Thought bokashi bins were just hype until my neighbor's 2 gallon bucket changed my mind | Apartment Composting

Troy Adams · 2026-11-12T14:00:07.884788+00:00

I spent about 8 months doing the countertop scraps jar thing and it was a mess, fruit flies everywhere and a slimy puddle on my windowsill every single week. My neighbor in unit 4B let me try her bokashi setup for a month and the difference was wild, no smell at all and the stuff broke down in roughly 3 weeks instead of sitting there rotting. I think what sold me was the bran layer trapping the smell, because my old jar just sat open collecting gnats. I picked up a 2 gallon bucket for $28 at the garden center on Grand and I'm on my second batch now. The only catch is you still have to bury the finished stuff or hand it off to someone with dirt. Does anyone here split the cost of bran with a neighbor, or am I the only one trying to make this cheap?

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