BOKASHI by Run's

WHAT IS BOKASHI ?
Bokashi from Japanese means:
Fermented organic material
Bokashi uses the break down of
organic material by anaerobic (no air)
bacteria.
No air = no oxidation = no foul odour.

Bokashi can be used in
gardening
to improve soil quality:

From soil like this:

Add bokashi to make better soil like this.

You can do
it yourself
very easily
with all your
waste food
and improve
your garden.

Using bokashi this garden improved in 4 months.

Now (August 2013)

Bokashi can be used as an
anti oxidant to stop rust:

Anti-oxidant
Bokashi juice is a powerfull anti-rust agent

How do we make
bokashi?

Food scraps are used to make bokashi

What do we need to make bokashi?
2 buckets

Organic material: food scraps,
vegetable and fruit peel
You should
not use
plastic glass
or metal

Bokashi
starter
(made
with
rice or
wheat
bran and
EMAS.)

Better to
cut
scraps
into
little
pieces.

How to make bokashi?
1 layer of
organic
scraps
1 layer of
bokashi
starter
press

And close
to make
air tight

How do we used
bokashi?

Garden liquid fertilizer

Dilute this bokashi juice
at 0.5% with water.
5 ml in 1 litre of water
Used to water
your garden.

Every day,
remove the bokashi juice

Garden fertilizer
After few
days,
bokashi
will not
produce
juice
anymore.
You can
put it
in your
garden
or give it to
somebody
who has a
garden.

Mix bokashi with soil
and cover.
You should wait 1
month to plant
nearby: new bokashi
is very acidic.

And after few months the soil quality will
improve:

And we can help to make less
rubbish...

And a beautiful garden:

Contact:
Didier Maraval
kk.em.didier@gmail.com

Credits:
Mr Teruo Higa for discovering EM
Mrs Goto Hiroko and Brenda Wright for introducing me to EM.
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