Thanks for visiting. If this is your first time here, you can find information about bokashi in the top sections or on my website. If you have a question about bokashi or composting in general, send me an email and I’ll blog my response.
Feedback is always appreciated.
Here’s a video about bokashi made in the summer of 2008:
I track tweets about bokashi and if I reply to one of your tweets, I do so as a public service. Instead of following me, subscribe to the RSS feed of this blog as most of what I write about bokashi will be here anyway.
Found this today in my moderated comments section:
I read similar article also named About, and it was completely different. Personally, I agree with you more, because this article makes a little bit more sense for me
Yeah, right. Nice try “Daniel” of flowers mybestkeptbeautysecrets net
“I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Changing telco providers – how to get in touch with me., but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.”
24.185.91.42
2007-07-02 13:27:10
http://www.bokashiman.com/2007/03/a blog entry [same as above]
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Hey! My blog was mentioned in a forum post. But when I visit the site, I see a spam ad for [insert drug here] with no reference to my blog of course. How do they do that?
All other topics in all categories were spam too. Obviously they set up the forum for that purpose.
I cannot find the forum URL in other site stats programs I am using.
This is the way my blog looks in Internet Explorer 6.0:
I get some kind of validation error:
Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 623 it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified Character Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and the character encoding indication. “The error was: utf8 “xBB” does not map to Unicode”
that I cannot figure out how to fix.
In trying to solve this, I have
1) Disabled all plugins
2) Removed all widgets
3) Written the theme author
That’s why there is a note that says “This blog looks great with Firefox.” in the top right column.
As it appears that many site visitors are using IE, I thought I would attempt to get it fixed.
Melor binti Mohd Daud from Perak, Malaysia started a blog – Bokashi Farmer – on WordPress and links to this blog, Susan‘s article about me on her own blog and an article on Path to Freedom that I commented on a while back.
This last one is not a WP plugin. You can see it in the “Extras” section of the left column. Spam Poison
[Spam Poison] will redirect email harvesting bots to trap sites that will feed it with an almost infinite loop of dynamically generated fake email addresses, mostly on known spammer owned domains! This will render their harvested lists pratically useless and of no commercial value.
[Added 08Apr07 0527] Again, this is not a plugin: I use gmail to filter my own domain emails.
email@mydomain.com is forwarded to email@gmail.com then sent by gmail to a second mydomain email address. Gmail deletes all spam after thirty days so I have time to check for mistakes. Since I use more than one email address for this purpose, gmail is protecting me from receiving 500 – 700 spam emails a month.
“Having just moved into a new unit… we have been spending a lot of time debating what sort of compost bin to get….[and] had heard good things about the Bokashi composting bucket
“Apple pieces are promising carriers for probiotic bacteria and may be used in the production of probiotic fermented milk and/or other food products, as well as in the prolongation of their shelf-life,” wrote lead author Yiannis Kourkoutas
Vertical Veg supports food growing in containers and tiny spaces: ideas, inspiration and practical advice.
If you want to grow food successfully in containers, nurturing soil life can make a huge difference. Worm compost, for example, is full of microbes and life. Add it to your containers and you will get more vigorous growth, and far fewer pest and disease problems. Discovering this, was the biggest turning point in my growing (more important, even, than self watering containers), transforming sporadic successes into something more consistent.
Why is soil life important?
Healthy organic soil in the natural world supports a web of life including bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes as well as larger creatures like worms and slugs. These organisms play a vital role in the life of plants. They break down organic matter to make the nutrients available for plant roots. They condition the soil and create air spaces and tunnels in it – improving aeration and drainage. And they compete with other more harmful organisms in the soil, ones that will damage your plants if left unchecked.
Soil life is complex – so the above is just my attempt to summarise some of the main benefits you can expect when you add life to your containers!
Why do you need to add life to containers?
Most commercial composts that we buy are sterilised and low in microbial life. So is municipal compost (it has to be made at hot temperatures to kill pathogens, killing much of the beneficial life, too). So if you want life in your containers – and to mimic soil in the natural world – you need to add it.
1. Worm compost
2. Homemade compost
3. Leaf mould
4. Manure
5. Bokashi
Bokashi is Japanese method of composting food quickly in a tightly sealed bucket. Benefits of bokashi are that you can add almost any food (even meat), it works quickly, can be done in a very small space, and doesn’t smell (much). The drawbacks are that you need to buy bokashi bran for it to work, and the pickled product is not as versatile as worm compost. But you can add it to the bottom of containers to add both organic matter and microorganisms.
Mix about 10 – 20% into the compost in the bottom third of a container.
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