https://www.compostguy.com/bokashi/bokashi-experiment-02-15-08/ Composting, Gardening, Sustainable Living Thu, 11 May 2023 13:49:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.compostguy.com/bokashi/bokashi-experiment-02-15-08/comment-page-1/#comment-15404 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:59:01 +0000 https://www.compostguy.com/bokashi/bokashi-experiment-02-15-08/#comment-15404 I just started my own bokashi bucket using a 5 gal bucket, a drain plate with a spigot and an airtight Gamma lid for ease of lid removal.
I am at 2 weeks usage and my bucket isn’t quite full.
I noticed yesterday that there is a slight garbage smell when I enter the kitchen.
How is this possible? I’m using about a cup of bokashi mix every time I add food waste.
Another thing I’m wondering about… I have been adding my coffee grinds + unbleached paper filters to my bucket (I shake the grinds out and then throw in the filter). Is it okay to do this or should I eliminate the paper filter from the bucket?
thanks!

]]> https://www.compostguy.com/bokashi/bokashi-experiment-02-15-08/comment-page-1/#comment-331 Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:44:32 +0000 https://www.compostguy.com/bokashi/bokashi-experiment-02-15-08/#comment-331 Can I suggest someone design a bokashi bucket that is a thing of beauty?
Something like the bokashi version of a Brabantia bin?
And with an more ‘snappy’, one-handed lid… those “ice cream tub” lids are a pain.
Not that I am complaining, I love Bokashi, but just as I like the earth beautiful, I like my kitchen beautiful, and I want the bokashi bin to be the object of desire that it deserves to be.
Perhaps this could harness our natural acquisitive tendencies to do good instead of harm?
Sorry if I’m shallow, but surely it can’t be a bad thing to harness my 21st century consumerist tendencies and turn them into something that helps, not harms the environment!?
I paid £60 for my pair of bokashi bins and and if I find a pair that are beautiful if a little more expensive, then I’ll pass the old ones on and thus convert more people to bokashi… sound fair!?

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