Pickled Compost

07/09/2026

Got food scraps GREYTOWN? You can now get Pickled to pick them up!

🎉 FIRST 2 WEEKS FREE

We’re piloting a weekly food scrap collection service for Greytown households and businesses.

No time, space or inclination to compost? No worries - you no longer have to feel guilty about food scraps going in the rubbish. We’ve got you.

You fill the bucket. We pick it up. We do the composting.
🪣 10L — $5/week�
🪣 20L — $8.50/week

All food scraps welcome — including meat, bones, seafood, dairy and raw+cooked food.

We collect every Tuesday and process your scraps locally, turning them into living compost and returning valuable nutrients to our soils. 🌱

Sign up by Monday 28 September 2026 and get your first 2 weeks FREE. Use code 2WEEKSFREE at checkout.

📅 First collection: Tuesday 6 October 2026�
📍 Greytown (but please enquire if you want this collection service in another area of Wairarapa)�
🌱 Limited pilot places available

04/08/2026

If you’re feeling a bit dissatisfied with the volume of compost you’re generating using an outdoor compost bin like these black bins, or an open compost pile - do I have news for you! 🗞️

Now this is not to cast shade on this type of setup. Composting using what you have is better than throwing scraps in your general waste bin any day! ♻️ This post is merely about how you can get more out of your composting efforts 🙌

Because the thing is, these systems are actually harder to manage well than people realise to generate a substantial volume of compost / soil. To break down the materials properly, they need the right carbon-to-nitrogen balance, moisture levels and manual turning to stay aerobic. Ideally you’d fill the bin all at once too because this helps get the correct ratios - esp. if you’ve just got one bin. Scraps added bit by bit over weeks tales way longer to mature - and with the balance off can mean full of half-broken-down scraps and barely any usable soil to show for it.

If you want a faster, simpler more guaranteed return - a soil factory approach is worth trying alongside your bin. Using Bokashi or pickled scraps mixed with soil in a heavy duty storage tote container mean roughly what goes in comes out, it’s fully sealed (so bye rats 🐀), no turning is required and you get usable enriched soil in 6-8 weeks! 💨

Think of it as not a replacement — just a better return on effort if you want one. Comment “SOIL” and I’ll send you a link to the latest blog on ‘How to make a soil factory’.

03/08/2026

21/06/2026

There are multiple reasons for using a bokashi but the one that’s sticking out for me lately is the odour. I still can’t get over how throwing all sorts of food scraps into the same bucket — including meat and seafood — ends up smelling like pickles. 🥒🤯

I already love eating lacto-fermented foods: sauerkraut, pickles, you name it. Not just for the taste but because the gut health benefits are huge. Turns out bokashi works the same way: it’s full of lactic acid bacteria, and once it breaks down fast in your garden soil, it supports soil health the same way fermented food supports gut health.

The other thing I can’t get over? Our general waste has shrunk so much my compost caddy is now bigger than my rubbish bin — and there’s no more gross bin juice. 🤢

So if you love pickles and hate throwing food scraps in the bin, I suggest following your nose and give Pickled Compost a try!! 😜🥒👃

09/06/2026

Love these rangatahi and their dedication to ensure valuable Kai scraps cycle back into the whenua. To support their mahi (where they provide FREE māra maintenance services for kaumātua) you can buy a bag of their Rongo bokashi flakes and/or starter kits - OR their beautiful maku organic Kawakawa balms 🍃 🥰 https://www.maku-organics.com/rongo

04/06/2026

Our collaboratively produced BONE Char is made from regeneratively raised cattle bones.

While a lot of these bones are made into nutrient rich bone broth or given to beloved pet dogs - finding a home for all of them is proving difficult. So while we encourage you to buy these bones for these purposes, we don’t want anything to go to waste!

That’s where Pickled Compost steps in - turning any leftovers bones into bio char or ‘bone char’.

What is biochar? 🖤🖤

It’s a stable, carbon-rich material made by heating organic matter (in this case, bones) at high temperatures with very little oxygen.

When added to your pickled compost (or bokashi), this stable form of carbon becomes a permanent home for microbes — which includes the microbes in your Pickled flakes aka Bokashi inoculant.

Because biochar (and bone char) is so porous, it’s also great at absorbing ‘funky’ odours from your pickled compost or bokashi.

Being able to turn a waste product into a soil enhancing product that enables the cycling of nutrients - particular calcium and phosphorous to become more available to plants AND a permanent home for your Pickled microbes is a very big win-win.

For more info check out the link in the comments below 👇.
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13/04/2026

BONE CHAR - using A Complete Cow A Complete Cow bones - we’re making our very first biochar product.

What is biochar?
It’s a stable, carbon-rich material made by heating organic matter (in this case, bones) at high temperatures with very little oxygen.
And yes - it can absolutely be made from bones.

Because biochar (and bone char) is so porous, it’s great at absorbing odours from your pickled compost or bokashi.

👉 Now, to use it - it does need to be “activated” with beneficial microbes. Which is why it’s perfect to add into your bokashi or Pickled system - where microbes can move in and get to work.

This not only helps manage odours… but also supports better soil over time 🌱

It becomes especially handy when adding higher protein scraps - like fish and seafood 🐟, meat 🥩, and dairy 🥛

So yes it’s a way to ramp up your soil health even more.. with just a little less ‘pong’ 😅

10/04/2026

Rongo Bokashi composting workshop NEXT week led by our one and only MokoBoys crew 💪🏽 See you there 🌱

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02/04/2026

Proud of this complete collab - featuring a new ‘joint’ product!! 🦴😜

*We think the 🐄 were a little too curious about it as well 😅*

We are turning A Complete Cow bones into a beneficial product for your compost and garden 🪏

Introducing our bio char or bone char! 🦴🔥🧡

When added to your pickled compost (or bokashi), this stable form of carbon becomes a home for microbes — the same microbes in our Pickled flakes or bokashi inoculant.

This means when your finished pickled scraps breakdown in your garden, the bone char provides the microbes a stable home to get to work building strong, healthy soil structure.

Why do we want good soil structure? Well this means your soil can:
💧 hold more water
🌱 support stronger plant growth
🌦️ better handle extremes — from drought to heavy rain

This is about more than composting — it’s about creating resilient soil from what is often put in the trash.

If you’re already using Pickled, our bone char might just be your next step.

👉 Follow along or search “bone char” on our website to learn more.


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18/03/2026

So it might not look like much BUT I it tasted so good!
The other night, leftover roast chicken became a quick Thai yellow curry — stretching this meal further with bone broth, vermicelli noodles, and some gifted silverbeet from a friend🥬 and yes, you guessed it - I had scraps.

Chicken bones, onion skins, citrus, were all ingredients that can go straight into my kitchen compost caddy, ready to be ‘pickled’ and ‘composted’.

Making the most of the food you buy is a big ‘nutrition’ motto of mine. And what a bonus it is to be able to feed the soil at the same time.

If you have a favourite way to use your leftovers that you find nourishing - please share away!