Huge Grant Announcement! - Kompost Kids Inc.

Thanks to the City’s Eco Office, FEED MKE Pilot Project and the USDA Compost and Food Waste Reduction Award, Kompost Kids is adding Bokashi composting to our MKE community compost site.

Join our #BokashiBunch so you can #BokashiWithKompostKids!

We need 20 local households to pilot test community Bokashi composting in MKE. So we accurately assess capacity and grow the program, we’re asking pilot challenge households to commit to the following through late fall 2025:

Collect your household food scraps and add the supplied Bokashi grain
Drop scraps in our dedicated Bokashi pen at Kompost Kids: 4100 S 6th St, Milwaukee, WI 53221
Really important: Document your process
Build connections with other MKE composters and Bokashi households
Adjust and be flexible as we learn/troubleshoot
Most important: build healthy soil, reduce landfill waste and greenhouse gasses

Training & tools provided by us!

Space is resource limited so we can learn about, test, (yes, likely see some failures!) and troubleshoot the process. We won’t do it perfectly, but we’ll learn together.

Sign-up to be a #BokashiBunch Household: https://tinyurl.com/47t5wbha
We’ll connect with interested households by early April.

Pilot challenge households will reap the benefits: heaps of communally created compost (take some home!), and community building a more sustainable Milwaukee. From what we learn in the pilot, we’ll create free “train the trainer” model to scale up Bokashi in gardens and backyards.

We’ll keep the Bokashi program running indefinitely, we’re just asking pilot challenge households to commit to collecting and documenting their process through late Fall 2025. And, we will let the MKE community know when Bokashi composting opens up beyond these first households. — We just need to document the best practices first!

Can’t commit to being a pilot test household, but still want to get involved? Fill out our volunteer application instead!

This will NOT REPLACE our original community compost bins. Those will remain open to the public as always! This grant is made possible through the USDA Composting and Food Waste Reduction Program (CFWR) and supports the objectives of Milwaukee’s Climate & Equity Plan.