E.M, WHAT'S BOKASHI? | Using MICROBES to FERMENT GOAT MANURE

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Tap o’ Noth Permaculture - a Food Forest Farm

2 жыл бұрын

"It's not compost, it's bokashi"! That is the phrase of today's vlog as we're making our first large heap of bokashi!
Bokashi is a fertiliser and soil amendment that is made by fermenting organic matter by using E.M (Effective Microorganisms), a blend of bacteria and yeasts. We are super excited about this experiment - can it replace our compost making? Is it better than composting?
To achieve this we need to clear out all the goat manure and straw bedding from the goat shed, a huge task. Lucky we still have our volunteers here to help us. We also harvest some buckwheat that we are growing in the market garden, to add to our bokashi heap experiment, using our BCS two wheel tractor to move it over to the bokashi.
We didn't have enough time to finish making the heap so will carry on next week.
About Tap o' Noth Farm:
Hi, we're James and Rosa! Welcome to Tap o' Noth Farm, a quarter acre Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) market garden and 8 acre permaculture designed forest garden farm/homestead in Aberdeenshire, NE Scotland. We practice home scale to small farm scale agroforestry and regenerative agriculture methods to produce organic fruit and vegetables, raise dairy goats for all our raw milk needs, Shetland sheep and geese to graze our silvopasture and coppice systems and laying hens, moved around in a Chickshaw, for an abundance of eggs.
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@BenniLkitchengarden 2 жыл бұрын

I have used Bokashi for many years for my kitchen scrap. I love the method and I think this is more common to use here in Norway than in the UK. I get compost out of it and also a Bokashi juice I use as fertilizer for seedlings and plants. I have this year bought EM for use on larger amounts of organic garden waste. I do not (like you) get enough compost fast enough by cold composting. After fermentation, the fermented mass must be mixed with soil to obtain compost. I loved this video. A huge pile and a hard job. Well done, I'm sure you will have success. Plants grow incredibly much better with bokashi compost than in ordinary soil. It is in any case my experience. Thanks for the lovely video and I wish you the best of luck with the Bokashi.

@TapoNothFarm 2 жыл бұрын

Great to hear of your experiences with Bokashi and thanks so much for watching!

@EuropeanOnion 2 жыл бұрын

Aah you’re making Compashi 👍💪 (© The Weedy Garden)

@TapoNothFarm 2 жыл бұрын

Yes we are! :) I think that's the best description (compashi) as, while we might use a little of the fermented material, I reckon we'll leave it to mature into a bokashified compost.

@EuropeanOnion 2 жыл бұрын

@@TapoNothFarm looking forward to the follow up video!

@finnhalsall6659 2 жыл бұрын

Fwoar, what good-looking volunteers ;) !

@TapoNothFarm 2 жыл бұрын

Aye, they’re nay too shabby 😜

@DylanEtherington Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed this video. Well explained, you all seem natural on camera, and decent editing skills.

@BioGartenReich 2 жыл бұрын

Love your channel! Great work thank you for sharing! Nice greetings from Germany.

@TapoNothFarm 2 жыл бұрын

Hello! Thanks so much!

@mygardentutorial7303 Жыл бұрын

Great video.

@Supwiyaman 2 жыл бұрын

Just chilled int it🤟

@MMSY 2 жыл бұрын

thank you for upload naka very nice VDO.

@TapoNothFarm 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@zionmountainfarmky8210 Жыл бұрын

This is exactly what I've been trying to find!!! I have 2 horses since last July and want to learn to use Bokashi to promote decomposition and lower smell and make compost for my garden! (Foodforest/permiculture) thank you for sharing!

@yeagerxp 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome 👍👍👍Thanks for sharing

@susie9893 2 жыл бұрын

From all I've read about buckwheat it's supposed to be ok for goats to forage BEFORE it flowers. Once that happens, no good. Altho, apparently goats with white coats are particularly susceptible so if I had some like yours I'd probably keep them clear too

@veronicabalfourpaul2288 2 жыл бұрын

What a great pile! Can't wait for the results. Thanks for showing the process.

