All urban and agricultural centers need to find effective ways of handling the mountains of waste they produce on a daily basis.

Landfills can no longer…

While it may seem crazy in our food-rich society, global hunger is still a significant problem. Almost 800 million people around the world go hungry on a regular basis, that’s 1 in 9 people…

If you’re a gardening enthusiast, one of the best pay-offs of your hard work is getting out in the summer sunshine and grilling up the fruits (or vegetables) of your labour. Kicking back with…

Bokashi fermentation and the Bokashicycle system, are the most revolutionary organic waste disposal process on the market for both commercial and domestic users. By eliminating oxygen from the organic waste breakdown process, Bokashicycle…

Picking up pet waste is an important part of being a caring member of your neighborhood or community. Nobody wants to walk around streets littered with pet waste, and this goes a long way…

Sustainability is the process of maintaining balance in our changing environment. More than ever, people are thinking about the products they use, considering where they came from and who made them, as well as…

While more and more domestic gardening enthusiasts are discovering the power and effectiveness of bokashi fermentation everyday, the application of this revolutionary organic waste disposal process to industrial food producers is still in its…

Spring is just around the corner, and March is the perfect time for preparing your garden for the summer harvest. Whether you’re beginning a home garden for the first time, or kicking off another…

For those interested in making their personal or professional lives more sustainable, organic waste disposal is a key component of their sustainability approach. While composting has prevailed as the most popular and widespread method…

Does getting out in the sun, getting some exercise, having delicious food right in your backyard, and reducing your environmental footprint sound good to you? If so, you might not need much coaxing to start…

While the marijuana market is exploding, with more and more states legalizing cannabis for either medical or recreational use each year, one of the biggest hassles for those who get into the growing…

If there’s one thing that all pet owners can agree on, it’s that pet waste disposal isn’t exactly a state-of-the-art science. Whether it’s changing cat litter, or walking around your neighborhood with a little plastic…

As the new year rolls around, it’s inevitably time to think about the changes that you want to make in your life. Whether or not you strictly prescribe to a New Year’s Resolution, or use…

Bokashi fermentation is a revolutionary way to recycle your organic waste. As opposed to composting, bokashi fermentation is anaerobic, which means that air or oxygen is effectively excluded from the breakdown process. Instead,…

For Gardeners, Home owners, Farmers, and Industrial Practitioners in Organic Waste Processing

Much has been written and published on the subject of composting, gardening,…

If you’re still throwing all those food scraps into a garbage can…..it’s time to change. Do you buy plastic garbage bags and carry out a smelly heavy wet…

You can’t help but be impressed by the beauty and abundance of water on our planet.  And we know we’ve got to keep it clean and protected if we are…

Winter by Hendrick Avercamp, early 17th century.

We are once again in the dead of winter, a wonderful time to gather thoughts and contemplate the arrival of spring and summer.

A lot of…

Some of you may be curious about those microbes we keep talking about that do a lot of important work….metabolizing food waste and even pet waste.  Yes….that’s right.  You can ferment dog and or cat…

There are so many reasons to make the change.  We want to educate and inform those who have not yet discovered it, that there is an easy way to become a non-polluter.  It’s easy, fast,…

We are in the dead of winter, a wonderful time to gather thoughts and contemplate the arrival of spring and summer.  In the Pacific Northwest we are fortunate to have mild winters.

It is so…

In the midst of all the bad news about climate change, poisons in the water supply, soil, and food supply it is most encouraging to discover how creative we are in finding solutions to these…

How fast and efficient is Bokashi fermenting compared to composting or burial of food waste?  It is 10 times faster than composting and yields a far richer end product for your plants and garden.  In…

In a 3 part series I want to help you understand much more intimately how to bokashi ferment waste material.  Maybe you’ve been fermenting waste material and wonder how to get rid of the bones,…

There are many advantages related to living in the city, in a high rise condominium, or in a high rise apartment close to the center of town.  With a little imagination you can create your…

We’ve been talking a lot about all kinds of things related to bokashi.  In our last blog we spoke of Diogenes (the Dog) and summarized in our view how being uninformed or applying science inappropriately…

I’d like to take a little time to put it straight.  Searching for the truth is hard work.  Most of us are a little lazy.  We are busy and we may prefer…

How would you like to get rid of bad smells and stop the pests that go after your garbage (rats, dogs, flies and cockroaches) …and quit paying the city so much to hall the stuff…

We were talking about soil, the need for diversity in soil microbes to support and sustain healthy plants, and want to focus on practices that are least likely to adversely affect our planet.

We have…

We’re talking about TRASH! That’s right, about the scraps and food that end up in your trash can and then in the landfills near and around cities. The people involved in handling your scraps refer to this…

A lot more then you may have every imagined……..and it’s pretty exciting.  Maybe you think it really isn’t a big deal and not so very important.  Tell that to the…

Things aren’t always as they appear………or as we are told.  Like the scarecrow, the tin man, and the cowardly lion, we need good ideas, our heart, and courage to do what is right.  We are…

There, I just blurted it out……….there is something untruthful, something not being said about compost. Understanding and committing to practices that are truly sustainable takes courage, involves change, requires forethought and action but gives in…

We had a cold and long wet winter in the Pacific Northwest and summer was a long time coming.  It seemed as if everyone with a garden noted plants were…