A cheap and quick DIY way to encourage better fermentation is to tell you users to put a balloon on top of the bottle you can see the fermentation that way and the back pressure helps the fermentation and a balloon is like $0.10 and will improve your process
Heeei Simon and Jessica! Amigos! Its Mirko from the Netherlands :) I just got back from my trip through South America. Day 1, im making my organic compost for on the balcony of my apartment. And I stumbled on the video and heard your familiar voices, great!:) Besides, It's the best video explainer out there on Bokashi and how to save some money. (I checked a few) Now on to the local shop to buy buckets. Great vid, muchisimas gracias!
Big hello from Mountain Apple Farm intentional community on the western ranges of Motueka on the south island. Very informative video on making EM1, very inspiring, and great to hear a strong kiwi accent,my daughter and her husband are on the hunt for a large drum to start making the brew. We can see it would be beneficial on some of the steeper paddock's on the property, we've been farming organically here for 35 years, but only just started restorative farming in the last couple of years,to good effect I might say. Keep up the good work
why Potassium is important in plants: - Potassium regulates the opening and closing of stomata thus regulating the uptake of CO2 thus enhancing photosynthesis. - It triggers activation of important biochemical enzymes for the generation of Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP). ATP provides energy for other chemical and physiological processes such as excretion of waste materials in plants. - It plays a role in osmoregulation of water and other salts in plant tissues and cells. - Potassium also facilitates protein and starch synthesis in plants. - It activates enzymes responsible for specific functions.
Thank you, this is the first video explaining how to create em yourself and not only promoting a shelf product. From now on I'll share this video. I tried starting my own little bokashi in the flat with Sauerkraut juice (pickled cabbage) and some old kombucha. It actually smelled like pickles after a week and got this white mold you see in many bokashi videos. Didn't had store bought EM solution neither did I drain my bucket. Thanks alot
Great video. Thanks. I hadn't seen anyone spray EM1 in their compost bin or on the sawdust used for the composting toilet. That's brilliant. I have seen people add JMS to their pigs' water - which is supposed to make the pigs' poop not smell. I bet the EM1 would work well with that, too. Thanks again. - Jim from Phoenix
So spraying liquid em1 is enough to compost food, even chicken bones? Saves the trouble of procuring sawdust/bran or shredding newspaper. Now I will actually try it, thanks! SM from a small Indian city flat.
I recently saw that adding starch also suppresses compost toilet smells. Ours don't really smell if used properly i.e. sitting to pee or finding a tree. That said, trees supposedly only need two pees a year. If you are getting aphids that is a sign of too much nitrogen
Mnasery so do tell the results please please please!! Does it really help break things down faster???.....I wonder if this would work on grasses....instead of just throwing away nuisance Bermuda grass...bag it sence it very invasive...and innoculate it with this stuff for fertilizer for the Bermuda grass that's in the front yard.... We don't do chemicals here 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮
@@davidschmidt270 yes, it does break everything down faster. Run your mower over your grass to chop it up, layer it with bokashi. Works like a hot damn. After 6 weeks, or whenever your compost smells kind of fermented, dig it into a trench or hole, cover with several inches of soil. You can plant in that area within 2 weeks. Another prime time to do this is in the fall after beds have had their vegetables & fruit removed. By the time you're ready to plant in the spring, it has already turned into rich, dark soil, and you will have many worms. You can use the bokashi in a regular compost bin as well. Just layer it more with the 'green' layers so you have some moisture for the organisms to get going.
Thank you Simon for sharing this. I'm a Filipino living in Sydney and love growing and consuming things organic. I'm going to make this as I make big loads of Boakashi collecting food scraps from neighbours.
To make EM-1 as learned from the "Future cannabis project" UA-cam channel. - Worm casings - LAB or Kombucha vinegar - Brewers yeast - Molasses Mix all together but NOT the molasses (Each input is 1 part) - Add 20 parts water to the input, stir, then add the molasses. - Keep at 26 degrees C until a pH4 is reached
Cheers Simon, thanks for the info on timing for application We also dug out some of the solids, dug a trench , back filled it with compost and planted leeks. The comfrey I put in came out like sauerkraut, really pickled, and the smell of the leachate changed again, more acceptable 🤭
Aesome video. Glad to know that sawdust can even be used. First time I've seen it done that way. Have seen it done with shredded paper, but would have to be careful as to what type of paper due to dioxins in bleached paper, plastic coated paper which is absolutely insidious now. I made 50 LBs bokashi using wheta bran my first year, doing 100 LBs this year. Gave my local friend / nursery lady a small sample bag & she was shocked that her compost turned to soil right in her bucket within several weeks haha ;-) She now wants me to produce it for her business so she can sell it, which I am happy to do. I have noticed many wild mushrooms popping up in my soil after using bokashi activated composting base. Such a good sign of healthy soil when mycelial growth is strong.
Hi Simon Just a quick update from the folks at Mountain Apple , we sprayed the first of the leachate a couple of days ago,I picked the most bony and infertile parts, as it's spring and everything else is going gangbusters. We've had no rain, And I have to say, the clover and plantain just shot up a couple of cm within 24hrs! I keep checking it to make sure I'm not fooling myself. We've set up a second 200ltr drum
Ha ha, yep its incredible stuff. Thanks for keeping us updated on your progress. I market the fertilizer as "bokpow" bolashi power. Its a great tradeable. You could probably get $10 a litre or easily trade for local produce...
Its normal to see noticable improvement of growth overnight and that keeps on going all the way through resulting in a 30 % increase in the plant overall. The key is to put it on in the early stages of the growth phase well before flowering.
@@davidschmidt270 the liquid that comes off the bokashi compost. Typically 15% of the kitchen and market organic waste becomes leachate. It will have EM1 bacterias and a broad spectrum of nutrients based on the hopefully diverse inputs you put it.
@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia nice!!! Currently experimenting on putting all my kitchen scraps in a big plastic bag and layering with sand from a canal that has ducks(for the waste) as well as brown tree leaves... periodically I'll unwrap the bag then re wrap the top part to put air in there so it won't go dormant...I leave the bag in the sun but it's been getting in the 40's at night ... something a lot of folks don't know about the deserts in the Southwest is it can get pretty cold out here ....is there any ideas or tips or suggestions rather ...that you would do with my experiment Sir?
Really cool, thanks! Had no idea that even though I have all the components there, that there still might not be the right organisms there that I want/need!! PS ....I'm a big fan of composting!! YAY 👏👏👏 PSPS ....I heard a preacher once God told that He love's compost!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Hi Simon , I’m a kiwi living in Japan who loves gardening and it’s the first time I have heard about bokashi , i would hope some farmers still use bokashi here but they love their chemical fertilizers and apply it liberally on everything. In order to become a organic farm here you just have to tell the government you will use 30% less chemical fertilizers on your crops ( crazy ) . So I will start using it on my garden and show the farmers around here the results that their is a better way :) . My question to you is have you had any experience with worm composting toilets ? and also adding bokashi to the tank ? Basically it’s a normal flushing rain water toilet that has a tank that collects the brown waste ( poo ) and the worms eat the poo in the tank and the urine and waste water flows on into a trench with wood chips to use and replenish soil on your garden . Do you see any problems with adding bokashi to the tank with worms and will bokashi break down human poo like it breaks down kitchen waste and breakdown faster ? I look forward to your reply, Thank you and keep the videos coming 👍🏻 🇳🇿
Hey mate! That's a nice setup you have there. You must have some gradient to work with? I have done some trials with worms but not formally with mixing bokashi and worms intentionally. One tank once bred a writhing melee of tiger worms but I noticed that the fertilizer was of much less quality. It's likely that it did not have the bokashi bacterias. For your application worms sound ideal. Perhaps try applying bokashi at the end of a trench and monitor how the worms interact with it and how it breaks down compared to the rest. Cheers for the encouragement. We have a few vids in the pipeline along with the long wish list of projects. By the way I recommend following Ice Age Farmer on telegram. You will see that this year's chemical fertilizer production is way down and cost more than double.
