Read about our project so far, it’s interesting! The October update here, the September one here, and the back story here. New projects and a ton of enthusiasm Towards the end of October the monsoon peters out and finally stops. Well, there have been a few surprise storms and we’ve had to run in allContinue reading “Making a garden in a swamp”
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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!
Setting up shop
(ေအာက္မွာျမန္မာလိုပါေသးတယ္ေနာ္ ) Setting up shop here doesn’t seem to be so be so hard. A cloth on the ground and a truckload of veggies brought in from the farm. But there’s a lot of competition, these markets in Yangon are big! And at the end of the day there’s a neat pile of waste byContinue reading “Setting up shop”
Fish for dinner!
(ေအာက္မွာျမန္မာလိုပါေသးတယ္ေနာ္ ) Some scenes from the Yangon markets. They’re hot and noisy and full of people buying, selling, talking, shouting, laughing and working hard. Turn the sound on! (And yes! We would like to make bokashi from the fish scraps😉) /Jenny ရန္ကုန္ေဈးေတြထဲကျမင္ကြင္းတစ္ခ်ိဳ႕။ ေဈးေတြကေတာ့ ဝယ္ၾက၊ ေရာင္းၾက၊ စကားေတြေျပာၾက၊ ေအာ္ၾကဟစ္ၾက၊ရယ္ၾကေမာၾက၊ အားႀကိဳးမာန္တက္အလုပ္ေတြလုပ္ၾကတဲ့လူေတြရဲ႕ အသံဗလံေပါင္းစံုနဲ႔ဆူညံၿပီး၊ ပူလည္းပူအိုက္ပါတယ္။ အသံသာတစ္ခ်က္ဖြင့္ၾကည့္လိုက္ေတာ့ဗ်ိဳ႕ သိရေအာင္။ (ေျပာရရင္ေတာ့..အင္း…အဲဒီငါးအႂကြင္းက်န္ေတြကေန ဘိုကာ႐ွီလုပ္ခ်င္တာေပါ့ဗ်ာ။) #bokashimyanmarContinue reading “Fish for dinner!”
Beautiful Yangon flowers
(😊ေအာက္မွာျမန္မာလိုပါေသးတယ္ေနာ္ 😊😊) Yangon markets! So many beautiful flowers. But even they have their time, and when they’re no longer fresh and lovely we could at least make bokashi of them and return them to the soil.
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”
Urban farming at best
Urban farming is coming to life in Yangon — and it’s social too. Yesterday, FarmBiz had their first networking event at their farm and ”showcase”; their business idea is to help and inspire others to start chemical free farms in Myanmar. Cool initiative! Next time we hope to have a table there and share ourContinue reading “Urban farming at best”
Chemical free in Yangon
Some photos from the gathering at FarmBiz yesterday, an urban farm in suburban Yangon. They grow really healthy, chemical-free vegetables and are on a mission to inspire others to start farming the organic way around the country. Fresh and healthy, but beautiful too. We really like this farm! /Jenny #bokashimyanmar #urbanfarm #yangon
Even trash has a value
Recycling, Myanmar style. This is over the river on the Dala side of Yangon. Hard to get a grip on it all, but many people are involved in collecting, sorting and reselling trash. Some things, like glass and PET bottles have a value of sorts. Heaps of other stuff doesn’t. Soft plastic especially. Organic wasteContinue reading “Even trash has a value”
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