Composting at home has many benefits, from enriching the soil with nutrients to reducing methane emissions by diverting food waste from landfills. People typically compost fruit peels, vegetable ...

This is a great option for small indoor spaces. Meghan Holmes is a writer and documentarian specializing in scientific topics such as the environment, invasive species, sustainability, and food issues ...

Bokashi uses fermentation to break down food waste into beneficial pre-compost. The process takes place inside an airtight container, making it odor- and pest-free. Unlike traditional composting, you ...

Horticulturalist Daniel Cunningham puts in a layer of food scraps to make compost inside a Bokashi compost bucket at the Texas AgriLife Research Center. Rose Baca / Staff Photographer By now ...

If you’re looking for a way to turn nearly all of your food waste into nutritious garden food, bokashi composting is for you. Bokashi composting is not exactly composting. It’s really fermentation, ...

Here's a practical guide to getting started at home. Bokashi composting is a bit different from other methods in that it's actually a fermentation system. (Bokashi is a Japanese word for "fermented ...

The end product of this work also varies. Bokashi produces pre-compost that requires it to be buried in soil to complete the decomposition, making nutrient-rich fertilizer in about two weeks. Worm ...

As you might have guessed from its name, bokashi comes straight from Japan. This kind of composting, based on fermented organic matter, is within everyone"s reach — including those who have neither a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. We’ve got a new food waste bin in our kitchen. It can turn ordinary food waste into extraordinary fermented ...

MANILA, Philippines - “Green Cities†, this year’s Earth Day theme, calls attention to the important issues of urban sprawl and food security and how they challenge the sustainability of our ...

Down the back stairs of the clubhouse kitchen, on a plot lost among the expanse of tightly trimmed fairways and greens, weeks-old food is buried under a tarp and mulch and left to decompose. But this ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Composting at home has many benefits, from enriching the soil with nutrients to reducing methane emissions by diverting food waste from ...