A quick summary of everything that’s happened here at Bokashi Myanmar this past year — it’s a LOT! We recently had a visit from our bokashi colleagues from New Zealand and Belgium, and they were amazed that we’ve done – and learned – so much this year. When you’re in the middle of it allContinue reading “Bokashi Myanmar is growing!”
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Time to scale up!
Read our previous updates here! Happy New Year! It’s Thingyan! Here in Myanmar, it is the end of the year. This week we start a fresh, new one — after a few days of water-soaked madness on every street in every town. It’s fun, and happy, and so totally liberating! And it’s also a yearContinue reading “Time to scale up!”
It’s now or never, right?
Read our previous updates here! You can’t have missed that a 16-year old Swedish student, Greta Thunberg, is saying it like it is. The house is on fire, she says. And it is. Politicians, leaders, and everyone her parents age and up, have fiddled around for far too long, she says. And it’s true. ClimateContinue reading “It’s now or never, right?”
Exciting new projects and a new bokashi yard!
JANUARY 2019 Read about our project so far, it’s interesting! The November update here, October here, the September one here, and the back story here. Our mantra is that organic waste IS. NOT. TRASH. Every day it gets clearer to us just how important that is. The streets and backyards of Yangon are filled withContinue reading “Exciting new projects and a new bokashi yard!”
We’re on! Bokashi Myanmar is up and running
FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK! “Bokashi Myanmar” A lot of people are really upset about all the organic waste going to landfill here in Yangon. Each time a council truck dumps its load of trash collected from the dumpsters of this megacity the stuff that pours out is predictable. One-third of the load is plastic andContinue reading “We’re on! Bokashi Myanmar is up and running”
Bokashi Myanmar — the film!
We’ve made a film telling the story of what we’re doing here at Bokashi Myanmar — and why! (We’ll add Myanmar subtitles soon) We’ll be making more films in due course to show how you can do bokashi yourself, in your home or community or workplace. Hope you enjoy watching — and feel free to share!
We’re making Bokashi bran
(ေအာက္မွာျမန္မာလိုပါတယ္ေနာ္ We’re making bokashi bran! Admittedly it’s only a test production but it seems like we’re on the right track. It looks and smells as it should after a few weeks in the barrel and that’s a good start.
Great progress!
(English version below) က်မတို႔ပေရာဂ်တ္ပထမေျခလွမ္းေအာင္ျမင္ျခင္းအထိမ္းအမွတ္နဲ႔ဘိုကာ႐ွိျမန္မာအဖြဲ႔ေအးခ်မ္းတိတ္ဆိတ္စြာေအာင္ပြဲခံေနတာ။ ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ရက္သတၱပတ္အနည္းငယ္ေလာက္တုန္းက၊ေျဖ႐ွင္းစရာေမးခြန္းအေျမာက္အမ်ားရယ္၊
Bokashi at the Post-harvest technology training center
(English version below) မႏၱေလးအျပင္ဘက္၊ထံုးဘိုမွာ႐ွိတဲ့၊ကိုရီးယားျမန္မာပါတနာျဖစ္၊ရိတ္သိမ္းခ်ိန္လြန္သင္တန္းေက်ာင္းကဘိုကာ႐ွိေရးရာကြၽမ္းက်င္သူတစ္ဦးနဲ႔..Inda..ေတြ႔ဆံုခဲ့ပါတယ္။ သူတို႔ေတြ..EM..ဆိုတဲ့အက်ိဳးျပဳအႏုဇီဝသက္႐ွိကိစၥေဆာင္ရြက္လာတာႏွစ္ခ်ီ႐ွိေနပါၿပီ။ EM နဲ႔ Bokashi ကိုစိုက္ပ်ိဳးေရးမွာအသံုးျပဳနည္းနဲ႔စိုက္ပ်ိဳးေရးဆိုင္ရာတျခားဘာသာရပ္ေတြကိုပါဒီသင္တန္းမွာသင္ၾကားေပးပါတယ္။ ေရ႐ွည္အလားအလာအတြက္က်ေနာ္တို႔ဘိုကာ႐ွီျမန္မာရဲ႕တြဲဖက္ပါတနာေတြျဖစ္လာႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ Inda met up with the bokashi expert at the Korean-Myanmar Partnership, Post-Harvest Technology Training Center, Htone Bo, outside Mandalay. They have been working with EM for many years, run training courses in how to use agricultural bokashi and EM, along with many other subjects.Continue reading “Bokashi at the Post-harvest technology training center”
A new batch of bokashi bran
We’re doing a test production batch of bokashi bran in conjunction with Kokkoya Organics. Here Stefi, Inda and I are running through our recipes, we’re testing a few different combinations of rice bran, husk and EM to see what works best. Airtight blue barrels and a few weeks in this heat should give us aContinue reading “A new batch of bokashi bran”
Bokashi Myanmar 