What's up everyone? Welcome back to the podcast. Today we're going to cover using

bocashi compost in your raised beds. Now for those of you who are unaware

Bococashi compost is basically just food scraps that you sprinkled

Bokashi bran on.

And if you're wondering what Bokashi means,

then you're not alone.

I'm sure a lot of people out there are unfamiliar.

Basically, it is an inoculated wheat bran, and it's been inoculated with lactic acid

bacteria which has been dried out and so when they dry out they sporeulate to protect

themselves and when you throw them back on kitchen scraps they then proliferate and start to break it down.

It is an anaerobic process so most compost is a aerobic process or with oxygen.

Anaerobic is without oxygen, but you can go ahead and sprinkle just the bran onto your raised bed if you want,

in between the mulch layer and the soil surface, and it's saffrophitic, which means it's going to start eating away at that mulch layer from the bottom up and really starting to build that back to eat any style approach to the raised bed where you have a mulch layer on top that starts to build the soil as the mulch

starts to decompose but what the bocashi will do is it will speed that up a little bit which is kind of nice.

Now you can also of course just throw your bocashi food scraps into your garden.

What I like to do if I do this is I spread them out just a little bit.

You're going to find that they break down insanely fast, much faster than just burying random food scraps in your garden

that aren't inoculated with Bokashi brand and certainly even faster than a

normal compost is going to break down. You know, it's crazy how fast it works.

Actually, my friend Mark over at Self-Sufficient Me

did an experiment where he buried food scraps

without Bokashi.

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