EM1 is a specific consortium of microorganisms and is actually a brand name of a particular product. You are making a microbial innoculant, but it isn't EM1; they are just EM's. And thats great! I'm not sure using EM1 to describe what you've made is really fair to the people who own the EM1 brand. Love the video though and keep up the great work. The more of this very helpful content the better for the future of humanity!
To make EM-1 as learned from the "Future cannabis project" UA-cam channel. - Worm casings - LAB or Kombucha vinegar - Brewers yeast - Molasses Mix all together but NOT the molasses (Each input is 1 part) - Add 20 parts water to the input, stir, then add the molasses. - Keep at 26 degrees C until a pH4 is reached
@@perpetual4958 ua-cam.com/users/livef02E1wlfRzE?feature=share If that doesn't work type "future cannabis project compost deep dive". Start at the 25 minute mark and you'll be set.
Thank you so much for showing! 1 question: at 1:57 it doesn't look like 1/2 a cup of rice milk, the bottle is at least filled half! Have you then already mixed it with whey? Or is it just more? Thank you for advice!! greets from berlin!
Thanks for this, I have a question: I see you get the whey straight from the cow (unpasturised) I have troubles finding raw milk, would the pasteurised milk work as well? I guess you probably need the bacteria pasteurisation would kill?
This is what I was looking for, great video! I live in a country where the Amazon delivery(if it is available for my region) is more expensive than the product itself, this is why I want to make myself the compost activator. Is the sugar syrup the same with the molasses?The sugar concentration of the syrup has to be 30% ( I am not talking about the mix with the whey and rice water proportion)? Thank you and keep going with videos like this!
Hi I’m new to this and located in Carriacou sister island to Grenada. Very excited to finally get my bokashi going. I happen to mix up the instructions… First I let the rice water ferment for a few days. Then mixed the whey and the fermented rice water. That has now been fermented for about 5 days (very hot here so it goes faster). I know realize I should have added the molasses as well. Will it still work if I add it now? Great work you are doing with your farm and videos 🙌🏽
I'm s excited to this. I live in a small remote town in Alaska and there are several horses here, but they are fed inorganic feed. Hoping em-1 can transmute the residual herbicides and pesticides! I'll be experimenting this year. any experience with this?
Geoff Lawton has made reference to compost bacterias eating pesticides. I haven't seen it under a microscope but think that makes sense. For instance we use white sugar to make kombucha and the end product is healthy (as tested using Chinese kinesiology)
There is so much online about em-1 and bokashi. Use a grain bran, newspaper, leaves, animal feed, or sawdust, whatever you have at hand to ferment the "brown" material and em-1, few weeks, then dry, store, and use for compost, compost toilets, enhanced digestion of animal feed, so many other uses and so many ways to make it!
In the JADAM JMS preparation, they use mashed potato and sea salt in a paint strainer bag that they hang in their barrel of rainwater. The pH of the potato is 6.5 - a lot less acidic than sugar and molasses (3.5) - and a whole lot cheaper if you grow your own (don't use non-organic because they are sprayed to discourage fungal activity). With JMS, they use leaf fungus from the adjacent hills/mountains and from the property itself - that goes in the paint strainer bag, too. Those are free inputs and are already acclimated to the environment. Keep the great videos coming.
Whey has heaps of lactobacillus microbes in it already. You can skip the first part with rice and just go straight to feeding and stabilising the whey.
I just started with half a cup brown rice. I dont see the white coloring after stirring. Does that mean that brown rice cannot be used? Thank you! I found your film at the right time!
Hi Simon! A quick question - is it catastrophically smelly if air gets into the bokashi bin? My regular compost is placed outdoors, so a slight funk won't be a problem. What I don't have is an airtight lid :(. I've made several batches of EM for toilet deodorant using your method, and then started using live yogurt whey(the liquid that separates out of the yogurt I set regularly) with exactly the same results. I've also been able to keep the culture nice and active by adding table sugar when I ran out of molasses. Thank you for the tips, it's a great help!
Hi Ruby, many farms do use em1 on open compost. Best if you cover it with plastic to reduce airflow and maintain humidity. You'll find out whether the smell is tolerable or not. It might be.
@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia I've actually tried using various fermented items in regular compost, and they all seem to behave just fine given good airflow, a covering of soil, and proper drainage. Vinegar solids, yogurt, LAB from yogurt whey with molasses, rice water, Chinese jiu-niang... my compost loves them all! Then again, it was monsoon and I live close to the Sunderbans of Bengal, so the microbes were hyperactive to begin with. I'm just hoping that ground eggshells will be enough to keep the compost from getting inhospitably acidic. It took longer than usual for the garden worms to get into the vinegar solids, so that's a concern.
@@castafioreruby9937 sounds like you are well on the same track with all of that. Have a look at our video for how to use the bokashi. By mixing equal parts of dirt with it after 3 weeks exposure to em1 is a good way to make soil.
1 part fermented food in 3 parts dirt, directly used? I guess I'll try that on acid-loving crops. Do you know about citrus peel vinegar cleaners, which Indians have popularised as 'bioenzymes'? I make those and use them as all purpose cleaners, so we get some use out of them between eating and composting. This is a good link.ua-cam.com/video/uwUUbY4I2kE/v-deo.html
Wowwww. awesome video !!!! Where do you leave??? it looks like a latin american country, I live in Bogotá! i found you looking for a solution to compost on little apartments and houses in the cities!!!! Congratulations. Keep It Up!!! Can i replace White Rice for "integral" or raw Rice? Molasses IS panela? 3rd question, the water or lixiviado gotten from compost how can be used ?
What do you think about using the Bokashi materials/compost in a worm bin? I have ordered a 500 pack of worms to start a worm bin so i don't want to hurt the worms.
Awesome video mate 👍 I have a small garden with a friend of mine and I was curious can you keep the mother and let the bacterias grow? Example: when you have like 1 dl of the mother put some sugar in it and add water to a liter and let is sit for a few days will that be the new mother? Thanks in advance
Thanks for the awesome video! Trying this out and I made about 1L of mother. How should I store the mother and the watered down em1 spray? Thanks in advance!
When doing a bokashi compost bucket system at home, what is the difference between applying EM1 spray directly on the food waste vs sprinkling bran innoculated with EM1? thanks
@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia Not for compost toilet, but just at home in urban area doing a double bucket system wanting to compost my food scraps. the ready made bokashi "zing" powder is a bit expensive and just wondering if having the substrate/medium does for the compost as opposed to just spraying liquid.
You can see the difference 2 days later. The most graphic example was in a standard of corn. Where applied was 40cm taller,thicker and produced corn whereas the other didn't produce.
Hi Simon, I'm back with a myraid of questions! Just drew off some of the leachate,and it smells,well, unfinished, not rotten, but not like pickles either, I've been still adding stuff to the drum, do I just need to wait some,or does that sound dodgy to you? The other thought I had was I've been spraying the dilution ( 1:20), should I be using the concentrate EM1…¿ Thanks 🙏 for your advice Rob
Its a funny to describe smell. Not pickled. Definitely strong when done. Sorta stays on the hands for a day lol How long since last fill? Any insects or fungi? What color was the leachate?
