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  • From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] Rural bokashi | Paper Bokashi | Archive for the ‘Rural bokashi’ Category
  • Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 13:44:19 -0400

Rural bokashi | Paper Bokashi | Archive for the ‘Rural bokashi’ Category
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Bocashi as a type of compost (rural)
(Honduras)<http://newspaperbokashi.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/bocashi-as-a-type-of-compost-rural-honduras/>
January
9, 2011

HONDURAS – Making Bocashi
Fertilizer<http://farmertofarmerblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/making-bocashi-fertilizer.html>

… The basic recipe is to take a source of dry manure (chicken and
goat) and mix it with a source of carbon (coffee hulls) and some soil and
then start adding the extras. … three bags of ground charcoal, a bag of
rice germ, a bag of agricultural lime, a gallon of molasses, and also a bag
of finished bocashi as a starter. You mix it all together with enough water
for 50% moisture and then you mix and monitor over then next 7 days.
Essentially you have made a big pile of pickles for the earth. Not only
does the bocashi add activated minerals, but the main function is to
improve the microbial balance in the soil. It is sort of like an
acidophillus pill for the soil. …

Source: Farmer to Farmer
Blog<http://farmertofarmerblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/making-bocashi-fertilizer.html>

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compost <http://newspaperbokashi.wordpress.com/tag/bokashi-compost/>, no
expensive bran<http://newspaperbokashi.wordpress.com/tag/no-expensive-bran/>
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Natural Fertilizer. Bocashi in Central
America<http://newspaperbokashi.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/natural-fertilizer-bocashi-in-central-america/>
September
27, 2010
The soil’s second chance

One strategy to replenish and maintain soil fertility involves the creation
of bocashi. This highly effective and inexpensive natural fertiliser can be
made from readily-available materials, including manure, coffee pulp, or
rice hulls, together with yeast and molasses. These are then mixed with
healthy soil. The yeast feeds on the molasses during a 15-day fermentation
and decomposition process, aided by mixing manually twice-a-day. The
bocashi mix is then added to crops, and yields either match or improve upon
those obtained with chemical fertilisers – at a fraction of the cost.
<http://newspaperbokashi.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/centraam.jpg>

A young farmer inspects his maize crop, which has benefited from the
application of bocashi



Source: Learning not to burn – transforming land and livelihoods in Central
America <http://www.new-ag.info/focus/focusItem.php?a=390>

(Note: This is another example of “cutting the EM hype”, as the method
described is a simple farm compost recipe. It involves fermenting to avoid
putrefaction. No more, no less. In this case, using yeast.)

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fertilizer<http://newspaperbokashi.wordpress.com/tag/bocashi-fertilizer/>,
bokashi compost <http://newspaperbokashi.wordpress.com/tag/bokashi-compost/>,
yeast <http://newspaperbokashi.wordpress.com/tag/yeast/>
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Bokashi Compost
(Nicaragua)<http://newspaperbokashi.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/bokashi-compost-nicaragua/>
May
27, 2010

ABONO
BOCASHI<http://nica-aviva.blogspot.com/2010/05/biofertilizante-fermentacion-y.html>

<http://newspaperbokashi.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/nica1.jpg>INGREDIENTS:
ingredients for making 16 sacks of compost in 15 days.
5 sacks rice hulls or dried grass or leaves
5 sacks fertile soil
5 sacks cow or chicken manure or both
1.5 sacks carbon (charcoal from fire)
23 lbs. semolina
10 lbs. lime
5 lbs. sugar
172 lb. yeast
optional: spent coffee grounds

CONDITIONS OF COMPOST SITE:
choose a spot protected from the sun, wind, and rain or prepare outdoors
and cover with black plastic. Work in a site with firm ground bemeath.

PROCEDURE:
Layer the materials, keeping in mind a good mix between green and brown
materials. Water should be added to drier layers, not building the pile
higher than 50 centimenters.
Mix the sugar and yeast in water and pour lightly and homogenously over the
top of pile and mix to spread the mixture to all parts of pile, thus
beginning the fermentation.
Once finished, begin to turn the pile twice daily for 5 days and then once
daily for 7 days.
Let the pile sit for 3 days.
The pile should always feel moist and warm in the center.
Test pile to make sure everything is well mixed and decomposed.
Place compost into sacks, protected from sun and rain until used.
The compost should not be left for more than 3 months.

