2x Bokashi bins in rotation, mostly for ground coffee from the Espresso percolator and various citrus peels. Takes around 1-2 months for it to be full, then swap the bins, empty the one that's been sitting there into a worm farm, clean it and put it back to use. I reckon the Bokashi breaks it down a bit, so the worms can process it better, together with general kitchen scraps and some browns. I'm also tinkering with adding crushed charcoal to the mix for the worms and black soldier fly larvae to inoculate it and essentially make biochar. Love mixing the vermicompost end product with different soils, create my own potting mix or use it as layer in a Hügelkultur, together with logs, branches, garden clippings (greens&browns) and cow manure.
Nice pile there!
I'm guessing this Composting Day is a (US) national thing? A quick search shows 'Learn About Composting Day', is that the one?
Please tell us more. Over here (Netherlands) we do have a 'national compost day' in March, where you can go and get compost from the municipality. Great initiative, though the quality of compost is questionable as it's the end product of whatever the municipality collected in the green bins over the year. And people put in, well, everything. So, it is definitely not a 'Learn About' day, while we could use that for sure over here in my experience.
I'll see how they feel about me recording it... I didn't really put any presenter notes in the deck so it might not be as useful. If they let me record I'll happily post it here, otherwise I'll type up some notes and links before sharing the deck so it's more actionable for folks.
Good luck and enjoy presenting! If you are willing and allowed to, could you share your full slidedeck afterwards? Or at the odd chance of it being recorded, please share the video!
Really cool that you are doing this for your local community =)
Thanks! I actually used to do presentations for a living so this is a nice chance to stretch those mental muscles again. I'm going to ask to record it, but if the attendees are leery of it I'll just record the audio and run the slide deck over the narration to share here.
Last year I had Black Soldier Fly larvae in my compost. Was pretty excited about that actually. Maybe I'll build some specific compost bin to attract them this year.
We had two Bokashi buckets but it never worked that well for us. The buckets were smelling quite bad, maybe we made some mistake. I really like the concept, but for only having a small balcony and not much space for flowers and plants, it was not worth it.
I hope it's going to go better for me. For now, I don't have any smell but if it's go wrong I will have to stop composting completely, because I don't have any outside space for compost.
How did you go, what did you use the end product for? If you're concerned about smell and don't mind a bit of extra high tech and spending some money, there are products that dehydrate kitchen scraps and grind & bake them into a granulate, such as these: https://www.treehugger.com/best-compost-machines-5187060
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