Premium Bokashi Composting Starter Kit (Includes 1 Bokashi Bin, 2.2lbs of Bokashi Bran and Full Instructions)
$79.00
Price: $79.00
(as of Apr 11, 2025 02:20:54 UTC – Details)
Look no further, these are the original premium quality bokashi composting bins that started it all. The extra couple of dollars they cost for the improved quality is well spent, as compared to the cheaper Chinese manufactured copies on the market. You won’t find this caliber of bokashi bin anywhere else. It’s the quality and attention to the manufacturing process that sets our bins apart. No more splitting lids, cracking bins or failing spigots… These authentic bins are made of a high quality, food safe resin that will last for years and will not cause any leaching into your bokashi compost. All parts are replaceable should anything go wrong after the 1 year warranty period. This 1 bin bokashi starter kit provides everything you need to get bokashi composting started successfully in your home, office, school or community. Using 1 bin is the preferred option for kitchens that don’t generate very much food waste, such as single occupancy homes, offices and classrooms. Also its perfect for those gardeners who don’t have a lot of garden space requiring compost, like an apartment with a small patio. For all other households, especially those that have a front and/or back garden, we recommend using our 2 BIN SYSTEM, as using two bins allows for a CONTINUOUS collection of your food waste. INCLUDED IN THIS STARTER KIT ARE: 1 x kitchen composter, 1 x 2.2 lb (1 kg) bag of premium grade bokashi bran and our Complete Guide to Bokashi Composting. We offer all our customers lifetime bokashi support. Based out of Los Angeles for our American customers, and Vancouver for our Canadian ones, simply give us a direct call or send us an email and we will happily help you along the way if you have any questions. Bokashi composting, we’re passionate about it and it’s all we do!
Excellent value on this complete bokashi starter kit. This kit provides everything you need to successfully begin bokashi composting in your home. Included is 1 x bokashi bin, 1 x 2.2 lb bag of premium bokashi bran, and our Complete Guide to Bokashi Composting.
Using a single bokashi bin is an excellent composting option for kitchens that generate only smaller amounts of food waste. Note that for most households, our 2 BIN STARTER KIT would be the preferred choice, as using two bins allows you to continuously collect and ferment ALL of your food waste.
This kit includes enough bran to ferment at least 6 full bokashi bins, which lasts a typical smaller kitchen about 9 months.
This is a premium quality bokashi bin, custom made for us with a superior quality lid and spigot, ensuring that it is easier to use and durable enough to handle repeated use.
Don’t be fooled by the slightly cheaper, Made in China copies of our bins! While they may look the same (just in a different color), the quality is inferior and they do not hold up over time.
Customers say
Customers find the composting bin works well and is easy to use, making great compost for garden beds and kitchen food waste. They appreciate its compact size, with one mentioning it fits nicely below the kitchen sink, and one noting it’s suitable for seniors to handle. While some customers report zero smell, others find it overpowering, and there are mixed experiences with leakage. Additionally, one customer mentions there are no animals getting into it, and another notes the soil holds moisture better than ever.
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eileen –
Bokashi composting bin
Holds a lot of food scraps. Seal of lid works well. Arrives assembled. Bokashi bran seems to work. I add the fermenting bokashi to my compost pile or bury scraps in my garden bed.
Stephanie Maxwell –
The change we didn’t realize we needed
In 2020 after being stuck at home during a global pandemic our family started to look for ways to grow more in the garden and waste less from the kitchen. To slow the flow of food-related waste leaving our home for the landfill, we looked for some alternative methods for disposing of food waste and we turned to composting as an option. After doing some homework on how to do this properly we found @compostable.kate on Instagram and learned of the Bokashi process.Looking for a stateside option for Bokashi bins we found Bokashi Living on Amazon and started with a two-bucket starter kit. With a family of 5 (3 teenagers) and my parents in the home, we realized that we were going to need more than just the two buckets. 1 year later we added 2 more.We have made mistakes along the way (leaving the lid unsealed) and have had a couple of sticky situations with our buckets but the learning curve is fast and mistakes were easy to correct. We now fill our buckets every few months and process all the Bokashi in three, 3’x3’x3′ outdoor compost bins near our garden. The tea is used to either activate our compost or it is diluted and fed to the plants around the house when watering. We collect leaves in the fall and then use yard waste, chicken poo/pine shaving bedding, grass clippings, and Bokashi compost and tea to make amazing compost for our yard and garden.Our family has seen great results in our soil health since starting to use our Bokashi Living kits and highly recommend them to all households. We know our efforts are small but it feels good to not waste so much in the landfill and to be able to turn our food waste into something productive and healthy. We live in a residential area in a very dry state and can still make an impact.For transparency’s sake – Our only issue with these buckets was with the drain system which started to leak on a couple of our buckets a little over a year into use. I submitted a support email to Bokashi Living on their website on a Friday afternoon and by Monday of the next week, I had a phone call to my cell with a solution. No need for added parts, just a simple and quick removal/cleaning of the drain system and we have been back up and running with no issues. (Thanks Nick for the chat!!!)Our family’s food habits have changed for the better in our home over the past couple of years and I just can’t ever see it going back to how it was. Thanks, team for the awesome product!!!
