Preventing Apocalypse

To understand the principles of organic gardening you must understand this;  You do not grow plants You may have vegetable plants growing, but you do not grow vegetables. You may have fruit trees but you do not grow fruit. Without a gardener, nature will do it's thing.  A seed would fall, water will rain down and the seed will sprout and grow into a plant that will produce fruit that contains seeds that will fall to the ground. the pant will die and fall to the ground; bacteria and fungi break the plant down and feed the soil where the seeds are and the cycle repeats. Healthy plants come from healthy soils. An organic gardener is a steward of the soil. When the soil is active and full of life, the soil biology will grow healthy plants because the soil biology relies on plant roots for survival. They will enter into an exchange with the plants for what the plant needs and in return the plant exudes sugars and carbohydrates. The microbes in the soil excrete broken down micro and...

You can add anything and everything to a bokashi bin, except liquids.  It can take fruit, vegetables, meat, dairy, fish, coffee grounds, even paper. When you get a new bokashi bucket you will also get a masher to squash the bokashi down (this is very important) and either a spray bottle of effective micro-organisms (EM) or a bokashi bran made of food industry waste product that is soaked in the EM.  With each addition to the bin, you need to squash it down with the masher. Crush it into the previous layer. Squeeze out as much air as possible.  Air is the great enemy of bokashi.  Air will create a foul-smelling, dry-retching inducing, maggot-infested hell-hole that is not usable unless you wish to have your garden infested with blow-flies and rats. ​ Because air is the enemy of bokashi, it's best not to add to the bin too often. It's best to store scraps in the kitchen and empty it once a week or if there's a hint of a smell brewing. In my first bokashi attempt I made...