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Bokashi Composting: Scraps to Soil in Weeks Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Adam Footer (Author), Diego Footer (Narrator), WCP Media (Publisher)

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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 technique
Getting started - composting with commercially available products or homemade systems
Making your own - system plans and bokashi bran recipes using common materials and locally sourced ingredients
Growing - improving your soil with fermented compost and bokashi "juice"

This essential guide is a must-listen 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.

Adam Footer is a permaculture designer with a focus on soil building, food forestry, cover crops, water conservation and harvesting, and natural farming. He is a tireless promoter of bokashi to maximize the recycling of food waste and runs the website bokashicomposting.com.

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3 hours and 27 minutes
Author

Adam Footer
Narrator

Diego Footer
Audible release date

August 13, 2018
Language

English
Publisher

WCP Media
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B07GC56DP8
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	3 hours and 27 minutes
Author	Adam Footer
Narrator	Diego Footer
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	August 13, 2018
Publisher	WCP Media
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07GC56DP8
Best Sellers Rank	#224,231 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #185 in Sustainable & Green Living #206 in Agricultural & Food Sciences #296 in Gardening & Horticulture (Audible Books & Originals)

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Customers find the book's information quality good. They say it's a good reference manual, well-written, and helpful for beginners. Readers mention the book can be used as an encyclopedia and has a nice reference list of relevant literature.

"...leaves to make a mix for new plants etc... Its great and easier than making regular compost...." Read more

"Loved that this book was a all-in-1 comprehensive guide to Bokashi... that was also easy to read and understand...." Read more

"This is going to work great for me. It’s going to help me process my families food waste easily and with less stress...." Read more

"...and experiences processing bokashi, and he has accumulated a nice reference list of the relevant literature...." Read more

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Customers find the book easy to read, well-written, and a quick read. They say the author is knowledgeable and covers everything you need to know clearly. Readers also mention the book is laid out well from start to finish.

"...many non-fiction authors do, and instead presents the facts in an easy-to-read, short text that I was able to consume during one rainy afternoon...." Read more

"...a all-in-1 comprehensive guide to Bokashi... that was also easy to read and understand...." Read more

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nanjoon

It works!

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2020

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We use Bokashi now for 3 or 4 years and it is a wonder in the garden. (Im the gardener for our condo). We put it in the compost bin, and cover with a layer of soil instead of digging it into the garden. Then twice or three tims a year put the finished bokashi out in all the besa, or use it to improve our sandy soil in new beds, or mix it with last years old fall leaves to make a mix for new plants etc... Its great and easier than making regular compost.
But... It is a hassel to get the right combi of how much bokashi to use and it does not smell pleasant in any sense! And it takes a little more time in the kitchen, to cut up peelings etc to a fairly small size, which we find to work better. We also use EM with a garden hose sprayer, which is a lot less hassel and works beautifully to fertilize trees and bushes as well as the veggie patch.

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Homesteader

Poor science but good hands-on instruction

Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2015

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This book --- like the modern incarnation of bokashi composting --- has its good and bad points. I'll start with the book's strengths. Adam Footer does a fine job of not padding the book the way so many non-fiction authors do, and instead presents the facts in an easy-to-read, short text that I was able to consume during one rainy afternoon. He also includes lots of photos, and even though they're black and white, I appreciate the sheer quantity of hands-on pictorials. After reading the book, I feel like I'll easily be able to set up a bokashi bucket and produce my own compost using his method.

Okay, so what didn't I like? The method seems to attract a lot of pseudoscientists, and the chapter titled "The Science" made me cringe. There's no attempt to cut through the commodification of the method to determine whether you really do need all of the types of microorganisms found in the store-bought starter solutions, although the author firmly tells us that a homemade Lactobacillus starter (using whey from yogurt, for example) won't be as effective. Meanwhile, Footer uses words like "consortium" to refer to the supposedly symbiotic relationship existing within the commercial starter...but gives very little information on how the consortium is supposed to be better than plain old whey. Then we hit the point where the author promises that the commercial starter will "reeducate other 'wild' microbes" --- that's where I had to force myself to keep on reading.

In the end, I'd say that if you enjoy publications by Acres USA, then chances are you'll love this book. But if you like your science in a little bit of a purer form, you'll need to read Bokashi Composting critically and to run a few tests of your own to determine whether anything the author writes about is worth believing. However, since this appears to be one of the few or perhaps the only print book in English on the topic, you might as well pick it up and take a look. Just take what you read with a grain of salt.

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Rarny

Buy this book, it worked for me!

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2019

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Loved that this book was a all-in-1 comprehensive guide to Bokashi... that was also easy to read and understand. For me, it’s very rare that I can read a “how to” book and then be able to go ahead and do it confidently. Knowing that the author has done all the hard work, thought about and then answered all the little hiccups that might concern me, makes me very happy that I purchased his book. Thanks so much. I was successful from my first attempt. I have already begun recommending this book. 5 stars for sure!

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A simple process

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2022

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This is going to work great for me. It’s going to help me process my families food waste easily and with less stress. I wish the pictures were color but that’s my only complaint. Otherwise it’s easy tired and follow the directions.

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Jenna Grace

Very useful

Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2023

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Perfect to inject nutrients to plants

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David S

20% Useful … 80% Religion

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2016

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I have been composting our food scraps for many years, alternating between three tumblers monthly as collection, composting and curing stages. I use the end product to top-dress flower beds. In order to produce a more refined compost, I am contemplating a shift to a vermiculture (worm bin) set up. However, our kitchen waste (worm food) production (an average of 30 lb. monthly) varies +/- 50% depending on the season (especially during the holidays). While my bride tolerates my composting distractions, she has drawn the line at freezing food waste to accommodate worms during the slow periods. Thus, my interest in the potential for bokashi to preserve, store and dispense worm food evenly throughout the year.
Mr. Foster’s book does a fine job of discussing his techniques and experiences processing bokashi, and he has accumulated a nice reference list of the relevant literature. My disappointment with his effort is that he spends an inordinate, and unnecessary, amount of time defending the practice of bokashi, and promoting his tiresome climate change agenda. To wit (pages 125-127): “Bokashi … is just another tool to have in our toolbox so we can combat climate change and the destruction of our environment”. … “I hope I have also shown that bokashi isn’t a hocus-pocus form of composting.” … “The ingredients in the bokashi process [are natural], so that will most likely keep big corporate and government money out of the research space. … This gives power to the people and takes it away from the large corporations …”
And so on and on … I wonder if it irritates Mr. Footer that I found his book via Google, used my Apple computer to order and pay for it, through Amazon.com … three of the four largest (market value) publicly traded corporations in the US.
As for using bokashi in vermiculture, Mr. Footer argues (pg 113): “There are all sorts of ideas and theories as to why bokashi pre-compost should go into the worm bin, but I don’t agree with any of them.” So Mr. Footer can continue to pursue social justice by pickling his table scraps, and I will find another way to top-dress my petunias.

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Thi Bao Quyen NGUYEN

Amazing product

Reviewed in Canada on April 9, 2023

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It’s the first time I do the transform the kitchen wast to compost. It’s amazing just after three weeks, I could see the liquid and use that for my plant inside the house. I will buy more.