The Kitchen Garden Company

Many of you will have noticed that you can no longer purchase Bokashi Buckets, or Bokashi Bran from this site. At first this was due to supply disruptions and difficulties in getting the products. But after a while I decided that perhaps it was best not to continue to stock these items.

Let me explain. The Kitchen Garden Company is based on a small island. At first a mail-order element to our business seemed a perfect fit. However on second thought the extra shipping and mileage placed upon the items we were distributing began to weigh on our conscience. Items come on to the island via plane or boat, once they have been picked up on the mainland. Big items such as bulk containers of Bokashi Buckets means that more trips to the island must be made increasing the overall load of distribution for everyone. Once on the island, the packages are delivered, then I have to store them in a heated building to keep them nice and reverse the procedure to send them out again.

More than once people from the local area contacted us to purchase Bokashi Buckets and we made special arrangements and went out of our way to deliver the buckets at no extra cost, without ridiculously sending them through the post. In the end it became too much. What began as a venture in bringing cool “technology” to the farmers’ markets we were attending–where, by the way we found a great resistance to the ideas of Bokashi–had become a practice with a growing and unnecessary carbon foot print.

This is not to say that we no longer support Bokashi and we are continuing to experiment with it every day. We have expanded our use of EM and Bokashi on the farm and will continue to educate and develop new ideas about their use. We will also continue to offer Bokashi Buckets and locally made Bokashi Bran at our workshops. We are also planning on expanding our video series about EM and Bokashi and their uses. We are also working with one of the UK’s bigger suppliers of Bokashi Buckets and Bran in continued development of ideas.

In the future, when we relocate to the mainland (do you know anyone who wants 34 acres on a bay on an island?) we will resume offering Bokashi Buckets and EM for sale from our retail location.

However, in the meantime, we are more than happy to recommend our wholesale supplier, who also retail their product–Sustainable Community Development. For International customers please check here. They sell everything you need and more. Thank you for continuing to read this blog and supporting The Kitchen Garden Company.

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