Ultimate Upcycling: Ferment your Organic Waste

Something has been nagging you, hasn’t it? All that organic waste piling up, adding extra smells to your kitchen, extra rotting bulk to your trash can. Why not try fermenting your organic waste in a DIY Bokashi bucket? In just two weeks, your bucket of fermented goodness can be dug into the ground, wait two more weeks and you will have gardener’s gold; rich, nutrient dense soil ready for seedlings and plants. Old school composting is great, but it takes time for all that organic matter to break down into soil. Bokashi composting is fast, easy and it keeps you actively involved in the generation of microbe rich soil for growing your own food.

Carrot tops, fish skin, egg shells, banana peels, stale nuts, forgotten leftovers, basically any organic kitchen waste that is not classified as a bone can go into your bokashi bucket. Nutrient dense plants come from microbe rich soil. Much of our store bought produce is grown with chemical fertilizers and pesticides, even produce labeled as organic is often compromised in its nutrition because of proximity to conventionally grown produce. Furthermore, a healthy gut needs nutrient dense produce that has not been grown with chemicals and antibiotics. You can take matters into your own hands by growing some of your own. You know exactly what you feed the soil because it comes from your own kitchen. With Bokashi composting, you create a beautiful closed loop cycle of inputs and outputs that is regenerative for the planet and healthy for you.

Join me for a DIY Bokashi Bucket workshop through To Do - A Mending Project at the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art on Saturday, July 13 at 2pm. Sign up here

To Do · A Mending Project, is a participatory exhibition conceived of by artists Michelle Montjoy, Anna O’Cain, and Siobhán Arnold in response to the escalation of political, social, and economic tensions in the United States that have increased a sense of divisiveness within our culture. These artists will organize and teach a series of workshops on topics ranging from traditional, domestic, and repair tasks to movement, breathing, and sound.