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So in a burst of holiday spirit we took ourselves off to visit the famous teak bridge outside Mandalay. And sure enough we managed to climb off it and down into a peanut farm. Well, just a field really, on a sandbank in the middle of the river. Lucky we had some experts with us…Continue reading “Peanut patch”

Diana is our team photographer and filmmaker. She has a tough job getting us to behave but with true German perseverance she is putting together some great footage of our project. We’re hoping the short films she’s making will help us tell our story — both to spread the bokashi message in Myanmar and outContinue reading “Telling the story”

We visited this totally inspiring organic pharmaceutical farm last week. They use EM and bokashi and any number of smart organic solutions on their farm. Highly recommended if you’re in Pyin Oo Lwin. #bokashimyanmar #famepharmaceuticals #biologynotchemistry  

It was the end of the day and the mosquitos were coming, but this thing about banana tree trunks was interesting. Trash, they said. No way, we said. Let’s pull this apart and have a look. No question, this stuff would make perfect mulch. With or without bokashi it’s super valuable. So let’s see whereContinue reading “Banana tree mulch”

The Bokashi Myanmar team is just back from an impromptu road trip to a village some hours out of Mandalay, it was a total pleasure to be there and take part in their Thingyan. Love the kids! The back story is that Diana met Ashin Sopaka in Germany last year and they got talking. TheyContinue reading “A village with NO plastic”

Happy Thingyan from the Bokashi Myanmar gang in Mandalay!

On every street corner people are selling fruit, veggies, snacks, juices, you name it. It all generates waste! And while the streets are actually pretty clean, it ultimately all ends up at the tip. Which is a total waste of a fabulous resource. This is a pile of jackfruit skins, stacked up and already smelling.Continue reading “Jackfruit skins for the taking”

We’re discussing the sandy soil, and mulching, and growing mangoes. It’s interesting! This man is a gardener with an organic heart. For six years he’s been mulching the entire farm with rice husk from the family mill and also fertilsing the young trees annually with an agricultural EM bokashi mix made from EM, molasses, riceContinue reading “Mangoes, EM and rice husks”

Some people have the best ideas! Growing stuff in old pc screens — who would have thought?! They even have drainage holes! /Jenny #bokashimyanmar #crazygardeningideas#goodsoilneeded  

Street-corner recycling. This is outside the local food markets in Yangon, a vast and colourful area with warehouses, street stalls, sit-on-the-ground vendors and every type of food you can imagine. Here, the collectors have collected in a bunch of stuff and seem to be sorting out polystyrene, cardboard boxes, plastic bottles and some food bitsContinue reading “Organic, inorganic?”