#HAPPY FARMER BOKASHI COMPOSTING KIT ACTIVATOR#

Add extra Bokashi Activator Mix when adding fish, meat, egg or cheese or egg. Add 2 inches of compost then a handful of Bokashi Activator Mix.Choose a warm spot without direct sun spot under your kitchen bench, in your laundry or garage or in the shade in the garden.

#HAPPY FARMER BOKASHI COMPOSTING KIT HOW TO#

Source: Wastebusters NZ How to set up a Bokashi Bin? This organic waste contributes carbon, think brown, dry and little moisture and nitrogen such as: Meat in bokashi and citrus including peel into compost as they can harm the Nitrogen rich organic waste that is often fresh and moist including:Ĭoffee grounds, loose tea and tea bags (without plastic) and eggshells. Use the nutrient-rich Vermicast on the second layer of the farm, on your garden beds. Use the collected worm tea from the worm farm tap, dilute 1/10 with water as a nutrient-rich fertiliser.Worms like to be in a cool dark home so find a piece of old wool carpet or a piece of a wool blanket, dampen and use as a cover.Or you can start with 1000 (250g) worms for one household. Add worms, worms will eat about half their weight daily so you may want to calculate how much food waste you need to process.Begin with adding a layer of damp bedding shredded cardboard or paper, hay or coconut fibre work well. Set up your purchased or homemade worm farm, most will have 2-3 layers and a lid.Find a spot out of the sun that offers a cool, shady aspect but is nearby to your kitchen such as a garage, a bench in a large kitchen, a laundry or next to a shed to place your worm farm.Animal manure (cow, sheep, horse, not dog or.Grounds, loose tea and tea bags (without plastic) and eggshells. Waste that is often fresh and moist including: Dried out or “browned-off” off grass clippings.Paper and cardboard (tear into small pieces and wet before adding).Add a layer of ‘browns’ and then layer like a sandwich 70% brown, 30% ‘greens’Ĭarbon, think brown, dry and little moisture and nitrogen such as:.

Create a ground layer with small sticks to allow air to flow.You may choose to use one compost bin or a two or three side by side system to move compost as it breaks down. Place the compost bin directly on the earth so worms can work their magic from the soil.Choose a sunny spot, easily accessible from your house.Globally an estimated 1/3 of food produced is wasted, it is important we make sure this food breaks down naturally.Ĭompost 3 bin Compost. *In New Zealand each year an estimated 57,398 tonnes of food goes to landfill, many developed countries have extremely high rates of food waste to landfill.Some landfills capture Methane but not all. Organic waste rotting without sufficient air ‘anaerobically’ produces Methane gas (CH4), a dangerous Greenhouse gas, Methane contributes to global warming by trapping heat in the atmosphere at a rate of 25 times more than Carbon Dioxide (CO2).Liquid ‘leachate’ from the decomposing waste pools at the bottom of the landfill on the plastic lining to stops it from entering waterways, it must be collected and treated at waste facilities.When food waste or garden waste is put into landfill it is sealed creating a vacuum where it cannot break down effectively because compost requires air to break down.We discuss three ways to efficiently support the breakdown of food waste at home. When composting food, we need to make sure we have a healthy mix of organic waste, the two groups are termed ‘green’ such as food scraps and fresh grass clippings and ‘brown’ waste such as dried leaves and cardboard/paper but no shiny paper of magazines. Food scraps and garden waste such as grass clipping and leaves can be turned into a valuable resource, that can be used to help you grow nutrient dense food or used to feed your household plants. Three key ways of breaking down organic material are by using a simple compost bin, a worm farm or a Bokashi system, all discussed in detail below. The food we don’t eat (scraps and leftovers) can breakdown and become gold for growing new plants. Composting: From garden to table and back to the garden.įood and garden waste, as well as paper and cardboard, can make great nutrient-rich soil for your garden when allowed to rot down effectively.

Happy farmer bokashi composting kit