Maybe use the concentrate.em1 as its cheap to make. If you are doing en mass then, sure dilute with water add sugar and wait a week for the bacterias to multiply. I suspect that in those variables is where it may have failed this time.
Thanks for your thoughts Simon, the latest update. I checked on the leachate again after a few days and the smell has changed, not as foul, so maybe I was just panicking unnecessarily, it was only a couple of weeks since I added the last waste to it.
No insects, just had a look and it has white mold on top. I've liberated another 200lt drum an will be getting the necessary valve and fittings to get that one started. There's a lot of interest from the neighbors here, with at least one who's already started his own. I keep directing them to your UA-cam video
I put the molasses in after two days of fermentation with the milk by mistake. My brain just told me I had forgotten the molasses... I realized I was doing a mistake when it was to late. What to do now? Is the fermentation over because I added the sugar? Or will I grow other mikroorganisms? 😢
i love the fact that you show it can be made shelf stable and just add more things to it to continue using the same solution mother .. however .. i became confused in the very beginning , you show adding the rice water to the whey ... then adding more milk after the initial week? sorry for the inconvenience .. but i am doing all the research i can on KNF and trying to learn to get away from chemical dependency in my garden ..
Hi there you guys in Bolivia, We've got our EM1 mix after a couple of weeks, and are keen to get out there on the farm and spray it about. Just a couple of questions, You mentioned adding some more sugar to the mix, ( we've used molasses) Is this at the concentrate stage, and or, the dilute stage? And,how much? A tablespoon? Thanks for your support,we really enjoy your videos bro!
Great to hear Rob. Molasses is ideal. The em1 mother can be diluted 1:20 for use as a foliar fertilizer directly. Else can also be diluter 25x with water and 3% molasses. Even better for your next crop put with your kitchen waste and use that leachate. You will notice big growth from the day after.
Hi there, We've procured the 200lt barrel and today I'll install the 15mm drain valve. Do we need to put some sort of filter n the inside of the drum to stop in getting blocked? Can we use the leachate immediately as it's produced?
@@robknowles6152 well done. Yep best to put some sort of filter barrier there. Also use a straight valve versus tap as its easier to clear if it gets blocked. You might want to elevate the barrel on an old car tire (fill with dirt else bees might nest there). We sometimes just put a 6 hole brick on the inside to keep the outlet clear.
Hi guys, I hope all these questions are not a pain in the arse for you? Here goes. 1. In the sealed drum ( which is about half full and displaying some white mold on top 👍), when can we start extracting leachate? 2. Is it best to Lock it up and leave it for 6 weeks, or keep adding to it? 3. Can we add just grass/nettle/ comfrey to top it up? Let me know if this is tedious, and I'll desist. Cheers Rob
@@robknowles6152 hi Rob, good questions. No probs answering. Keep topping up till full with any organic matter. Would be very interesting to add comfrey. I try to fill the container within a month, adding more em1 periodically and leave it 3 weeks from last fill. Ideally fill it up faster.
There is a guy in Australia who just started his own garden is channel is called " The Weedy Garden " he has a solution similar to this. Has really good content to.. Do you do worm composting at all.? or raise meal worms for your poultry.? Keep up the video's pal.
Saw his channel too, he's great. We need to upgrade the chicken coup and change out nesting material. Once we start with that we want to try mixing the straw with food scraps as chicken feed. Just need to use further from the house for smell reasons
Very good video and very clear your instructions! Thank you so much!!!! I just wanted to ask if we can replace the milk/ whey with a herbal product. ...
@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia wowwww!!!! Thank you Jessica! That s wonderful!!!! Actually I was thinking the milk or whey must be the source for the bacteria in the solution.All the others are the nutritions to grow the bacteria and keep them alive. Are the e m's in the Lactobacillus genus?
@@κλεγιακ hi! Jessica here! ☺️ The ingredients without dairy are organic brown rice, sugar, and non-iodized salt. You can UA-cam search vegan EM1 and there’s quite a few good videos with exact measurements. Woohoo!
Great video, many thanks. Spanish here living in NZ (Kapiti Coast) so really loved hearing youse speaking both languages so naturally. I’ve been using my worm farm for many years but recently I’ve purchased bokashi bran (I’ll do my own 20l bokashi system with a bucket, the store bought ones are too expensive!) and I also bought 1l EM1 thinking I could do my own bran with some molasses in the future. I didn’t realise I could produce my own EM1 as well! My Q is, can I use diluted EM1 directly in the veggie garden as a fertiliser? I didn’t see you applying it directly in the veggie garden, maybe it’s too acidic. Also I could keep adding rice water and sugar/molasses to the original EM1 bottle and it would generate more EM1? Not sure if I understood this part well. Gracias!
Yes Em1 can be used directly on the garden. Dilute 1:30 with water and add 3% sugar. Wait a couple of days for the bacterias to propogate then spray away.
Sure you could keep adding rice water, milk and sugar but probably easier just to periodically start a new em1 mother when you are getting low. You will fill a 20ltr bucket up super quickly so need several. two 50 or 60 litre containers might be worth the investment particularly if you can trade with local farmers. Fyi I spent my teens in Kapiti. My sister still lives there. Enjoy, its a nice place.
@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia where's capiti ?? Sounds fun!! I live a thousand miles away in Phoenix AZ!! ...hey brother I was wondering if I could just use regular sugar instead of molasses ??? 🤔🤔
Excellent video, that bottled sugar syrup is a little confusing but not to worry I have also read comments below.😀 Probably I'll go with molaasses as I cant relate to that bottled sugar you use. Can you post a link to a description of that sugar, so geeks like me could look it up. I love the whey idea as well. It sounds like I could use whey from strained yoghurt too, no?
Miel de cana is rehydrated raw sugar that can be bought cheaply in 3kg blocks here. I guess you could also use white sugar at a pinch but more natural the better. Here they call the block of condensed sugar "chankaka" In Equador they call it "Panela"
i need something asap to get ride of my dogs peed odor. she is old and have accidents pretty often...the smell is killing me...but i remember that i watched a video lononnnnonng time ago that claimed tha lab get ride of pig "prerfume"@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia
Isnt this just a LABS recipe? I've seen videos on here of people making the exact same formula (letting rice water set out, combine with dairy, separate out cheesy stuff, etc), but they all call it LABS, or a Lactic Acid Bacteria Solution. From what I understand, EM is a mix of not just LAB, but also fungi and other helpful types of bacteria.
Lactic Acid Bacteria: Bifidobacterium animalis, B. bifidum, B. longum, Lactobacillus acidophilus, L. casei, L. delbrueckii subsp bulgaricus, L. fermentum, L. plantarum, Lactococcus lactis subsp lactis, Streptococcus thermophilus Yeast and other: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Bacillus subtilis Phototrophic Bacteria: Rhodopseudomonas palustris and R. sphaeroides This is original EM1 - all of them eat sugar.
@@evawolf758 Phototrophic Bacteria is hard to multiply. I buy 1 liter of EM1 every year and multiply it like they said, and use the EM-a for soil. 1 liter of EMa I keep for multiply to use for sterilize the water and all the organics that use for soil or spraying.
i dont even use sugar in mine, still works. you can leave the rice water 2 or 3 days, and the bokashi is usually ready when mixed in 2 or 3 days, mine has always been successful, just take advice of video makers with a pinch of salt
@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia need more evidence to prove this, no shame in just saying you copied and pasted what other video makers were saying. have you tested it, have you done a literature review, have you looked under a microscope?
