Al's Bokashi Blog http://www.bokashiman.com Al Pasternak?s blog about Biosa?, Bokashi composting and more! Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:51:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/fb_pwrd.gifSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with Live.comLinks for 2010-03-03 [del.icio.us]http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bokashiman/~3/1Jp6vY45Q_U/alpasternakThu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PSThttp://del.icio.us/alpasternak#2010-03-03<ul> <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz8tzP3oeDg">2010 Winter Olympics Montage - Stephen Brunt Video Essay</a><br/> get your tissue ready</li> </ul>http://del.icio.us/alpasternak#2010-03-03Links for 2010-03-02 [del.icio.us]http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bokashiman/~3/4UI043KkW8g/alpasternakWed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PSThttp://del.icio.us/alpasternak#2010-03-02<ul> <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VMxt-MqTiI">YouTube - The sound of Vancouver, when Team Canada wins gold.</a><br/> I love this ambient soundscape.</li> </ul>http://del.icio.us/alpasternak#2010-03-02 Hello http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bokashiman/~3/vtsDVK1rsY4/ http://www.bokashiman.com/2010/02/hello/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:30:47 +0000 Al http://www.bokashiman.com/?p=267 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Hello", url: "http://www.bokashiman.com/2010/02/hello/" });]]> New content below this post.

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Thanks for visiting. If this is your first time here, you can find information about bokashi in the top sections or on my website. If you have a question about bokashi or composting in general, send me an email and I’ll blog my response.

Feedback is always appreciated.

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Thanks to Carol Browne for the photo[s].


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  • A tete a tete in the comments section of my blog here: http://tr.im/POjn I have way to much time on my hands.:-) Join in! #

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    21Oct09 - My domain www.greatday.ca is no longer working. As a result, all emails to aap AT greatday DOT ca and bokashi AT greatday DOT ca are being returned as undeliverable. Send all email inquiries to greatday180 AT gmail DOT com My new website can be found at http://www.greatday18.ca

    What surprises me is that my email news alerts from Google and Yahoo were never canceled despite 4 four months of being returned undeliverable. Unfortunately, people are more responsive to bounced emails and I of know at least one sale lost because I was unreachable. There were probably more.:-(

    However, I could still be found by other means:

    Google my name [The Facebook profile is *not* me! :-)]

    Google bokashi vancouver

    and quite a few people did.

    My old domain is now parked and forwarded and greatday18.ca will soon become a Wordpress based website.

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  • Comment spam: “…the information is centrifuged in very coherent manner.” Maybe an information centrifuge could help in Iran too. #

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  • True Cost of Colony Collapse Disorder to Beekeepers - thedailygreen.com http://ow.ly/19qtE #
  • .@LingXei Glad you liked it.:-) Bokashi is great! #
  • When I figure out how to make the Domain Mapping plugin work in WordpressMU, my headache will go away http://tr.im/PdRw #
  • Getting ready to head down to LiveCity Yaletown. I’m hoping that the hockey game won’t preempt Dal Richards and Lazare Halk :-) #fb #

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    I need to respond to these lines in the article:

    Bokashi seems to offer many advantages, Hurstfield said. The catch? It’s not cheap.

    There are bokashi kits available through Internet dealers, she said. The costs of those systems appear to run at about $20 to $30 a month for all the supplies, substrates and microbe mixes.

    Here are the costs for the first year of bokashi composting using my system:

    Two bokashi buckets: $85
    4 x 1Kg Bokashi*: $30
    Total    $115
       
    Monthly cost:  $9.58

    *[two 1Kg bags are included with the bokashi kits]

    In the second year or, if you have your own buckets as Deanna does, all you need is the bokashi: $60

    Monthly cost: $5

    I’ve been generous on the amount of bokashi you need for a year. Although I say that a 1Kg bag of bokashi will last 2 - 4 months, I’ve had customers come back for a second bag after 6 or 9 months, even a year later. Recently, a small office re-ordered a bag of bokashi nearly two an a half years after their first purchase!

    While my competitor’s prices probably do come close the article’s monthly estimate for the first year, the cost in the second year is much lower.

    "If we can find a microbiologist who can help us figure out what is in there, we can cut the costs even more," she said.

    It isn’t hard to find what is in the bacterial culture used to make bokashi. This blog post from 2007 addresses the issue of making and using your own friendly microbe culture, as does Bokashi Composting.

    I have never hidden how to make your own bokashi which will lower your costs even more. I only ask that you buy the Terra Biosa Friendly Microbes [aka EM] from me.:-)

    Do it today!

     

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  • Hearing O Canada at Colbert b4 show starts. Must be 5000 or more here.Sunny day. Perfect! Mario’s Gelati is 10min walk away. #van2010 #fb #

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  • After Colbert on Weds & Thurs http://tr.im/Ornn visit Mario’s Gelati http://tr.im/Orog a 10 min walk away. #van2010 #
  • @Uistlady Don’t know enough about what doesn’t like bokashi.Each garden’s soil food web ecosystem is different. in reply to Uistlady #

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  • Buy transit tix 1st http://is.gd/8rofd to get on to Skytrains sooner.Lines to buy tix:10 deep.Lines to validate tix:0 #van2010 #
  • Amazing google map of Olympic events, free concerts, transit & more. What a resource! / via @VanMarkets http://icio.us/2hrnkp #
  • Create a ginger garden inside http://icio.us/wuve3i #
  • Heading off to Livecity Yaletown http://tr.im/OmrX . Hope it doesn’t rain to hard during the evening. #fb #

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  • .@Uistlady Dilute bokashi tea with 100x water i.e. 20ml to 2L etc. and your lawn will be fine in reply to Uistlady #
  • @Uistlady I would water it some more and/or wait until the next time you use the bokashi liquid. Nature has a way of compensating in reply to Uistlady #
  • In line @ King Ed stn. 3 train wait. #fb #
  • Crowds downtown: rush hour x 10. Long lines for WC at Waterfront food fair.Nice ppl @ Gastown photo are quick charging camera battery. #fb #

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