<http://newspaperbokashi.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/nica2.jpg>

Source: Puddle Jumping in
Nicaragua<http://nica-aviva.blogspot.com/2010/05/biofertilizante-fermentacion-y.html>
Abono
Bocashi

(Note: This is another example of “cutting the EM hype”, as the method
described is a simple farm compost recipe. It involves fermenting to avoid
putrefaction. No more, no less. In this case, using yeast.)

Tags:bocashi
fertilizer<http://newspaperbokashi.wordpress.com/tag/bocashi-fertilizer/>,
bokashi compost <http://newspaperbokashi.wordpress.com/tag/bokashi-compost/>,
yeast <http://newspaperbokashi.wordpress.com/tag/yeast/>
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Foliar Fertilizer
(Nicaragua)<http://newspaperbokashi.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/foliar-fertilizer-nicaragua/>
May
27, 2010

ABONO FOLIAR
CASERO<http://nica-aviva.blogspot.com/2010/05/biofertilizante-fermentacion-y.html>


<http://newspaperbokashi.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/nica01.jpg>

INGREDIENTS:
12 lbs. fresh cow manure
1/2 block of sugarcane, or 1 lb. white sugar, molasses
3 litres milk (fresh from cow if available)
4 oz. ash from fire

MATERIALS:
1 5- gallon bucket with lid
syphon or ruber tubing
knife

PROCEDURE:
Dilute cow manure, sugar, milk, and ash in enough water to fill at least
half the bucket.
Mix well, removing any clumps from the mixture.
Once mixed, fill the rest of the bucket with water.
Cover with lid. In the lid carve a hole just the right size to place the
syphon or rubber tubing.
Place one end of rubber tubing in the lid so it is in contact with the
water.
Place other end of tubing in a 1 or 2 litre soda bottle.
Leave bucket in a cool dark space.
Mix daily for 7 days and then let sit 3 days without stirring.
After 10 days, strain the solid material and pour the liquid into a pump
sprayer.
Apply 2 or 3 litres to one pump sprayer and dilute with 18- 20 litres water.
Apply every 8 days to the foliage of crops to give them a boost of N, P, K.

RECOMENDATIONS:
The application of this fertilizer has best results when applied in the
early morning or evening, when the sun and hot temps cannot burn the
fertilizer applied to the leaves.

<http://newspaperbokashi.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/nica001.jpg>

Source: Puddle Jumping in
Nicaragua<http://nica-aviva.blogspot.com/2010/05/biofertilizante-fermentacion-y.html>
-
Fermentation and Fertilization

(Note: This is another example of “cutting the EM hype” with the use of
milk and molasses, out on the farm. Beneficial indigenous microorganisms.)

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bokashi <http://newspaperbokashi.wordpress.com/tag/bokashi/>, foliar
fertilizer <http://newspaperbokashi.wordpress.com/tag/foliar-fertilizer/>,
lactic
acid producing
bacteria<http://newspaperbokashi.wordpress.com/tag/lactic-acid-producing-bacteria/>,
lactobacillus <http://newspaperbokashi.wordpress.com/tag/lactobacillus/>
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Foliar
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Bokashi Experiment
(Nicaragua)<http://newspaperbokashi.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/bokashi-experiment-nicaragua/>
November
19, 2007

*Evaluation of composting as a strategy for managing organic wastes from a
municipal market in
Nicaragua<http://newspaperbokashi.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/aulinas2008desechosorganicos.pdf>
*

Montserrat Aulinas Maso´ , August Bonmatı Blasi *

Laboratory of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Girona,
Campus Montilivi, s/n, 17071 Girona, Spain

Abstract

A pilot-scale study was undertaken to evaluate alternatives to the solid
waste management of a Central American municipal market located in Estelı
´, Nicaragua. The municipal solid waste from the local market is the second
largest contributor to the municipal solid waste (MSW) stream. Waste from
the market without any previous sorting or treatment is open dumped. The
options evaluated in this study were *windrow composting, windrow
composting with yard waste, bokashi and vermicompost*. Significant
differences between the properties of composts produced were found; however,
all of them reduce the initial waste volume and are potential useful
agronomic products for a survival agrarian milieu.

(…)

*Bokashi* (Bk): A layer of organic wastes from the market, a layer of
cattle manure (coming approximately to 170 kg of organic wastes), a thin
layer of vegetal coal and a thin layer of rice husk (2.3 kg each), all of
them watered with yeast and sugar from cane dissolved in water. This
procedure was repeated three times and materials were turned over
frequently.

[The document includes a table comparing the 4 options evaluated]

Download
document<http://newspaperbokashi.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/aulinas2008desechosorganicos.pdf>

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