@@thegreatest3651 I guess you know more than Dr. Teuro Higa the developer of the bokashi technique. I certainly don't have his knowledge on it but we have been experimenting with bokashi for 8 years and were seemingly one of the early adopters of capturing the liquid for rural agricultural crop fertilizer use (there were 4 studies on this use about 5 years ago). There was a general finding that one application increased production 30% in general. There are companies that sell em1 as a fert. It would be interesting to see a side by side comparison of em1 versus leachate from em1 pickled compost....maybe we'll do it someday. My hunch is that the nutrients from diverse organic materials pit with em1 will give more nutrients and a broader spectrum. pls Lmk if you have more insights.
Nut milk would give you a different brew.... might still work (might even be better(!)) - but microbial mix would be different...! Lactobacillus is selected for by milk. Why not try it and let us know how it goes!!
Hey Simon, I've made rice water and have been let it rest in the cabinet inside the room for 4 days, but the smell of that was something like mold and sepsis ! Is it Ok ?! 🤔
@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia I'm not sure about the smell of my rice water (still no milk added), but I put a tissue as a lid and put the jar in the cabinet with closed door. after less than a week (4 days), on the surface solid fermented material was formed . But I am trying the new one to be sure the smell is alike the previous one. Then I will continue. 🙂 Thanks for your answer.
I didn't understand your comment, right near the end, when you were at the toilet. You were talking about spraying. I thought you said "not on vegetables". Did you? If you did, then why can't you spray the activated EM on vegetables? I had been told that you can, and that it is very beneficial. Did I mishear you?
Em1 and bokashi leachate is excellent on plants in general. I wouldnt use human manure on plants to eat. If one must it should be fully decomposed and then uv treated.
@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia What is the purpose of the bran or sawdust? Do you actually need it? Do you only need it for the toilet. I know people are putting EM1 in bran or sawdust and drying it and then adding it to the compost bucket. I wonder what it actually does if you can simply spray the EM1. Am I right in thinking it is not actually necessary because you can add the sawdust as carbon material later when you add the bokashi compost to your compost pile or bury it.
@@anajinn the bran is just easy to handle and guests would apply it unwittingly with use of the compost toilet which is good. Its much more efficient just to have em1 in a spray bottle and to add that regularly.
@@becool565 The original bokashi bucket included a false bottom with perforations in the interior one and a tap beneath. The second layer is unnecessary but does allow the fertilizer to be drained off quicker. You can use 20ltr plastic paint pails with their lids or larger containers with airtight lights as available. Then buy a plastic tap valve, perforate a hole and attach it near the bottom. Should include rubber gasket rings to seal.
Hey Simon! This is Mary. Thank you and Jessica for your great video! ❤ Since I watched it, I am trying to find molasse in my country (IRAN) to make a nice non-toxic fertilizer for my Bokashi composting system. I am very amateur in Bokashi composting. I have a question : Can I use some molasse (fertilizer) soil instead of liquid molasse ? I mean, mixed of rice water and milk , without molasse liquid, and then spray it on bokashi bran, then make a layer of bokashi bran on the waste food, plus a layer of molasse soil (which I've heard it is very useful and nutritious for expensive and special plants), and again, a layer of waste food, then layer of bokashi, and layer of molasse soil, and so on thill the end of process. Do you think it will work? I'm going to try it if I cannot find molasse in my whole country 😉.
If you have a good source of saw dust you can use that. Bokashi takes any organic material. I wouldn't worry so much about the layers other than to mix with soil or dig into garden. We have another video on the use of bokashi. Check it out as it may help
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A cheap and quick DIY way to encourage better fermentation is to tell you users to put a balloon on top of the bottle you can see the fermentation that way and the back pressure helps the fermentation and a balloon is like $0.10 and will improve your process
Heeei Simon and Jessica! Amigos! Its Mirko from the Netherlands :) I just got back from my trip through South America. Day 1, im making my organic compost for on the balcony of my apartment. And I stumbled on the video and heard your familiar voices, great!:) Besides, It's the best video explainer out there on Bokashi and how to save some money. (I checked a few) Now on to the local shop to buy buckets. Great vid, muchisimas gracias!
Hey Mirko, good on you mate!
Big hello from Mountain Apple Farm intentional community on the western ranges of Motueka on the south island.
Very informative video on making EM1, very inspiring, and great to hear a strong kiwi accent,my daughter and her husband are on the hunt for a large drum to start making the brew. We can see it would be beneficial on some of the steeper paddock's on the property, we've been farming organically here for 35 years, but only just started restorative farming in the last couple of years,to good effect I might say. Keep up the good work
Nice to hear from you and great to hear of your transition to regen. So much to learn and so fun to advance...
why Potassium is important in plants:
- Potassium regulates the opening and closing of stomata thus regulating the uptake of CO2 thus enhancing photosynthesis.
- It triggers activation of important biochemical enzymes for the generation of Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP). ATP provides energy for other chemical and physiological processes such as excretion of waste materials in plants.
- It plays a role in osmoregulation of water and other salts in plant tissues and cells.
- Potassium also facilitates protein and starch synthesis in plants.
- It activates enzymes responsible for specific functions.
Nice info thanks. We collect alot of potato peels from the market and have that in the bokashi mix which should help potassium levels
Awe thanks mate, that was awesome! Don't loose that accent. Its great.
Thank you, this is the first video explaining how to create em yourself and not only promoting a shelf product.
From now on I'll share this video.
I tried starting my own little bokashi in the flat with Sauerkraut juice (pickled cabbage) and some old kombucha.
It actually smelled like pickles after a week and got this white mold you see in many bokashi videos. Didn't had store bought EM solution neither did I drain my bucket.
Thanks alot
Our pleasure! Lets build free abundance everywhere!
Funziona con la kombucha? Ho della vecchia kombucha in casa se funziona come attivatore per il mio secchio di kombucha sarebbe fantastico!
Great video. Thanks. I hadn't seen anyone spray EM1 in their compost bin or on the sawdust used for the composting toilet. That's brilliant. I have seen people add JMS to their pigs' water - which is supposed to make the pigs' poop not smell. I bet the EM1 would work well with that, too. Thanks again. - Jim from Phoenix
when you say JMS do you mean Jadam microrganisms solution ???
@@shamanking5195 Yes
So spraying liquid em1 is enough to compost food, even chicken bones? Saves the trouble of procuring sawdust/bran or shredding newspaper. Now I will actually try it, thanks!
SM from a small Indian city flat.
I recently saw that adding starch also suppresses compost toilet smells. Ours don't really smell if used properly i.e. sitting to pee or finding a tree. That said, trees supposedly only need two pees a year. If you are getting aphids that is a sign of too much nitrogen
Dfvg
Hey Simon, I wanna let you know I made the fertilizer using your instruction, and it worked for my bokashi composting. I' so happy . Thanks a lot .
Well done!
Mnasery so do tell the results please please please!!
Does it really help break things down faster???.....I wonder if this would work on grasses....instead of just throwing away nuisance Bermuda grass...bag it sence it very invasive...and innoculate it with this stuff for fertilizer for the Bermuda grass that's in the front yard....
We don't do chemicals here 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮
@@davidschmidt270 yes, it does break everything down faster. Run your mower over your grass to chop it up, layer it with bokashi. Works like a hot damn. After 6 weeks, or whenever your compost smells kind of fermented, dig it into a trench or hole, cover with several inches of soil. You can plant in that area within 2 weeks.
Another prime time to do this is in the fall after beds have had their vegetables & fruit removed. By the time you're ready to plant in the spring, it has already turned into rich, dark soil, and you will have many worms.
You can use the bokashi in a regular compost bin as well. Just layer it more with the 'green' layers so you have some moisture for the organisms to get going.
