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The Bokashi Method to Prep Your Soil 12/14/2024 Sat 1-4pm

Saturday, December 14, 2024 
1 pm – 4 pm 
at Down to Earth Garden, 546 E 12th St (by Ave B) [map] 

We will cover application guidelines on the bokashi method for preparing your soil whether in late fall, during the winter, or early spring. 

We will make Activated EM (i.e., the bokashi microbes, aka bokashi spray) which is one of the main microbial applications to soil and organic matter (including fall leaves, plant clippings, twigs/branches, and food waste). 

Down to Earth Garden (a GreenThumb community garden) has had a combined bokashi composting system with El Sol Brillante since the fall of 2009. 

Co-sponsored by LUNGS (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens), lungsnyc.org, and El Sol Brillante, elsolbrillante.org.

Photos captions: garden plot 20 at El Sol Brillante from early winter through the start of spring — 12/31/2023, 2/25/2024, 3/10/2024, and 3/24/2024.

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Bokashi Composting Workshops 10/9 & 10/16/2022

As part of LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival.

At Down to Earth Garden (546 E 12th St, corner of Ave B, East Village/Lower East Side).

Bokashi Composting Workshops
Sundays, October 9 and October 16, 2022
1 pm – 3 pm

Visit the community garden, Down to Earth Garden, where bokashi composting has been on-going since fall 2009.

We will cover the basics and make the bokashi fermentation starter.
See how we recycle food waste, all food waste (including meats, bones, dairy, etc.), by the bokashi method.

For further information, see our bokashi process page, and also visit recyclefoodwaste.org.

To volunteer and get involve with our bokashi process, sign up here.

Visit LUNGS (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens) lungsnyc.org.

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Garden Work Day 5/22/2022 Sun 1 pm

Sunday, May 22, 2022, 1 pm – 5 pm

We will be focusing on our bokashi-composting process, including the following:

  • Digging lots of soil (soil amended with bokashi and leaf compost over the years) — volunteers can take some of the soil for their own garden bed elsewhere, street tree pit, or houseplants.
  • In the dug out areas, we will bury/trench fermented food waste, mixing with plant matter (leaves, clippings, twigs/cut branches), and completely covering with soil and then mulch on top. This will amend and build the soil for future soil harvesting. (There will still be soil left over after the covering.)
  • Treating dropped-off food waste with bokashi (to ferment the food waste).

Please wear proper clothing and shoes for the garden-composting work. We have gardening/work gloves, if you don’t have or forgot to bring your own.