Talk:Bokashi composting

Copyrighted Material
To help wikify this page, I removed a large section of copyrighted text from the emtrading.com reference site which gave instructions for preparing bokashi. It was very interesting, but it violates the policies and guidelines to simply copy text into the article. I also reworded some of the other text which simply plagiarized the references. This page has good potential - please try to avoid this sort of thing in the future. Indeterminate 21:45, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Molasses?
There was a line about molasses being the sugary part of wine or beer... I redacted it (it's not true), but the sentence that remains is somewhat opaque. What is the role of the sugars in Bokashi? I don't pretend to actually know, though I suspect it's something to do with kick-starting the culture. The use of the word 'inoculate' here is incorrect, though -- I defer to someone who actually knows about this stuff. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.87.21.56 (talk) 07:07, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Translation
Bokashi does not mean "fermented organic matter" in Japanese. First of, "fermented organic matter" is called "compost" in English. Secondly, Bokashi does not mean "compost" but "gradation". May whoever introduced this red herring to Wikipedia suffer an atrocious and ignoble death, secondly I'd appreciate it if someone could insert verifiable information about how this type of composting came to be called "Bokashi". Thanks, Maikel (talk) 11:19, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Compost is called 日本語 in Japanese. Maikel (talk) 11:23, 3 August 2009 (UTC)