Bokashi Composting
Scraps to Soil in Weeks
by Adam Footer
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Pub Date Jan 01 2014 | Archive Date May 02 2014
Description
Bokashi is Japanese for "fermented organic matter." Bokashi composting is a safe, quick, and convenient way to compost in your kitchen, garage, or apartment, using a specific group of microorganisms to anaerobically ferment all food waste (including meat and dairy). Since the process takes place in a closed system, insects and smell are controlled, making it ideal for urban or business settings. The process is very fast, with compost usually ready to be integrated into your soil or garden in around two weeks.
While bokashi has enjoyed great popularity in many parts of the world, it is still relatively unknown in North America. From scraps to soil, Bokashi Composting is the complete, step-by-step, do-it-yourself guide to this amazing process, with comprehensive information covering:
Background - the history, development and scientific basis of the techniqueGetting started - composting with commercially available products or homemade systemsMaking your own - system plans and bokashi bran recipes using common materials and locally sourced ingredientsGrowing - improving your soil with fermented compost and bokashi juice.This essential guide is a must-read for gardeners, homeowners, apartment dwellers, traditional composters, and anyone who wants a safe, simple, and convenient way to keep kitchen waste out of the landfill.
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
I have to thank you for writing this book Adam - FINALLY we have a well-researched, comprehensive guide to bokashi composting. I've already changed a few of my techniques based on your advice and my bokashi is decomposing faster as a result. Your information is thorough and your writing style is clear and refreshingly humble. You've really created THE step-by-step guide for making bokashi, and people lucky enough to pick up this book will have created a beautiful microbial inoculant for their gardens and houseplants in no time.
---Phil Nauta, www.SmilingGardener.com, author of Building Soils Naturally
As we reach our teens in the 21st Century, it’s clear that we must explore more and newer ways of reducing our waste output. We have already achieved great reductions in what enters urban landfill sites, and more efficient recycling. But what can we do in our own homes – in our urban condos and apartment buildings? In this upbeat, informative book, Adam Footer reveals the Bokashi composting option, and shows us how to further reduce our food waste, turning it back into the Earth and enriching the soil as we do. His explanation of bacterial culturing is clear and simply stated. Whether you purchase a home Bokashi kit or build your own, following Footer’s foolproof instructions, this is the manual for you.---Mark Macdonald, West Coast Seeds
Marketing Plan
· First book to focus specifically on Bokashi composting
· Bokashi composting is quicker, cleaner and easier
· It is uses an anerobic fermentation method to turn food waste into soil
· This all takes place in a container small enough to fit under your kitchen sink
· Benefits of bokashi are that is faster, requires no mixing of greens and browns, all food can be composted including meat and dairy, there is no production of greenhouse gases
· Book covers the history of Bokashi composting; the discovery of essential mircroorganisms; the science behind Bokashi composting; various uses for bokashi including bokashi powder and bokashi leachate
· A practical guide that includes how readers can make their own bokashi powder, how to create their own bokashi container and how to improve the nutritional value of fermented waste with the addition of fish meal or chicken manure
· As the name suggests, this type of composting originated in Korea and has become widespread in Japan and elsewhere in Asia
· The author has been studying bokashi composting for three years and runs bokashicomposting.com website
· Audience includes: environmentally conscious homeowners/apartment dwellers/homesteaders, permaculturalists, urban farmers, municipalities investigating composting options
· Coop available
· Feature offered to: Permaculture Magazine, Backhome
· Excerpts pitched to Mother Earth News, Urban Farm, Organic Gardening, Sunset Magazine
· Author will promote book on his website www.bokashicomposting.com and at events such as San Diego Permaculture Convergence
· Promotion on New Society Publishers Facebook page with book announcement and contest, promotion on @NewSocietyPub Twitter
· Simultaneous ebook release and marketing
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780865717527 |
| PRICE | $16.95 (USD) |
