The other morning, I was suprised to see a little Zebby sitting in my hanging orchid pot. Well, sitting and poking around in it. Later that afternoon she was gone. I was watering the plants and the seed was down and all the little Zebra were pecking around. I reached up into the orchid pot to confirm my suspicions ...
This is when our diverted food-waste turns back into the soil, making best use of the other-wise wasted nutrients we usually let rot in our trash.
STEP 2 Okay, so you've followed the above steps and now your Bokashi bucket is full of non-wasted-food-waste. Nice! Technically, the food at the bottom of the top bucket (the food you first put in) has probably been fermenting for weeks now! I took me around a month to fill my bucket. But the food…
For this project, I opted NOT to buy a commercial Bokashi system. Instead, I used: TWO 5-gallon buckets with ONE fitted lid.
WHAT GOES IN THE BUCKET? Fruits and Veggies! Peels, rinds, skins, cores (cut down to small size) etc.Old rice, spent coffee/teaOld bread, crusts (I'll throw away anything that's moldy though, we don't want competition for the EM-1)Egg shells, eggsMeat scraps, fish, bone pieces (small pieces)Cheese rindsBASICALLY ALL FOOD WASTE except what's listed below. What does…
Continue reading ➞ WHAT CAN I PUT IN THE BOKASHI BUCKET? + WHAT CAN I DO WITH BOKASHI TEA?
This process will help me to divert my kitchen waste to my garden, sequestering the nutrients and carbon rather than letting them rot out in a landfill, producing harmful gasses instead. My garden will get some top-notch compost!! ORGANIC GARDENING for the WIN! And who doesn't LOVE a LIVING science project?!?
Wanted to post this to my Instagram, but it's a secret house-warming gift for my cousin. I'm pretty sure she doesn't check on my page here often, so I don't think I'll ruin the surprise by posting it here. Our Popo, or Grandmother, used to grow these in her yard for lei making. Paired with…
#OrchidSeeds Came out after running this morning to an open (partially) seed pod! In this video, I open it up all the way and you can see the MILLIONS of seeds contained within. How ever, orchids seeds are naked and created without their own nutrition or defense mechanism. They are meant to blow around the…
When I was growing up, my Popo grew orchids. On one side of the house were the giant yellow Oncidium "Popcorn" orchids. On the other side was the screen house with numerous Cattleya and Anthurium. She hung old nylon stockings full of chicken manure in the screen house for fertilizing. The popcorn flowers were grown…
