Bokashi Bran Recipe - DIY with Rice Water

You can make your own Bokashi Bran "from scratch" with this DIY recipe. The purpose of the bran is to inoculate the food waste with microorganisms to help them ferment - the main organism is lactic acid bacteria. My experience has been that this simple method of culturing lactobacillus from rice starch makes for an effective bokashi starter. I gather the starch from rice wash (rice water), culture the lactic acid bacteria using milk, then finally inoculate the wheat bran. When finished, the bran can be dried and stored for a year or more. This method is quite inexpensive compared to buying the bran in small batches commercially or even buying the EM starter liquid.

My comparison of Bokashi vs hot compost: https://youtu.be/zCHSpNwYm58

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