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growing on everyone hope your gardens are doing well. This is Kevin from Epic Gardening

We're going to talk about Bokashi composting today. If you've never heard of it, it is a pretty unique style of composting that you may really want to consider adding to your composting techniques.

Add it to your toolkit, it's a pretty neat technique technique and let's go ahead and get into it right now.

And so, Bocashi is a Japanese term and basically it translates to fermented organic matter.

So that is going to give you a clue as to what this method entails.

In Bokashi composting, that's what we are doing. We are more or less pickling our food waste.

To do the fermentation process, you're going to use a refused product, like something like a

bran, rice hull, dried-spent grain from a brewery, sawdust, something that's fine and granular, and you're going to inoculate it with effective

microorganisms.

Now it's mostly referred to as beneficial microbes, stuff like that. Most of the time you're just

going to buy Bocashi brand. That is going to be the way that you do it because

you're going to buy brand that's already been inoculated and then you're then you're pretty much good to go.

And so how does Bokashi composting actually work? Well what you'll do is you'll

sprinkle that Bokashi brand into either a commercial bucket that you can buy or you can just make a

DIY bucket and then you add your food waste in layers and you layer food waste

and then Bocococci brand and then food waste and then

Bococococci brand and then slowly you're going to build a bucket full of

your kitchen waste and so what you'll need to do is drain out any liquid from the

bucket so that it doesn't smell bad because this is an anaerobic process.

It is done without air and so you must pack that mixture down solidly to press out any excess air and keep an airtight lid on the container.

Now once you have a full bucket,

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