Thank you Simon for sharing this. I'm a Filipino living in Sydney and love growing and consuming things organic. I'm going to make this as I make big loads of Boakashi collecting food scraps from neighbours.
Wonderful!
Very good
Have a good day with neture my friend
🙏🙏🙏
Thank you so much. God bless you and your family 😊
To make EM-1 as learned from the "Future cannabis project" UA-cam channel.
- Worm casings
- LAB or Kombucha vinegar
- Brewers yeast
- Molasses
Mix all together but NOT the molasses
(Each input is 1 part)
- Add 20 parts water to the input, stir, then add the molasses.
- Keep at 26 degrees C until a pH4 is reached
Can you share the title of the video? I would like to watch it
@@rodrigoenciso1357 Sure mate! Search for "Future cannabis project compost deep dive" 👍🏻
Cheers Simon, thanks for the info on timing for application
We also dug out some of the solids, dug a trench , back filled it with compost and planted leeks.
The comfrey I put in came out like sauerkraut, really pickled, and the smell of the leachate changed again, more acceptable 🤭
Great upload my dearest friends and stay blessed 😍👌💫💫🤝🤝👍👍
Much needed video. Thank you!
Aesome video. Glad to know that sawdust can even be used. First time I've seen it done that way. Have seen it done with shredded paper, but would have to be careful as to what type of paper due to dioxins in bleached paper, plastic coated paper which is absolutely insidious now.
I made 50 LBs bokashi using wheta bran my first year, doing 100 LBs this year. Gave my local friend / nursery lady a small sample bag & she was shocked that her compost turned to soil right in her bucket within several weeks haha ;-) She now wants me to produce it for her business so she can sell it, which I am happy to do.
I have noticed many wild mushrooms popping up in my soil after using bokashi activated composting base. Such a good sign of healthy soil when mycelial growth is strong.
I made it straight away 👍
Legends
Jervis bay Australia
Hi Simon
Just a quick update from the folks at Mountain Apple , we sprayed the first of the leachate a couple of days ago,I picked the most bony and infertile parts, as it's spring and everything else is going gangbusters. We've had no rain,
And I have to say, the clover and plantain just shot up a couple of cm within 24hrs!
I keep checking it to make sure I'm not fooling myself.
We've set up a second 200ltr drum
Ha ha, yep its incredible stuff. Thanks for keeping us updated on your progress. I market the fertilizer as "bokpow" bolashi power. Its a great tradeable. You could probably get $10 a litre or easily trade for local produce...
Its normal to see noticable improvement of growth overnight and that keeps on going all the way through resulting in a 30 % increase in the plant overall. The key is to put it on in the early stages of the growth phase well before flowering.
Can you please tell me what a leachate is??
I live in the States
@@davidschmidt270 the liquid that comes off the bokashi compost. Typically 15% of the kitchen and market organic waste becomes leachate. It will have EM1 bacterias and a broad spectrum of nutrients based on the hopefully diverse inputs you put it.
@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia nice!!!
Currently experimenting on putting all my kitchen scraps in a big plastic bag and layering with sand from a canal that has ducks(for the waste) as well as brown tree leaves... periodically I'll unwrap the bag then re wrap the top part to put air in there so it won't go dormant...I leave the bag in the sun but it's been getting in the 40's at night ... something a lot of folks don't know about the deserts in the Southwest is it can get pretty cold out here ....is there any ideas or tips or suggestions rather ...that you would do with my experiment Sir?
Veri nice information I like your information I am from Pakistan
Kia ora from Aotearoa! Great video, thank you :) im new to bokashi, but I'm definitely going to do this once I find some Molasses.
You can use brown sugar too
Really cool, thanks!
Had no idea that even though I have all the components there, that there still might not be the right organisms there that I want/need!!
PS ....I'm a big fan of composting!!
YAY 👏👏👏
PSPS ....I heard a preacher once God told that He love's compost!!!
🎉🎉🎉
Thanks for helping me save some money!!!
i would like to see results on the use of anaerobic compost in the garden...mygreathanks and blessings
Amazing video! I'm on it! Magnolia, Texas.
Magnolia, Texas?! That’s where Jessica went to high school.
Brilliant stuff - great video
Hi Simon , I’m a kiwi living in Japan who loves gardening and it’s the first time I have heard about bokashi , i would hope some farmers still use bokashi here but they love their chemical fertilizers and apply it liberally on everything.
In order to become a organic farm here you just have to tell the government you will use 30% less chemical fertilizers on your crops ( crazy ) . So I will start using it on my garden and show the farmers around here the results that their is a better way :) .
My question to you is have you had any experience with worm composting toilets ? and also adding bokashi to the tank ? Basically it’s a normal flushing rain water toilet that has a tank that collects the brown waste ( poo ) and the worms eat the poo in the tank and the urine and waste water flows on into a trench with wood chips to use and replenish soil on your garden . Do you see any problems with adding bokashi to the tank with worms and will bokashi break down human poo like it breaks down kitchen waste and breakdown faster ? I look forward to your reply, Thank you and keep the videos coming 👍🏻 🇳🇿
Hey mate! That's a nice setup you have there. You must have some gradient to work with? I have done some trials with worms but not formally with mixing bokashi and worms intentionally. One tank once bred a writhing melee of tiger worms but I noticed that the fertilizer was of much less quality. It's likely that it did not have the bokashi bacterias. For your application worms sound ideal. Perhaps try applying bokashi at the end of a trench and monitor how the worms interact with it and how it breaks down compared to the rest. Cheers for the encouragement. We have a few vids in the pipeline along with the long wish list of projects. By the way I recommend following Ice Age Farmer on telegram. You will see that this year's chemical fertilizer production is way down and cost more than double.
youtube.com/@casapermaculture2219
EM1 is a specific consortium of microorganisms and is actually a brand name of a particular product. You are making a microbial innoculant, but it isn't EM1; they are just EM's. And thats great! I'm not sure using EM1 to describe what you've made is really fair to the people who own the EM1 brand. Love the video though and keep up the great work. The more of this very helpful content the better for the future of humanity!
To make EM-1 as learned from the "Future cannabis project" UA-cam channel.
- Worm casings
- LAB or Kombucha vinegar
- Brewers yeast
- Molasses
Mix all together but NOT the molasses
(Each input is 1 part)
- Add 20 parts water to the input, stir, then add the molasses.
- Keep at 26 degrees C until a pH4 is reached
@@JTNZ333 must have missed that episode, could you provide a link, as there are thousands of videos?
@@perpetual4958 ua-cam.com/users/livef02E1wlfRzE?feature=share
If that doesn't work type "future cannabis project compost deep dive". Start at the 25 minute mark and you'll be set.
@@perpetual4958 the episode with jethouse gardens & organic alexa has solid info 🌱
Can we use kefir or yoghurt instead
Hi, great video.
The process of making this em1 is similar to the LAB in knf. Is it the same thing?
Thank you so much for showing! 1 question: at 1:57 it doesn't look like 1/2 a cup of rice milk, the bottle is at least filled half! Have you then already mixed it with whey? Or is it just more? Thank you for advice!! greets from berlin!
Hi Annie, the proportion is one part rice water to 10 milk in the prescribed stages.
Kia ora Simon, thanks for the video
Thanks for this, I have a question: I see you get the whey straight from the cow (unpasturised) I have troubles finding raw milk, would the pasteurised milk work as well? I guess you probably need the bacteria pasteurisation would kill?
