Bokashi

[Queen bee]

Who has experience with bokashi Hands up !
I got recipe for EM.(effective microorganisms) on line,how to make bokashi bran all on you tube. Am raring to go but price of bins is astronomical and although I could make my own but am planning to set up 40 people with them. Seems like a very effective way of dealing with food waste.
Any thoughts ?

[oldie]

There are a few other threads on Bokashi. Mixed opinions if I remember correctly. Try running a search.

[Alison]

There are quite a few of us on here who have bokashi bins, I got mine on offer on t'internet about 5 years ago. You really need two so that you can be filling one while the other one is festering (or whatever they do) before you can use it - you are supposed to leave it a couple of weeks but it usually takes me about 3 months to fill a bin (a lot of people fill then a lot quicker but I only put stuff in that I can't put in the wormery / compost heap) so I leave the old one full until then and either bury it in the compost heap in winter or in the spring I'll put it in the bean trench.

I think you can make them but you need to make sure that they are properly airtight with a tap to drain off the liquor (if you don't drain then they can stink!) but whatever you do, it'll add up to a bit of you're wanting that many.

[Queen bee]

thanks will do