Because about 40% of our food in the U.S. ends up in landfills, producing landfill gas, or greenhouse gases (GHG). Composting our food scraps reduces GHGs and landfill gas emissions in our environment. It also generates nutritious soil!

Bokashi, which means “fermented organic matter” in Japanese, makes composting in urban environments easier: the fermentation reduces unpleasant odors, and all pre and post-consumer food scraps can be thrown in a collection bucket: dairy, meat, small bones, eggs, and citrus peels. Bokashi is a combination of different beneficial (effective) microorganisms and fungi, which we use to inoculate dry material such as rice hulls.

Yes! We offer consulting services and a Bokashi starter kit to get you going! Contact us for details and pricing.

Coming soon! You pick up a bucket Friday mornings, by donation. You can also pre-order for delivery or pickup by the bucket or by the yard. Email us with inquiries and to get on the wait list.

The answer, of course, is: it depends! In our case, we put Bokashi Effective Microorganisms in buckets, which starts the breakdown and “pickling” process that makes it unattractive to most pests. And with the lid safely kept on, no pests!

We are now doing residential curbside pickup! For a monthly fee of $20 and a one time 5 gallon bucket deposit of $15, we come by your house every other week, pick up your full bucket and drop off a clean one with Bokashi flakes in it to start the composting process. We are also happy to come by weekly for $40 /month if your household generates that many leftovers. See our programs!

Landfill Gas is roughly 50% methane / 50% carbon dioxide.  Methane is a potent GHG about 36 times more effective than CO₂ at trapping heat in the atmosphere. Municipal Solid Waste landfills are the third-largest source of human-related methane emissions in the United States, after oil and gas systems, and agriculture. Put another way, if food waste were a country, it would be the third largest GHG emitter, after the U.S. and China.

At the same time, methane emissions from Municipal Solid Waste landfills represent a lost opportunity to capture and use a significant energy resource.