Tag: bokashi myanmar
Our future up in smoke?
The theme for World Environment Day this year was air pollution. A HUGE subject that gets way too little attention. Which is really a pity. Maybe that will change now? There are so many aspects of it that it’s hard to know where to…
Hotel food waste is history!
Last week we took part in the Food & Hotel Myanmar expo in Yangon, a huge event with hundreds of chefs vying to be the best. The hotels, restaurants and resorts of Myanmar were gathered in the huge venue to soak up the inspiration…
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…
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…
Making a garden in a swamp
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…
Community bokashi: Let’s make an urban farm!
FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK! “Bokashi Myanmar” Within the city limits of Yangon, there is a community of some 20,000 people living without electricity, without water, and without waste collection. Even in this, admittedly, under-serviced city this is a low-water mark. They deserve better. Anyone…
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…
Making bokashi part two:
We’re making our first barrel of kitchen bokashi here and honestly, it’s this easy. We’re just putting it in the barrel, adding some bokashi bran to start the fermentation, putting on the lid and that’s it. We’ll leave it to ferment for a couple…
Making kitchen bokashi, Part One
Join us as we make our first barrel of bokashi here in our office-yard! We brought home some sacks of organic waste from the local market and are putting it in a barrel to ferment for a couple of weeks. After that we’ll mix…
Tea leaves = fertiliser
(ေ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…