@TapoNothFarm 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@fionagrows1848 2 жыл бұрын

Really interesting! I’m looking forward to seeing how this works out.🤗

@juuritarha 2 жыл бұрын

Goats trying to fit in the doorway at the same time so funny I took a rewind! You guys keep on amazing, really riveting microbial love/bokashi/compost you're making! I've been studying and experimenting with KNF for a few years and haven't ran into many really cold climate natural farmers/fermenting-fungi funguys and fungals (actually practicing and flipping them piles!)

@TapoNothFarm 2 жыл бұрын

I know! They are always pushing each other out the way. Thank you :)

@ciaranosullivan7791 2 жыл бұрын

Another great vlog! I'm curious about Bokashi looking forward to seeing how it turns out.. That was a very hard day's work...

@TapoNothFarm 2 жыл бұрын

It was but so exciting to have such a big heap of (fingers crossed) goodness! Thank you for watching!

@TheVigilantStewards 2 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to updates on this!

@lesleywise5201 2 жыл бұрын

You are such hard workers. Looking forward to seeing how quickly you get usable material for the market garden. I've been adding bokashi to my compost for a couple of years now and thoruoghly recommend it. Also using bokashi juice as a fertiliser and drain cleaner.

@TapoNothFarm 2 жыл бұрын

Great to hear you're having success with bokashi!

@justaghost1014 2 жыл бұрын

As always I enjoyed the video

@TapoNothFarm 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent, thanks!

@lanethonur Жыл бұрын

You may apply EM on the deep litter during the accumulation phase in the barn as well. It might prevent putrification and help the goats to breaht fresher air.

@lanethonur Жыл бұрын

By the way the things you have done are marvelous 🎉

@clivesconundrumgarden 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video. Well presented and love the music !! Subbed !! Looking forward to seeing results. Good luck!

@TapoNothFarm 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!!

@Adnancorner 2 жыл бұрын

Have you tried pearl millets ? if your climate is humid then it can be a good option as a feed for chickens, feed for goats. Weed suppressor. Oh it is good for ground cover. You can harvest twice in 6 months as they grow pretty quickly and is excellent for bees and other pollinators .

@TapoNothFarm 2 жыл бұрын

No we haven't, sounds great though.

@TheShleafHerder 2 жыл бұрын

Loving this content guys I want a spot of my own now!!

@TapoNothFarm 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

@sylviabradley7355 2 жыл бұрын

Bokashi is new to me, very interested in trying. Thanks for the video💥

@TapoNothFarm 2 жыл бұрын

No worries! Thanks so much.

@mydanishgarden3112 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for introducing me to Bokashi, I'll be really interested to see how it goes and look into it further. I guess the old adage applies, it always takes longer than you expect, good effort from all 4 of you. 😊👍

@TapoNothFarm 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

@sharonwalton9487 2 жыл бұрын

enjoyed

@paulbourdon1236 2 жыл бұрын

I really like the idea that you are fermenting instead of aerobically composting it. Biggest thing about making compost is how much just floats away [as water vapor of course] but also while the bacteria/fungi do their their thing [CO2]. I'm starting to explore trying native inoculates from different environments into the compost.

@TapoNothFarm 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment - this seems to be one of the best things about bokashi, the lack of turning and thus release of C02, compared to large scale compost making.

@torg5511 2 жыл бұрын

Will be interesting to see how this turns out. I bokashi our kitchen scraps and love it. I use the liquid form of EM because I wanted to be able to use it to bolster disease resistance in my garden by foliar spraying and it seemed cheaper as you can make new containers of EM ad infinitum. The bottle said it should be used within a year, but here 2 1/2 years later and it still is working as good as ever. Might save you some money and make you more self sufficient until you start generating your own EMs. Best luck and love your farm and posts.

@kanrikanri639 Жыл бұрын

I have been using Bokashi over 30 years n my activated EM solution was effective, nice smelling, no change even after 17 years. Amazing stuff.

