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RE: This is how we Bookashi pt. 2
That looks like a big piece of work. We did something similar on a smaller scale in the bed where bamboo had been growing:
After all the roots had been axed out, there was a shallow depression which we filled with trimmings from the tomato plants and other vegetation, and then covered over with finest homemade compost:
The surrounding ground is very hard, but come the autumn when it gets wet, we'll fork it over and mix everything up a little.
I don't think we have enough food waste for bookashi, mainly fruit and vegetable scraps and eggshells. And teabags 😍. Everything else gets eaten.
It's similar here, that we don't have much for food scraps compared to the average household. I've gone so far to get the church to collect their coffee grounds and compost for me, which helps out.
We have been wondering lately what shops to with their organic food matter when it's like a smoothy joint like booster juice or jugo juice or orange julius... i don't know if any of those are familiar to you?
That's a good point. We have juice and smoothie bars here and if they are dumping the waste, that will be an expensive cost to the business. I wonder whether there is potential for a social enterprise that collects and distributes that waste (for some reason I have a picture of a bicylce and trailer type of arrangement)? I will have to ask my green friends.
It came naturally in our thinking about it.. I would think someone has come up with something!? I totally agree with the whole bicycle and wooden trailer idea! Some hemp twine tied around the ankles so as to not get caught in the pedals. :D
What climate zone are you in by the way @shanibeer?
Britain is in the temperate zone and we have a maritime climate - generally, mild wet winters and drier warmer summers, with four distinct seasons. I believe prevailing winds are from the west, bringing higher rainfall from the Atlantic to the west side of the country. Very broadly, the west side is more grazing land and the east side arable land. The climate is also affected by the gulf stream, and the very southwest of England has very mild winters with little if any frost and can support mediterranean plants normally found further south. Of course, this year was different with a period of very cold weather in the winter and now, a prolonged very hot, very dry period, although there is a general trend of more extreme temperatures due to global warming. We're not geared for either, so there is always great disruption when they happen.