That was great guy's thankyou
Great video
This is what I was looking for, great video! I live in a country where the Amazon delivery(if it is available for my region) is more expensive than the product itself, this is why I want to make myself the compost activator. Is the sugar syrup the same with the molasses?The sugar concentration of the syrup has to be 30% ( I am not talking about the mix with the whey and rice water proportion)? Thank you and keep going with videos like this!
Yes you can use molasses its similar if not the same. At a pinch any natural sugar will do.
Ours is 50%
@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia thank you so much for answering me
excellent narration.
The uses of EM1 and LAB seem very similar - is there a reason for 2 solutions in KNF? very good video - understood it perfectly.thank you
Hi
I’m new to this and located in Carriacou sister island to Grenada. Very excited to finally get my bokashi going. I happen to mix up the instructions… First I let the rice water ferment for a few days. Then mixed the whey and the fermented rice water. That has now been fermented for about 5 days (very hot here so it goes faster). I know realize I should have added the molasses as well. Will it still work if I add it now?
Great work you are doing with your farm and videos 🙌🏽
Yes will still work if you add the sugar / molasses now
@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia Thsnks for getting back so quickly. Molasses is now added. Will it be ready to use or should I let us set for a few days?
@@MissJCarriacou you can start using it
I'm s excited to this. I live in a small remote town in Alaska and there are several horses here, but they are fed inorganic feed. Hoping em-1 can transmute the residual herbicides and pesticides! I'll be experimenting this year. any experience with this?
Geoff Lawton has made reference to compost bacterias eating pesticides. I haven't seen it under a microscope but think that makes sense. For instance we use white sugar to make kombucha and the end product is healthy (as tested using Chinese kinesiology)
There is so much online about em-1 and bokashi. Use a grain bran, newspaper, leaves, animal feed, or sawdust, whatever you have at hand to ferment the "brown" material and em-1, few weeks, then dry, store, and use for compost, compost toilets, enhanced digestion of animal feed, so many other uses and so many ways to make it!
super informative!
I made made some but didn’t use sugar. I’ll try with sugar now and see if if I get better results. Thanks
In the JADAM JMS preparation, they use mashed potato and sea salt in a paint strainer bag that they hang in their barrel of rainwater. The pH of the potato is 6.5 - a lot less acidic than sugar and molasses (3.5) - and a whole lot cheaper if you grow your own (don't use non-organic because they are sprayed to discourage fungal activity). With JMS, they use leaf fungus from the adjacent hills/mountains and from the property itself - that goes in the paint strainer bag, too. Those are free inputs and are already acclimated to the environment. Keep the great videos coming.
Very interesting
Whey has heaps of lactobacillus microbes in it already. You can skip the first part with rice and just go straight to feeding and stabilising the whey.
I just started with half a cup brown rice. I dont see the white coloring after stirring. Does that mean that brown rice cannot be used? Thank you! I found your film at the right time!
Hi Simon! A quick question - is it catastrophically smelly if air gets into the bokashi bin? My regular compost is placed outdoors, so a slight funk won't be a problem. What I don't have is an airtight lid :(.
I've made several batches of EM for toilet deodorant using your method, and then started using live yogurt whey(the liquid that separates out of the yogurt I set regularly) with exactly the same results. I've also been able to keep the culture nice and active by adding table sugar when I ran out of molasses. Thank you for the tips, it's a great help!
A used 20 litre paint pail usually comes with its lid and is free or cheap to buy. You can use several in rotation. That wont smell.
Hi Ruby, many farms do use em1 on open compost. Best if you cover it with plastic to reduce airflow and maintain humidity. You'll find out whether the smell is tolerable or not. It might be.
@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia I've actually tried using various fermented items in regular compost, and they all seem to behave just fine given good airflow, a covering of soil, and proper drainage. Vinegar solids, yogurt, LAB from yogurt whey with molasses, rice water, Chinese jiu-niang... my compost loves them all!
Then again, it was monsoon and I live close to the Sunderbans of Bengal, so the microbes were hyperactive to begin with. I'm just hoping that ground eggshells will be enough to keep the compost from getting inhospitably acidic. It took longer than usual for the garden worms to get into the vinegar solids, so that's a concern.
@@castafioreruby9937 sounds like you are well on the same track with all of that. Have a look at our video for how to use the bokashi. By mixing equal parts of dirt with it after 3 weeks exposure to em1 is a good way to make soil.
1 part fermented food in 3 parts dirt, directly used? I guess I'll try that on acid-loving crops.
Do you know about citrus peel vinegar cleaners, which Indians have popularised as 'bioenzymes'? I make those and use them as all purpose cleaners, so we get some use out of them between eating and composting. This is a good link.ua-cam.com/video/uwUUbY4I2kE/v-deo.html
Wowwww. awesome video !!!! Where do you leave??? it looks like a latin american country, I live in Bogotá! i found you looking for a solution to compost on little apartments and houses in the cities!!!! Congratulations. Keep It Up!!! Can i replace White Rice for "integral" or raw Rice? Molasses IS panela? 3rd question, the water or lixiviado gotten from compost how can be used ?
Hola Columbia! Yes just add water to panela to dissolve. Yes you may use any kind of rice. We are in Bolivia. Saludos!
very good thank you
Great, I make it similarly. Thx
What do you think about using the Bokashi materials/compost in a worm bin? I have ordered a 500 pack of worms to start a worm bin so i don't want to hurt the worms.
Thank u very much 🌺👍👍
Awesome video mate 👍 I have a small garden with a friend of mine and I was curious can you keep the mother and let the bacterias grow? Example: when you have like 1 dl of the mother put some sugar in it and add water to a liter and let is sit for a few days will that be the new mother? Thanks in advance
If you keep feeding the EM1 sugar it will keep living for sure.
From the EM1 you can dilute part 30 times and add 3% sugar to make more EM1.
@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia Do you mean 30:1 proportion? Or do you mean you can dilute 30 times? I think in the video you said dilute 20:1.
I am wondering if this can help prevent blight?
great vid, cheers
Thanks for the awesome video! Trying this out and I made about 1L of mother. How should I store the mother and the watered down em1 spray? Thanks in advance!
In any airtight container inside the house. Ready to use is good in a spray bottle
When doing a bokashi compost bucket system at home, what is the difference between applying EM1 spray directly on the food waste vs sprinkling bran innoculated with EM1? thanks
@@S0liD4CE I guess it saves a step if used in the compost toilet.
@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia Not for compost toilet, but just at home in urban area doing a double bucket system wanting to compost my food scraps. the ready made bokashi "zing" powder is a bit expensive and just wondering if having the substrate/medium does for the compost as opposed to just spraying liquid.
@S0liD4CE in a spray bottle is easiest for sure
As you can now make it easily, just keep refilling. Can reuse the leachate if high quality too
How long will these store and do you have a method of storing to make it last longer?
If you keep them in airtight containers in a cool shaded place they last up to a year. You can always add more sugar to feed it too.
Can anyone please tell me what kinda sugar was that that he added??
Was that molasses ?? 🤔🤔
TIA! 👍👍👍
Its like black strap molasses. Can use any natural sugar.
Can you make a video to prove that this stuff works ? Spray one plant and leave another without spraying to see results after a couple of months
You can see the difference 2 days later. The most graphic example was in a standard of corn. Where applied was 40cm taller,thicker and produced corn whereas the other didn't produce.
i love it
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Hi Simon,
I'm back with a myraid of questions!
Just drew off some of the leachate,and it smells,well, unfinished, not rotten, but not like pickles either, I've been still adding stuff to the drum, do I just need to wait some,or does that sound dodgy to you? The other thought I had was I've been spraying the dilution ( 1:20), should I be using the concentrate EM1…¿
Thanks 🙏 for your advice
Rob
Its a funny to describe smell. Not pickled. Definitely strong when done. Sorta stays on the hands for a day lol How long since last fill? Any insects or fungi? What color was the leachate?
