This Dame Cooks A Collection of Recipes from Alaska to the South Pacific and Caribbean

Most people know that water is a scarce and limited resource.  Clean water is essential.  We should do everything possible to conserve our water wisely.  When you allow water to vaporize and escape into the atmosphere the land from which it escaped is desiccated.  If you are farming and composting, a lot of the water you are using escapes to the atmosphere and you need to add water to the compost to keep it working.  That water is better used on your crops.

Municipalities with composting permitted sites are wasting water because it has to be added to the compost to keep the process working.  These requirements make it costly to compost and are totally avoidable.  The clean water you bought is being wasted and diverted to a process that does not conserve water.  When you bokashi ferment industrially or at home, all of the water contained in the organic matter (food scraps or pet waste) is retained in the sealed fermenter.

With bokashi fermentation, the water is being retained and in the metabolic degrading of waste material more water is being produced.  It is all retained and secure.  The bokashi tea produced is rich in nutrients and useful microbes and spreading it in the garden is a better use than allowing water to escape to the atmosphere.  And with fermenting you deliver virtually 100% of the nutrients back to the land with the water instead of taking fresh water out of the reservoirs.  This is just a better way of managing one of our very precious resources and it can be done now.

We already pointed out how fermenting conserves water.  The retained water in the system goes straight to the soil.  More water is generated (released) as the microbes break down the waste material.  You never have to add water to the system.  The liquid tea produced in the bokashicyclette can be drained off and diluted 1:100 with water to feed your house plants and garden or lawn.  Water vapor is not lost to the atmosphere contributing to smog and air pollution and the heating up of the earth.

Bokashi tea will also help eliminate odors in septic tanks.  The bokashicyclette collects the liquid produced during the fermentation process and a handy spigot is provided to remove the liquid.  Just fill a container with the bokashi tea liquid and flush it down the toilet or drain. 

Soil amended with fermented waste material holds water better requiring less frequent watering of the garden or lawn.