For your kitchen & garden

What is bokashi composting?

A Japanese fermentation method that turns all your food waste — including meat, dairy, and cooked food — into rich soil amendment in just weeks. No smell. No flies. No mess.

How bokashi works — 3 simple steps

Unlike traditional composting which can be slow and smelly, bokashi ferments your food waste quickly and cleanly — right inside your kitchen.

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Add your food scraps to the bokashi bin
Layer any kitchen scraps — meat, fish, dairy, cooked food that regular bins can't handle. Press down firmly to remove air pockets and keep it anaerobic.
2
Sprinkle bokashi bran between layers
Our organic bokashi bran is packed with billions of EM-1 microorganisms. These ferment your food waste rather than letting it rot — eliminating odours completely.
3
Drain the liquid gold & bury the pre-compost
Drain bokashi liquid every few days — dilute 1:100 with water for a potent liquid fertiliser. After 2 weeks, bury the fermented material and watch it become rich compost in another 2–4 weeks.
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Why bokashi beats regular composting

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Ferments ALL food waste — meat, dairy, cooked leftovers, citrus, onion. Ordinary composting can't handle these.
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No unpleasant smells — fermentation produces only a mild, pickled aroma. No rotting odour, no flies, no pests.
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Two fertilisers from one bin — bokashi liquid (dilute for plants) and pre-compost (bury in soil). Double the garden benefit.
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Works indoors — compact bins fit under your kitchen sink. No outdoor space or big compost pile needed.
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Ready in weeks, not months — bokashi fermentation takes just 2 weeks. Regular composting takes 3–12 months.
Bokashi vs. regular composting at a glance
Bokashi ✓
Accepts meat & dairy
No odour at all
2 weeks to pre-compost
Works indoors
Produces liquid fertiliser
Regular compost ✗
No meat or dairy
Can smell strongly
3–12 months
Needs outdoor space
No liquid output
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Most composting systems tell you to leave out the hard stuff — meat scraps, dairy, citrus, cooked food. Bokashi composting handles all of it. It's a Japanese-inspired fermentation method that uses beneficial microbes to break down your entire food waste stream in a fraction of the time, with zero odour and maximum nutrients.

At Kai Kai Farm, we use gold-standard EM-1 from EMRO — the world's leading authority on Effective Microorganisms technology. That means every product in this range is genuinely bio-active, not shelf-stable filler.

What's in the range

Organic Bokashi Bran — our signature fermentation activator, available in 1.25KG, 2.5KG and 5KG. Handcrafted on-farm, it's the microbial engine that pre-digests kitchen waste and eliminates odours inside your bin. Available as a ready-to-use bran or as a DIY kit to make your own bulk supply at home.

Bokashi Bins & Kitchen Caddies — airtight 15L composting sets designed for under-sink use. The sealed anaerobic environment is what makes bokashi work — no oxygen, no smell, just fast fermentation. Our kitchen caddies make daily loading simple without disrupting the bin's seal.

Bokashi Compost Spray — a liquid microbial booster infused with lemongrass oil. Use it to kick-start fermentation, manage odours, or maintain a healthy balance in your bin between fill cycles.

Pet-Kashi — bokashi fermentation for pet waste. Our Pet-Kashi Bran and complete Pet Waste Composter Starter Kit let you safely compost dog and cat waste at home, turning what usually goes to landfill into soil-safe organic matter.

Cat-Kashi — an organic kitty litter extender and odour controller. Sprinkle into your litter tray to neutralise ammonia and extend the life of your litter using the same EM microbial technology.

Terra-Kashi — our most advanced bokashi product. A supercharged blend of minerals and microbial inoculants designed to be worked directly into tired or depleted soil. Think of it as a soil reset — re-establishing the microbial life that makes nutrients available to roots.

The Kai Kai Farm difference

Unlike mass-produced bokashi bran found in hardware stores, our products are genuinely bio-active. We inoculate fresh bran with EMRO's EM-1, in small batches, right here on the Mountain. By the time the bran reaches you, it's alive and ready to work — not sitting dormant on a shelf. If you're going to ferment your kitchen scraps, you want the real thing.

Got questions about getting started? Visit our Bokashi FAQ — we cover everything from setting up your first bin to troubleshooting fermentation.