Maybe use the concentrate.em1 as its cheap to make. If you are doing en mass then, sure dilute with water add sugar and wait a week for the bacterias to multiply. I suspect that in those variables is where it may have failed this time.
Thanks for your thoughts Simon, the latest update.
I checked on the leachate again after a few days and the smell has changed, not as foul, so maybe I was just panicking unnecessarily, it was only a couple of weeks since I added the last waste to it.
No insects, just had a look and it has white mold on top.
I've liberated another 200lt drum an will be getting the necessary valve and fittings to get that one started.
There's a lot of interest from the neighbors here, with at least one who's already started his own. I keep directing them to your UA-cam video
Oh leachate is a brown colour,
Awesome!
Such a helpful video, thank you. Can you tell me if it’s ok to use milk that has gone off, or does it have to be fresh?
Just saw this now. I would not use off milk as you don't know what culture it has.
Can one use rice bran instead of sawdust?
I put the molasses in after two days of fermentation with the milk by mistake. My brain just told me I had forgotten the molasses... I realized I was doing a mistake when it was to late. What to do now? Is the fermentation over because I added the sugar? Or will I grow other mikroorganisms? 😢
Come hai risolto? Anch'io non ho messo la melassa ora ho paura di avere pasticciato e dovere ricominciare da capo
i love the fact that you show it can be made shelf stable and just add more things to it to continue using the same solution mother .. however .. i became confused in the very beginning , you show adding the rice water to the whey ... then adding more milk after the initial week? sorry for the inconvenience .. but i am doing all the research i can on KNF and trying to learn to get away from chemical dependency in my garden ..
Rice water only for the first week.then the whey
can i use cane molasses instead of sugar?
Yes you can!
Trying to make LAB however the kerd not becoming solid. Any suggestions as to what can be wrong .
Did you start with rice water?
Are you using whey? Because it eill have little to no kerr of you are
Hi there you guys in Bolivia,
We've got our EM1 mix after a couple of weeks, and are keen to get out there on the farm and spray it about.
Just a couple of questions,
You mentioned adding some more sugar to the mix, ( we've used molasses)
Is this at the concentrate stage, and or, the dilute stage?
And,how much? A tablespoon?
Thanks for your support,we really enjoy your videos bro!
Great to hear Rob. Molasses is ideal. The em1 mother can be diluted 1:20 for use as a foliar fertilizer directly. Else can also be diluter 25x with water and 3% molasses. Even better for your next crop put with your kitchen waste and use that leachate. You will notice big growth from the day after.
Hi there,
We've procured the 200lt barrel and today I'll install the 15mm drain valve.
Do we need to put some sort of filter n the inside of the drum to stop in getting blocked?
Can we use the leachate immediately as it's produced?
@@robknowles6152 well done. Yep best to put some sort of filter barrier there. Also use a straight valve versus tap as its easier to clear if it gets blocked. You might want to elevate the barrel on an old car tire (fill with dirt else bees might nest there). We sometimes just put a 6 hole brick on the inside to keep the outlet clear.
Hi guys,
I hope all these questions are not a pain in the arse for you?
Here goes.
1. In the sealed drum ( which is about half full and displaying some white mold on top 👍), when can we start extracting leachate?
2. Is it best to Lock it up and leave it for 6 weeks, or keep adding to it?
3. Can we add just grass/nettle/ comfrey to top it up?
Let me know if this is tedious, and I'll desist.
Cheers
Rob
@@robknowles6152 hi Rob, good questions. No probs answering. Keep topping up till full with any organic matter. Would be very interesting to add comfrey. I try to fill the container within a month, adding more em1 periodically and leave it 3 weeks from last fill. Ideally fill it up faster.
Why did u use rice wash insted active dry yeast
Can you use EM-1 product without brewing it first?
thank you
There is a guy in Australia who just started his own garden is channel is called " The Weedy Garden " he has a solution similar to this. Has really good content to.. Do you do worm composting at all.? or raise meal worms for your poultry.? Keep up the video's pal.
Saw his channel too, he's great. We need to upgrade the chicken coup and change out nesting material. Once we start with that we want to try mixing the straw with food scraps as chicken feed. Just need to use further from the house for smell reasons
But definitely: solving the bird food do we don't need to buy grains is going to be key!
Hi Simon, im curious to know what sugar is that you’re using… it’s that molasses? Can you specify? Thank you in advance! Great video! 👍🙏
Hey, yes Molasses, brown sugar fine too and I guess even white at a pinch but not ideal
What about the expiration of the mother solution and the diluted one? Is it possible to preserve it?
You can always add more sugar if you need to store it longer. Else its good for like 6 months if stored if a cool place
Ad 3.50 min. you ad a braun liquid to your bottle. Can you tell me the name of it? …..thank you!
Molasses
Very good video and very clear your instructions! Thank you so much!!!!
I just wanted to ask if we can replace the milk/ whey with a herbal product. ...
You cannot to my knowledge
Oh...ok! Thank you very much!
Actually Jessica believes there is a vegan means. She will comment on that here in the next day or two
@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia wowwww!!!! Thank you Jessica! That s wonderful!!!! Actually I was thinking the milk or whey must be the source for the bacteria in the solution.All the others are the nutritions to grow the bacteria and keep them alive. Are the e m's in the Lactobacillus genus?
@@κλεγιακ hi! Jessica here! ☺️ The ingredients without dairy are organic brown rice, sugar, and non-iodized salt. You can UA-cam search vegan EM1 and there’s quite a few good videos with exact measurements. Woohoo!
Great video, many thanks. Spanish here living in NZ (Kapiti Coast) so really loved hearing youse speaking both languages so naturally.
I’ve been using my worm farm for many years but recently I’ve purchased bokashi bran (I’ll do my own 20l bokashi system with a bucket, the store bought ones are too expensive!) and I also bought 1l EM1 thinking I could do my own bran with some molasses in the future. I didn’t realise I could produce my own EM1 as well!
My Q is, can I use diluted EM1 directly in the veggie garden as a fertiliser? I didn’t see you applying it directly in the veggie garden, maybe it’s too acidic.
Also I could keep adding rice water and sugar/molasses to the original EM1 bottle and it would generate more EM1? Not sure if I understood this part well. Gracias!
Yes Em1 can be used directly on the garden. Dilute 1:30 with water and add 3% sugar. Wait a couple of days for the bacterias to propogate then spray away.
Sure you could keep adding rice water, milk and sugar but probably easier just to periodically start a new em1 mother when you are getting low. You will fill a 20ltr bucket up super quickly so need several. two 50 or 60 litre containers might be worth the investment particularly if you can trade with local farmers. Fyi I spent my teens in Kapiti. My sister still lives there. Enjoy, its a nice place.
@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia where's capiti ??
Sounds fun!!
I live a thousand miles away in Phoenix AZ!! ...hey brother I was wondering if I could just use regular sugar instead of molasses ??? 🤔🤔
Excellent video, that bottled sugar syrup is a little confusing but not to worry I have also read comments below.😀 Probably I'll go with molaasses as I cant relate to that bottled sugar you use. Can you post a link to a description of that sugar, so geeks like me could look it up. I love the whey idea as well. It sounds like I could use whey from strained yoghurt too, no?
