Kitchen & Garden Waste – Rotting vs Fermenting with Bokashi
Most food and garden waste ends up rotting – which might sound natural, but it’s not ideal. Rotting waste releases greenhouse gases, smells awful, attracts flies, and loses valuable nutrients along the way.
But when you use Live Bokashi Bran, you’re not composting – you’re fermenting.
That’s right – just like pickling veg, you’re pre-digesting your waste with the help of beneficial microbes.
💡 Here’s the difference:
| Rotting | Fermenting with Bokashi |
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Smell - Rank, sulphury, attracts flies |
Smell - Sour/pickled, much milder |
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Nutrients - Lost as gas or seepage |
Nutrients - Locked in and stabilised |
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Speed - Quick fermentation, then breaks down fast in compost or soil |
Speed - Quick fermentation, then breaks down fast in compost or soil |
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Greenhouse Gases - CO₂, methane, ammonia |
Greenhouse Gases - Minimal – microbes keep things stable |
|
Pests - Attracts rats, flies, maggots |
Pests - Not appealing to pests |
With Bokashi, you can compost cooked food, meat, dairy, even bones – things you’d never dare put in a standard bin or compost heap.
At Wiggly Wigglers, we use our own live Bokashi Bran – made right here on our farm – to turn kitchen waste into living compost gold.
🪱 After fermenting, just add the mix to your wormery, compost heap, or trench it into your soil and let the microbes do their thing.
💬 Want to try it? https://www.wigglywigglers.co.uk/collections/bokashi-composting
From waste to soil health – the Wiggly way.
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