Pro
Pro--Kashi
Bucket Care
Your Pro-Kashi brand fermenting bucket
is made of HDPE-2 FDA approved
plastics. These are high grade, food
quality materials that will offer years of
service.
After you bury your Bokashi wastes clean
your bucket and lid with dishwashing
liquid and water. With the soapy water in
the bucket, press the drain button and
allow the liquid to flow through and clean
the spout. Rinse everything, including the
spout, with fresh water. The cardboard
and parchment liner does not need
cleaning. It is inoculated with the
beneficial microbes and not cleaning it
will allow them to be passed on to the
next batch of food waste.
There is no need to use bleach or
chlorine products at all. If you wish to do
something in addition to soap and water,
spray the bucket’s interior, exterior, and
spout with hydrogen peroxide lightly and
allow it to dry. That’s it. Clean up is as
easy as filling it up with Bokashi.
Bryan McGrath
Lawrenceville, GA 30043
Traditional all natural bokashi wheat bran
infused with Beneficial Microorganisms.
Pro-Kashi
No Genetically Modified Organisms
No chemicals, no preservatives
Safe, efficient, reduced Green House gases
compared to traditional composting methods
Bokashi
Composting year round (indoor and outdoor)
Able to handle materials not compostable by
Fermentation Bucket
other methods (meats and dairy)
Able to handle any amount of waste material
large or small at any time
No turning, low labor method of composting
Increases macro and micro soil biology, water
retention, organic matter, and bio-available
nutrients
Retains more nutrients in composted
materials through fermentative process than
traditional methods while adding plant and soil
ready vitamins, minerals, and enzymes
Composting anywhere (Apartments, Condos,
small or limited yard space)
Beneficial organisms outcompete or destroy
pathogens, creating a healthier plant/soil
environment
Pro-Kashi
Original Bokashi Composting
Phone: 678-796-4374
WWW.PROKASHI.COM
Japanese traditional composting inspired by
E-mail: prokashi@live.com Dr. Teruo Higa
 Thank You For
Choosing Pro-Kashi
Thank you for choosing Pro-Kashi’s
Bokashi Fermentation Bucket. Your product
utilizes FDA approved Food Grade plastics
in the bucket, lid, and spout. The inner liner
is biodegradable baking paper and
cardboard. There are 2 inner liners (one to
use and a spare for later).
A Choice
Your choice to begin Bokashi Composting
and using Beneficial
Microorganisms helps to
divert over 30% of all
wastes now going to
Municipal Landfills and
reduce greenhouse gas
emissions. Use Bokashi
to promote safe,
effective, nontoxic
natural farming techniques and soil building
alternatives to the use of chemical agents.
How
Bokashi composting uses naturally
occurring bacteria, yeasts, and phototropic
organisms to ferment/pickle organic wastes.
Guiding the decomposition process this way
prevents the loss of nutrients in the
composted materials, makes these nutrients
more bioactive and quickly available to
plants and soil organisms, while adding
naturally occurring beneficial enzymes,
vitamins, and minerals. Bokashi compost
feeds the soil which in turn creates a
healthier environment that feeds the plants;
allowing the plant to use its energy to grow
larger, healthier, faster without the side
effects of chemical usage.
The Process
Open the lid and remove the inner liner of your Uses
new Pro-Kashi Fermentation Bucket.
Bokashi bran composts organic kitchen
Fill the bottom of the bucket first with a thin wastes to include meats and dairy (not
layer of Pro-Kashi Wheat Bran Bokashi and possible with other composting methods)
begin layering organic kitchen wastes on top—
Bokashi bran can be used as natural kitty litter
no more than 2” to 3” deep per layer.
and odor reducer in cat boxes and small
Between each layer of waste sprinkle a 1/8 cup animal cages
or small handful of Pro-Kashi bran on top, press
Bokashi bran can be used to compost pet
down with a small potato masher, hands, or use
wastes in an outdoor digester. This compost
your inner liner to remove as much air as
cannot be used for human gardening/food
possible from inside the layer(s), Cover the
consumption; however, it can be used to
waste surface with your inner liner, this keeps
fertilize ornamental plants and flowers.
air off of the surface of the top most layer (this
is an anaerobic—without air process). Bokashi bran can be used by itself to
stimulate soils, compost piles, lawns, break
Snap on your bucket’s air tight lid—that is it.
down garden wastes, increase soil micro and
Continue the process of adding waste material
macro biota.
layers and Pro-Kashi bran until the bucket is
full. All the while the material inside is Bokashi liquid that is drained from the buckets
fermenting and being inoculated with Beneficial during fermentation is a living tea full of
Microorganisms that are digesting the waste. beneficial and bioactive microorganisms,
enzymes, and vitamins.
Every 2-3 days remove the liquid that will collect
in the bottom of the bucket. This is a living tea Bokashi liquid can be diluted and sprayed as
that has additional uses - do not waste it.
a foliar fertilizer on plants, flowers, soils, and
traditional compost piles.
When the bucket is full, allow it to ferment
sealed for an additional 2 weeks. Drain the Bokashi liquid can be used full strength to
liquid one last time and then simply bury the
remove odors from drains, naturally digest
waste 6” to 12” inches deep in the garden,
clogs in slow running drains, and added safely
mixing some soil into the waste and then to septic systems to increase their efficiency.
covering the entire mix with the remaining soil.
Bokashi composting can be done year round.
Do not let plant roots come into contact with the
fresh material for about 2 weeks when burying.
Alternatively add Bokashi to existing compost
piles, tumbler bins, or place in the bottom of WWW.PROKASHI.COM
raised bed or planter pots (place a layer of soil
or compost in the bottom of the planter pot first,
Bryan McGrath (1)4 Gallon bucket
then Bokashi compost, then a 12” layer of soil Lawrenceville, GA 30043 (1) Press to drain spigot
FDA Approved Food Quality
on top). When adding Bokashi compost to the Phone: 678-796-4374 HDPE-2 Materials
ground, mix some soil into the fermented waste WWW.PROKASHI.COM (2) Biodegradable inner liners
to assist in the final break down of the material.
After 2 weeks plant directly on top. That’s it.