In this video, I’d like to show I turn the Bokashi-pickled kitchen waste into fertilized soil. This is the second step of the whole process:

1. Pickle Kitchen Waste with Bokashi bran for 2 weeks,
2. Bury into or pile on to the native soil for 4 to 6 weeks
3. Fertilized soil or compost. Apply it to plants or plant on top of it.

Hope you enjoy the video!

Bokashi compost consists of two steps: 1. Pickling the kitchen wastes with Bokashi bran, 2. Mix or bury them into native soil to complete the composting process. For the second step, instead of digging a hole and burying them into the hole, I used a hollowed up bucket to build up the compost so I can use them directly to fertilize plants. This was called the “Soil Maker” technique by some experts. Well, I got a big surprise when I open up the Soil Maker bucket at the end of the 2nd stage. Check out the video: Be forewarned that you probably don’t want to watch this while eating.

It was all crawling with some kind of worms, maggots, or larvaes. They are called Black Soldier Fly larvaes, I later found out that they’re beneficial bugs, believe it or not. People actually harvest them to feed the chickens, ducks and birds. Very interesting and gross. I never intended to grow them but they showed up and ate up half of the pickled Bokashi kitchen waste.

I learned that things don’t always turn out to be what you expected. If that happened, you may learn something from it.

As I mentioned before, I practice Bokashi composting at home. The key benefits of Bokashi composting:
1. It doesn’t stink: The traditional compost can easily go stinky and attract gnats and flies if not properly aerated or turned.
2. Almost all kitchen wastes can be composted: Yes, add your fish, meats and other protein-rich materials, which traditional compost won’t do without being taken over by an army of critters.
3. The compost process is relatively fast: takes 2 weeks to “pickle” or for the Kokashi bacterial to propagate and another month for the 2nd phase of breakdown in the soil – about a 1 1/2 month effort. The traditional composting could take as long as a year.
4. You can compost kitchen wastes incrementally in small batches like in a typical urban home. The traditional compost requires a big batch of 3’x3’x3′ critical mass to be effective.
5. It can be used to feed your vermicompost (worm compost). Worms devour them. But it needs to fed in small amount and allows it to sit in the corner of the worm bin for the acidity level to go down a bit before worms would work on them.

Nothing is more exciting for me to see a big chunk of our family garbage not go into the landfill but turn into some kind of vibrant, rich fertilizer for my garden which in turn feed my family. All is done with a little help from the microbes in the Bokashi bran! It’ a win-win for everyone. I encourage you all to give it a try.

Now you’re all pumped up and ready to take some actions! The next question:
How do you do Bokashi compost? Here’s a video how I do it:

To give the proper credit, I learned a lot from other websites and Youtube videos as follows:
1. Prokashi.com and his video channel.
2. Bokashi Videos – no new updates.

Where to buy your Prokashi bran?
1. Amazon.com
2. Prokashi.com.
3. Do It Yourself. See my video.