Miel de cana is rehydrated raw sugar that can be bought cheaply in 3kg blocks here. I guess you could also use white sugar at a pinch but more natural the better. Here they call the block of condensed sugar "chankaka" In Equador they call it "Panela"
Yes you could use the whey from yoghurt
@@Kaiwaipermacultureboliviasi es verdad nosotros en Ecuador lo llamamos panela 😃
question...when u say 10:1 is 10 cups of milk for 1 cup of rice water?
1 cup rice water to 10 milk
got it thank you so much for replying so fast...blessings...@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia
i need something asap to get ride of my dogs peed odor. she is old and have accidents pretty often...the smell is killing me...but i remember that i watched a video lononnnnonng time ago that claimed tha lab get ride of pig "prerfume"@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia
Thank you mister. What kind of milk is used? Fresh milk or sour milk?
Fresh milk, can also be whey
Isnt this just a LABS recipe? I've seen videos on here of people making the exact same formula (letting rice water set out, combine with dairy, separate out cheesy stuff, etc), but they all call it LABS, or a Lactic Acid Bacteria Solution. From what I understand, EM is a mix of not just LAB, but also fungi and other helpful types of bacteria.
Lactic Acid Bacteria: Bifidobacterium animalis, B. bifidum, B. longum, Lactobacillus acidophilus, L. casei, L. delbrueckii subsp bulgaricus, L. fermentum, L. plantarum, Lactococcus lactis subsp lactis, Streptococcus thermophilus
Yeast and other: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Bacillus subtilis
Phototrophic Bacteria: Rhodopseudomonas palustris and R. sphaeroides
This is original EM1 - all of them eat sugar.
Nice one. There are definitely more bacterias in the original em1 but the three we cultivate work really well to form a core
i could ad yeast? like the one used in bakeries? and howto get Phototrophic Bacteria: Rhodopseudomonas palustris and R. sphaeroides
@@evawolf758 Phototrophic Bacteria is hard to multiply. I buy 1 liter of EM1 every year and multiply it like they said, and use the EM-a for soil. 1 liter of EMa I keep for multiply to use for sterilize the water and all the organics that use for soil or spraying.
don't worry about all bacteries. soli with lactobacilus is ok. and yeast eat the fungies. all is enough, even without original EM1.
i dont even use sugar in mine, still works. you can leave the rice water 2 or 3 days, and the bokashi is usually ready when mixed in 2 or 3 days, mine has always been successful, just take advice of video makers with a pinch of salt
That will work for immediate use but the sugar serves to feed the bacteria and thus keep them alive for longer
@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia need more evidence to prove this, no shame in just saying you copied and pasted what other video makers were saying. have you tested it, have you done a literature review, have you looked under a microscope?
@@thegreatest3651 I guess you know more than Dr. Teuro Higa the developer of the bokashi technique. I certainly don't have his knowledge on it but we have been experimenting with bokashi for 8 years and were seemingly one of the early adopters of capturing the liquid for rural agricultural crop fertilizer use (there were 4 studies on this use about 5 years ago). There was a general finding that one application increased production 30% in general. There are companies that sell em1 as a fert. It would be interesting to see a side by side comparison of em1 versus leachate from em1 pickled compost....maybe we'll do it someday. My hunch is that the nutrients from diverse organic materials pit with em1 will give more nutrients and a broader spectrum. pls Lmk if you have more insights.
I’m wondering if nut milk whey works rather than animal whey? Any idea? Why do you need to buy em1?
Great location and video
I am pretty sure it needs to be made with animal milk not nut nor bug 😉
Nut milk would give you a different brew.... might still work (might even be better(!)) - but microbial mix would be different...! Lactobacillus is selected for by milk. Why not try it and let us know how it goes!!
Can we use normal sugar ?
using Em1 how many days it takes to ready and how many days it takes to ready composts?
14 to make em1 and 21 to make compost for leachate. An additional 14 to decompose solids once mixed with dirt and covered.
Hey Simon, I've made rice water and have been let it rest in the cabinet inside the room for 4 days, but the smell of that was something like mold and sepsis ! Is it Ok ?! 🤔
Hi, did you have the lid on? You should, loosely. It will smell more towards natural yoghurt with a hint of a vinegar and astringent smell.
@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia I'm not sure about the smell of my rice water (still no milk added), but I put a tissue as a lid and put the jar in the cabinet with closed door. after less than a week (4 days), on the surface solid fermented material was formed . But I am trying the new one to be sure the smell is alike the previous one. Then I will continue. 🙂 Thanks for your answer.
is brown rice okay to use?
Yes
Mate, please keep an eye on the sound. I can barely hear you
Is your sound up? No problems from our end.
@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia I had the same problem. Could barely hear what was being said.
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I didn't understand your comment, right near the end, when you were at the toilet. You were talking about spraying. I thought you said "not on vegetables". Did you? If you did, then why can't you spray the activated EM on vegetables? I had been told that you can, and that it is very beneficial. Did I mishear you?
Em1 and bokashi leachate is excellent on plants in general. I wouldnt use human manure on plants to eat. If one must it should be fully decomposed and then uv treated.
@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia thank you
@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia What is the purpose of the bran or sawdust? Do you actually need it? Do you only need it for the toilet. I know people are putting EM1 in bran or sawdust and drying it and then adding it to the compost bucket. I wonder what it actually does if you can simply spray the EM1. Am I right in thinking it is not actually necessary because you can add the sawdust as carbon material later when you add the bokashi compost to your compost pile or bury it.
No need ro add the bran
@@anajinn the bran is just easy to handle and guests would apply it unwittingly with use of the compost toilet which is good. Its much more efficient just to have em1 in a spray bottle and to add that regularly.
Can I do this with brown rice
Yes definitely
What's the "sugar" .............mollasses ?
We use molasses but any sugar should work. Mire natural the better
How long will a spray bottle last
You can always add more sugar to keep it alive
what brand of sugar do you use?
Any type or brand would probably work. More natural the better.
for the bokashi bucket can you explain how i can make one
@@becool565 The original bokashi bucket included a false bottom with perforations in the interior one and a tap beneath. The second layer is unnecessary but does allow the fertilizer to be drained off quicker. You can use 20ltr plastic paint pails with their lids or larger containers with airtight lights as available. Then buy a plastic tap valve, perforate a hole and attach it near the bottom. Should include rubber gasket rings to seal.
Lol after going #2. I want a compost toilet.
Do it!
Is the sugar actually molasses?
Yes
But we actually buy blocks of pure sugar and rehydrate as molasses
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Hey Simon!
This is Mary. Thank you and Jessica for your great video! ❤ Since I watched it, I am trying to find molasse in my country (IRAN) to make a nice non-toxic fertilizer for my Bokashi composting system. I am very amateur in Bokashi composting.
I have a question :
Can I use some molasse (fertilizer) soil instead of liquid molasse ? I mean, mixed of rice water and milk , without molasse liquid, and then spray it on bokashi bran, then make a layer of bokashi bran on the waste food, plus a layer of molasse soil (which I've heard it is very useful and nutritious for expensive and special plants), and again, a layer of waste food, then layer of bokashi, and layer of molasse soil, and so on thill the end of process. Do you think it will work? I'm going to try it if I cannot find molasse in my whole country 😉.
Hey, if you can't find molasses just use any sugar. The more.natural the better.
If you have a good source of saw dust you can use that. Bokashi takes any organic material. I wouldn't worry so much about the layers other than to mix with soil or dig into garden. We have another video on the use of bokashi. Check it out as it may help
@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia Thanks a lot Simon! Sure I will check it. 🌹
I was advised to use only UNSULPHERED molasses, otherwise they say it will not work.
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can I drink it?
It wouldn't kill you.