Make the most of your kitchen waste with the Bokashi process, which ferments organic materials into garden-ready pre-compost.

My first real introduction to composting was when my sister, Vanessa, buried some banana peels in our backyard as part of a science fair project in elementary school. We grew up with a compost pile in ...

Someone preparing a bokashi compost bucket with lots of food scraps. - Guido Mieth/Getty Images By just looking at it, bokashi and worm composting (vermicomposting) might seem like similar ways to ...

Bokashi, the practice of fermenting kitchen waste to use in your garden and landscape, has long been practiced in Asia and is starting to gain ground in this country. Contra Costa Master Gardener ...

Composting is the process of breaking down organic matter, like food scraps, into all-natural fertilizer. This is how to ...

If you’re looking for a way to turn nearly all of your food waste into nutritious garden food, bokashi composting is for you. Bokashi composting is not exactly composting. It’s really fermentation, ...

Homemade compost is a vital ingredient of any sustainable garden, but there is no one-size-fits-all approach to making it. There are several types of composting worth exploring – each with its own ...

Editor's note: This story is part of our on-going #WasteNotNJ series on reducing food waste in New Jersey. Common thinking that living a #WasteNot life takes a lot of effort is a myth, said longtime ...