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I’m happy and relieved to announce that the domain name http://www.greatday.ca is back on the web, which eliminates the need for this information to be on the Hello page:
21Oct09 – My domain www.greatday.ca is no longer working. As a result, all emails to aap AT greatday DOT ca and bokashi AT greatday DOT ca are being returned as undeliverable. Send all email inquiries to greatday180 AT gmail DOT com My new website can be found at http://www.greatday18.ca
What surprises me is that my email news alerts from Google and Yahoo were never canceled despite 4 four months of being returned undeliverable. Unfortunately, people are more responsive to bounced emails and I of know at least one sale lost because I was unreachable. There were probably more.:-(
However, I could still be found by other means:
Google my name [The Facebook profile is *not* me! ]
In this article from the Kamloops Daily News, Deanna Hurstfield is looking to start a bokashi composting network where she lives. It has a good overview of the process.
I need to respond to these lines in the article:
Bokashi seems to offer many advantages, Hurstfield said. The catch? It’s not cheap.
There are bokashi kits available through Internet dealers, she said. The costs of those systems appear to run at about $20 to $30 a month for all the supplies, substrates and microbe mixes.
Here are the costs for the first year of bokashi composting using my system:
Two bokashi buckets:
$85
4 x 1Kg Bokashi*:
$30
Total
$115
Monthly cost:
$9.58
*[two 1Kg bags are included with the bokashi kits]
In the second year or, if you have your own buckets as Deanna does, all you need is the bokashi: $60
Monthly cost: $5
I’ve been generous on the amount of bokashi you need for a year. Although I say that a 1Kg bag of bokashi will last 2 – 4 months, I’ve had customers come back for a second bag after 6 or 9 months, even a year later. Recently, a small office re-ordered a bag of bokashi nearly two an a half years after their first purchase!
While my competitor’s prices probably do come close the article’s monthly estimate for the first year, the cost in the second year is much lower.
"If we can find a microbiologist who can help us figure out what is in there, we can cut the costs even more," she said.
I have neverhidden how to make your ownbokashi which will lower your costs even more. I only ask that you buy the Terra Biosa Friendly Microbes [aka EM] from me.:-)
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