Day 7 - Bokashi Stage 2 - Seal your First Bucket
- Lanie Bokashi
- Nov 24, 2019
- 2 min read
Updated: Aug 7, 2020
Yey! This is the moment we are waiting for! Who gets excited over a bucket full of veggie and fruit scraps? Hey, only a rare breed of Bokashi Enthusiasts and Advocates like us!
What to prepare:
• Masking tape
• Markers
• A camera ( aha! Yes a camera)
What to do
• Seal your bucket around the lid and mouth
• Label it with today's date and then "DO NOT OPEN for 2 weeks"
• Take a selfie with your full bucket - get a chance to win a special prize for the best full bucket selfie photo of the month!
We are basically making KIMCHI or ATCHARA out of our veggie / fruit scraps
Demo - How to "Lockdown" your First Balde for Stage 2 Fermentation
This video is from the kitchen of a premiere diver's resort in Anilao Batangas.
Why are we doing this?
Fermenting the food scraps gives our PETS - the beneficial microorganisms the right environment and enough "food" for them to proliferate and reproduce.
Fermenting breaks down the cell walls of the veggie and fruit scraps
Fermenting kills PATHOGGENS in 2 ways - the acidity of the ferment and the beneficial microorganisms proliferating in it. Talk about overcoming evil with good
Segregating and Compacting our food waste in a bucket - reduces its volume significantly. A 3 bucket full of "uncompressed" veggie scraps can be compressed
into 1 bucket. It also reduces exposure to air - which again, our pets- the beneficial microorganisms do not like.
Reduces carbon and methane emission by as
much as 95%. Reduces EYE SORE! A bucket full of veggie scraps looks better than 2 sacks of rotting veggie scraps.
If your bucket is not FULL Yet - then go back to:
If you are getting impatient : Read this!
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