DPL at Home: Grow With Us - Bokashi Composting brought to you by Green Dallas

This program is available online only.

Grow with Us is a series of online sessions from the Dallas Public Library, Seed Library and Dallas Environmental Quality and Sustainability hosting expert speakers to share practical, informative and inspirational information about growing and urban agriculture in Dallas. 

You've heard about composting but have your heard about Bokashi composting? It is a Japanese method that uses some equipment to ferment organic material without air. Bokashi compost is produced in 10 days and is highly nutritious and can be done now to make a super charged soil to plant a fall/winter garden. In this session, Virginia Kilgore explains bokashi composting, how to make raised beds for it, and how to make bokashi buckets. A picture of 'The Bokashi Raised Pallet Bed' at Cedar Valley College can be seen at http://www.waterisalive.org/.

If you want to be ready with most of the materials you will need: Effective Microorganisms (EM1 from Teraganix.com), a spray bottle, two matching buckets and one perfectly sealing lid per two bucket set. If you produce lots of organic wastes, find 6 matching buckets and 3 airtight fitting lids. You will need a drill, a drill bit and a trash sack to capture the micro plastics from the holes you drill in the buckets. The most important aspect of Bokashi composting is knowing what you are going to do with your compost after your buckets are full. We will explore 3 DIY methods of how to get your Bokashi back into the ground so that it turns your dirt into very fertile soil. You may begin planting very near the bokashi compost almost immediately after depositing it into the ground, and the moisture and nutrients from the bokashi will help keep your plants fertilized and growing strong! Bokashi composting will keep the stink out of your trash and help you do your part to keep the earth a paradise planet to live on. Please invite all your friends to this Bokashi adventure. See you there!"

Virginia is the founder of Water is Alive and is a ‘trash coach’ giving classes on Bokashi composting, worms and growing mushrooms in The Netherlands and in Texas. She is fluent in 3 languages, has two associates degrees, and has been a certified Alphabiotist since 1996. Her desire is to support environmental clean-up and the transition into a sustainable economy.