I'm starting a bokashi compost. A couple questions:
Any advice on it?
Does this mean I'm cheating on fungi?
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Make sure the is no air contact on the surface.
Of the bokashi bran?
When filling the bucket every couple inches of scrapes sprinkle some bran. The tricky part is just like sauerkraut you have to make sure air does not make contact with the scraps or mold will form. What you want to see is just a white “mold” form. You can use a plastic bag and some kind of weight. I got tired of that and I bought one of those lids for a five gallon bucket that has rubber sides creating an air tight seal.
Bokashi seems unnecessary, and appears to require purchases, at least initially.
The Humanure Handbook is by far the best guide to composting out there. We've been doing hot composting as outlined in it for 7 years now.
Cool thing is, it's available for free online. I found it so useful and informative that I've bought several copies over the years to give out to friends and family.
Check it out: https://humanurehandbook.com/contents.html
Thanks a lot
Basically bokashi is just pickling. Predigesting the scrapes making it easily digestible for the soil organisms. Simple process, pickle food scrapes then trench compost.
The real value of it is the funky smelling EM and anarobe rich liquid you get out of it. But it's also useful to break down stuff that's hard to compost conventionally. Use it 1000 to 1 with filtered water in the garden and it's great for innoculating your biochar too. You can use EM on its own but your not getting the anarobic bacteria with it and plants with soil that have both having had the 'bad guys' retasked do better as they now have more microbes working in their favour.
You still have to be a little careful with it though use it too strongly and it can kill plants and seedlings, dont ask me how I know that 😂