@nenemaria-cornfieldsgarden 2 жыл бұрын

I hope you had some beers chilling for afterwards, that looked like bloody hard work! I've seen people do the small scale kitchen scrap Bokashi but it'll be interesting how this works with a huge pile. Fingers crossed it turns out well :)

@TapoNothFarm 2 жыл бұрын

Oh yes, beers were needed! Thank you!

@simonhillam8791 2 жыл бұрын

Hi James and Rosa, Great Channel with a very inspiring presentation style, love it. My wife and I have a very young permaculture flower farm in Pembrokeshire. We have 3 goats and would like to follow your lead with the bokashi approach to our soil nutrition alongside composting. I have been on the Agriton website.... could you guide us with the exact products you purchased? Maybe post a link in your reply here?? Regards

@TapoNothFarm 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Simon, many thanks! We bought Actiferm, Edasil (clay) and aegir seashell from Agriton Home and Garden.

@simonhillam8791 2 жыл бұрын

@@TapoNothFarm many thanks 😉👍

@simonhillam8791 2 жыл бұрын

@@TapoNothFarm Any thoughts on applying to the stock bedding throughout the season? Might be beneficial to the animals and the fermentation process?? Check this out... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q85_hZZ_p7fRnas.html

@kanrikanri639 Жыл бұрын

Could you tell me how much EM solution did you use for 1cubic meter of organic matter? Did you make activated EM to multiply EM?

@yuialde9821 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video! But does anyone know if Bokashi creates methane? I would like to try something similar using EM but still haven’t been able to go for it.. heard anaerobic composting makes methane(which is actually worse than co2). If anyone has information please let me know

@gulsumdave5711 2 жыл бұрын

Is their an optimal temperature for the process, here in the UK,and especially where you are north of the border, the night time temperatures are starting to drop?

@TapoNothFarm 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, I'm struggling to find any info on that myself, but I have read that we don't want it to get too hot but like compost we also do need it to achieve a high temp for a period of time, at least to begin with....will get back to you with more info when my head's stopped spinning with the wonders of bokashi :)!! Cheers.

@Yomanchamcru 2 жыл бұрын

I was wondering along similar lines for my home bokashi bins. Best I could find was that effective microorganisms should become inert at 6 C, but I don't think it kills them. Really high temperatures, like if you were trying to sterilise a material or surface, will definitely kill them off, and that's easier to look up. As for optimum temps - maybe this experiment will tell us..!

@Lifegrowsonandon 2 жыл бұрын

Tune at the end, City & Colour cover?

@TapoNothFarm 2 жыл бұрын

I'm not aware of City and Colour, but this song is from a music licensing website so probably not?

@Soilfoodwebwarrior Жыл бұрын

Fermenting your organic matter isn't going to retain more nutrients or off gas less carbon. This is exactly the reason we strive to make aerobic compost is to preserve carbon and nutrients in the organic matter while breaking it down. A static compost pile is not aerobic composting, this bokashi method might preserve more nutrients than a non inoculated static pile. I use bokashi to ferment my kitchen scraps and then add them to my thermo compost piles. I use it as a way of preserving kitchen scraps, and not attracting pests by putting in airtight buckets.

@TapoNothFarm Жыл бұрын

👌

@Faisal_Afr 2 жыл бұрын

Look up Chris Trump on KZfaq, he does Korean Natural Farming on a large scale. Makes his own EM etc.

@TapoNothFarm 2 жыл бұрын

Cool, will do!

@bbwoolfy 2 жыл бұрын

Totally shoulda signed off with "bokashi next time!" 😜😅 Would comfrey speed up the process with bokashi do you think? As its a compost accelerator in regular compost. 🤔

@TapoNothFarm 2 жыл бұрын

:) Yes, I reckon it would...we're still learning if that is needed or wanted as I think one of the apparent benefits is that it's a relatively cool temp break down....time will tell! Thanks for watching.