(ေအာက္မွာျမန္မာလိုပါေသးတယ္ေနာ္) Here’s an inspiring story. On a spare corner of a community wasteland (=dump, basically) in Mandalay this guy is drying used tea leaves. He collects them from local tea shops on a regular basis and brings them here to dry. Then he packs them all up in rice sacks and sells them asContinue reading “Tea leaves = fertiliser”
Category Archives: Projects
Hyacinths and waterways
(English Version Below) ဒီေျမေကာ္စက္ႀကီးကိုေတြ႔လားဗ်။ဒီဟာကမႏၱေလးမွာေရစီးေျမာင္းထဲကေဗဒါေတြကို႐ွင္းေနတဲ့ပံုပါ။ကန္ေဘာင္ေပၚပံုထားတဲ့ေဗဒါအထပ္လိုက္အပံုႀကီးဗ်ာ။က်ေနာ္ကိုင္ၾကည့္ခ်င္လိုက္တာ။အဲဒီေဗဒါအေျခာက္ေတြကိုသစ္ရြက္ေျခာ
Bokashi in a nunnery
(ေအာက္မွာျမန္မာလိုပါေသးတယ္ေနာ္) Another micro project we’re running is bokashi in a nunnery in Yangon. These nuns (one of them is Inda’s sister) live in a rural area and cook much of their own food. So they have organic mterial to take care of and hopefully soon a garden to use it in!
Cleanup day at Dala
(ေအာက္မွာျမန္မာလိုပါေသးတယ္ေနာ္) Just now Inda is at a community cleanup In Dala, Yangon. These cleanups are becoming a thing in Yangon and its great to see — every little bit helps! We’re in this area a lot these days, it’s the township on the other side of the river where the Chu Chu recycling and designContinue reading “Cleanup day at Dala”
Bokashi checkup at Chu Chu
(ေအာက္မွာျမန္မာလိုပါေသးတယ္ေနာ္ ) Three or four weeks ago we were out at Chu Chu, an entrepreneurial design and recycling business on the “other side” of Yangon, on a sandy lane in Dala. They have already started cleaning up plastic waste from the street and next step is to sort the organics and use it to makeContinue reading “Bokashi checkup at Chu Chu”
Cows chewing on plastic
ေအာက္မွာျမန္မာလိုပါတယ္ေနာ္ It’s hard to imagine anything more tragic than cows chewing their way through piles of plastic waste in the hope of finding some food. In the end they do find some, of course, but their life would be a whole lot easier if the waste was separated from the start. Plastics, recyclables, cow food,Continue reading “Cows chewing on plastic”
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.
FarmBiz: creating chemical-free farms
(ေအာက္မွာျမန္မာလိုပါေသးတယ္ေနာ္) Here at FarmBiz in the leafier suburbs of Yangon there’s an urban farm. Villas on all sides and nothing the least rural about the landscape. It’s actually a very cool place because it’s so unexpected. Everything here is chemical free.
First project here we come!
We’re off to start our first pilot project! Bokashi in a village street in Dala on the other side of the river. Like everything we do here we use public transport: train, bus, ferry and we walk. We’re bringing along a barrel for the fermentation, a batch of bokashi bran, and some charcoal to useContinue reading “First project here we come!”
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 