different bin to what youContinue reading “Bokashi 1-2-3”
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