bokashi bran

[its hilly]

I'm probably on the wrong thread and out of date, but has anyone used this in their compost? And if so did it make any difference to the plants?

[cardiffsteve]

Is it a new breakfast cereal?

[VirginVegGrower]

For hens, yes it's considered special K and added to yoghurt - they love it. We feed it to ours and use it on their bedding which all gets composted through poo and poo bedding. It acts as an accelerator and damned good it is too. Some use it with those wormery things but ours just goes into an ordinary compost bin. You can get it from Omlet and there is some blurb on there about it. £4 a bag is what we pay but you can get it in larger bags. If I had the empty packet I could give you the website but until we go to Banbury again I can't - we store it in a snap lock. Hope this helps!

[grannymem]

We use it with a bin for composting ALL kitchen scraps, including cooked food, left over fat, small bones etc. Once the small bin is full it's left in the garage for a couple of weeks and then contents added to the compost. The liquid it produces can be diluted and used as plant food and the addition to the compost bin does seem to speed things up.
And despite the addition of egg shells, cooked food, meat etc it doesn't smell unpleasant.
The only downside seems to be the high cost of the bran.

[GYOMalcolm]

Wasted in compost I'm afraid. The bran contains bacteria which ferment "fresh" food, and only do it in an airtight environment. Too much air and not enough food value left in compost.