Hey everyone. How's it going? Kevin here from Epic Gardening and we're going to be talking

again with Stephen Cornette of Nature's Always Right. We're talking about a topic I

believe I've mentioned once or twice here on the podcast before and that would be the

Boccashi method of composting so it's something that is really effective if you're

let's say an apartment gardener or a smaller scale gardener because you can sort of use it as a way to pre-compost a lot of your food scraps and then have them break down really rapidly in a normal compost bin or as you're going to learn in today's episode there are a lot of different ways that you can then use that Bokashi compost.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to let Stephen come in and give you guys just a brief overview if you're not familiar with the method of exactly

what's happening in the Bokashi composting method but then what's a little bit

more interesting is how he's decided to work Bokashi compost into his garden.

So first I'll describe kind of the two differences here.

So you've got the Bocashi compost,

then you have the Bocashi grain itself.

So the Bocashi grain, it's usually, it could be spent grain from leftover beer waste.

It could be wheat bran, some sort of basically like a dried carbohydrate grain is usually what is used and what

they do with that they inoculate that with EM1 effective microorganisms 1 you

guys can look that up online it's a fantastic product

which has lactobisylus which I kind of mentioned in our Korean natural farming

podcast episode before so it's very similar to that so you can actually make it on your

own like I described in the previous episode. But EM1 has some other elements in

it as well that make it very powerful. So it's basically you're locking in these anaerobic

good microbes into the bran and then you have this stored these stored

microorganisms that we can then use for helping us to compost.

So now moving on to Bokashi composting, this is an anaerobic type of composting and anaerobic means lacking or without oxygen.

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