Ozzie –
Easy, no smell, no food into landfill
Just started using this Bakashi composter a month ago. and itâs great. I purchased after I had to get rid of fish and shellfish after a power outage and could not put into the outdoor compost. Smell free, easy, only effort is putting food scraps into bucket, sprinkling each layer with purchased â pelletsâ, and once or twice a week, draining accumulated liquid from spigot (smells picked) which I add to outdoor compost. After a couple months, the bucket is ready to add to outdoor compost (or sand to compost pick up. I am pescatarian and will use for fish skin, shells of shellfish, leftover pet food. No food in landfill, which doesnât break anything down due to lack of oxygen and expels methane.
Uiop –
One bucket has begun to leak after a few uses unfortunately.
This seemed like such a great bokashi composter. We’ve used it a few times now and it has been great. Unfortunately, this last time, I believe probably the fourth time we’ve used these buckets, 1 of them started leaking and we have had to put a short cup to catch the liquid in. Sometimes it has gone over before we could empty it and it stinks and makes quite a mess. I haven’t yet contacted the makers of this product to ask about a replacement or replacement spigot. I just get so busy… it’s been messed up for several weeks, but I didn’t want to empty the bucket prematurely until the fermenting was done. I would love it if someone would reach out and help me fix this issue. Thanks!
Ben Capozzi –
An Awesome and Easy Solution: Worth Every Penny!
We LOVE these things! Outdoors, we have a static pile of leaves, grass and yard waste, but indoors has bothered me for a whileâI HATE throwing out food waste. And things are even trickier at our house because Iâm vegan and my wife isnât, so we have plenty of non-vegetable waste. With the Bokashi bucket, problem solved! Theyâre easy to use, NO odor when sealed and surprisingly little odor when opened, the bokashi system is awesome. It takes us about 3 weeks to fill one of these large bins (that still fit under our sink, easy peasy) and when the first oneâs full and fermenting, weâre filling up the second. With two bins, itâs easy to keep one in constant rotation, and they âpickleâ everything from meat and bones to pizza and fruit. It all breaks down beautifully in the garden in about a month (slower in winter), and you get âteaâ to use as a house plant food in the mean time! I HIGHLY RECOMMEMD this product! ððð
SKL350 –
Expensive…works great though
This system is expensive for the fact that it’s basically a fancy compost bucket…but it really works well. I got the two pack which was a good call as I could fill one and let it sit and ferment while I filled the other. I kept these under my sink and there was zero smell. Ill admit…BOTH buckets are full and have been forgotten about. Under my sink has been there about 6-8wks since I filled it and i only just now remembered it was there bc its just starting to have a very faint smell. The other bucket I forgot about in my mudroom until a few months later it also, started to smell lol. for an inhome solution, this is awesome
Maureen C. –
no smell outside container, get 2 to rotate
My first experience with this type of composting – easy to do. We collect scraps in countertop container (I use ice bucket with lid) and transfer to composting bin once a day and sprinkle with barley. Container holds fair amount, helps to have 2 in rotation so one is fermenting (2 weeks) while you are collecting scraps in the 2nd bin. It does have a kind of pickled scent – to be expected- but odor is contained completely by bins- you wouldn’t know there was any scent until opened – and I do recommend doing that outside. I had 1 bin arrive with missing inner straining tray- it was promptly replaced by seller and they also sent some mesh cloth veggie bags. The bags are intended to replace grocery store plastic bags that you use to grab loose fruit and vegetables. They weigh almost nothing and are so handy I’m thinking of getting more. Great experience overall!