The SCD All Seasons Indoor Composter is an easy-to-use composting bin made for collecting food waste all year long. It provides a convenient collection method for kitchen scraps, turning them into rich, organic material great for your lawn and garden. The SCD All Seasons Indoor Composter includes a drainage area in the bottom of the bucket that collects a nutrient-rich “tea,” which can then be applied as a fertilizer for plants. The All Seasons Indoor Composter can be easily implemented in an indoor environment, making it useful for apartment, school, household, restaurant, business or wilderness use.

In composting, the product neutralizes odors, increases the mineral content, and prepares food waste to become high-quality compost.

In the soil, SCD All Seasons Bokashi maintains high population of microorganisms, promotes germination, flowering, fruiting, and ripening in plants. It also improves physical, chemical, and biological environments in the soil and helps to eliminate soil-borne pathogens and pests, enhance the photosynthetic capacity of plants, and ensure better germination and plant establishment, all while increasing the effectiveness of organic materials as fertilizers, and eliminating putrefactive soil that stresses plants.

SCD Probiotics’ composting kit includes an All Seasons Indoor Composter and a package of SCD All Seasons Bokashi. The system uses beneficial microbes from the SCD All Seasons Bokashi to ferment organic waste as it accumulates in the composting bucket. The bucket fits easily under most kitchen sinks, so it is convenient to access right when you need it.

Fermentation (or pickling) retains all the energy (no heat loss) and most of the nutrients in the waste with no foul odor normally associated with food waste.

SCD All Seasons Bokashi can last for years. There is no expiration date. The wheat bran and drying process allow the microbes to become dormant until they are introduced to their ideal environment and food source. Keep tightly closed for maximum effectiveness.

If there is green, blue, black, or brown mold on the SCD All Seasons Bokashi, this indicates putrefaction, and it should be thrown out. However, if kept sealed and with minimal exposure to oxygen, SCD All Seasons Bokashi will last for years. (Not resealing your bag after you use it may cause a white mold to grow. This mold does not mean your SCD All Seasons Bokashi is bad. Continue to use as directed.)

Lay down an initial layer of SCD All Seasons Bokashi. Place fresh foods scraps in the All Seasons Indoor Composter and thoroughly coat every layer with SCD All Seasons Bokashi compost starter. Close the lid tightly after every use to ensure an anaerobic environment.

Once the container is filled to capacity, let the pieces continue to ferment for two weeks and then transfer into your garden or planter. Allow at least two more weeks for the fermentation process to continue in the soil before planting your favorite veggies, flowers, trees, etc.

Make sure to drain the liquid released during the anaerobic process from the SCD All Seasons Indoor Composter® frequently to prevent putrefaction of your compost.

SCD All Seasons Bokashi is designed for small-scale composting and could be used in anaerobic composting. SCD Bio Ag® is most useful in large-scale and aerobic composting.

A dry version of SCD All Seasons Bokashi is also available.

The All Seasons Indoor Composter is a unique indoor product used to recycle kitchen waste into an organic compost soil conditioner. The most effective method of fermenting is through anaerobic (without oxygen) fermentation. This process prepares the scraps for burial in less than half the time of conventional composting methods without any unpleasant odors.

Used in conjunction with SCD All Seasons Bokashi, the system provides the ideal conditions to activate anaerobic fermentation that accelerates the composting process, while eliminating odors and deterring flies.

SCD All Seasons Bokashi decomposes organic food waste in half the time of conventional composting and without foul odors. This unique composting method is easily utilized in any indoor environment, making it simple for schools, households, restaurants, and businesses to compost everyday organic food waste.

All Seasons Indoor Composter is designed to be used in conjunction with SCD All Seasons Bokashi; but SCD All Seasons Bokashi can be used in aerobic composting, such as poultry litter, improving garden soil, and others.

This versatile product is used for household composting, large-scale composting, agriculture, livestock, etc. Contact our customer team to learn more details about other applications of this product.

No. This is a good indicator that the fermentation is in progress. White mold is a sign of beneficial bacteria. Continue to use as directed.

Yes. In many areas of the world, the ground is too frozen in winter to bury the compost directly in the soil; however, there are still options. The secret is keeping the compost moist. Cover the entire compost pile with a thick sheet of clear plastic. In addition to heating the compost pile, it will also prevent rain from leaching all the nutrients from the pile. You can also insulate the pile with a foot or more of hay or straw instead of plastic, if you can protect it well enough to keep it moist.

Yes, we do sell replacement parts. Please call customer service at (913) 541-9299 or email at customerservice@SCDProbiotics.com to get a replacement part.

Yes, the fermenting food waste in the SCD All Seasons Indoor Composter will retain much of its original physical properties but will have a pickled appearance. Complete breakdown of material will occur once it's transferred into the soil and has been in the soil from two weeks to two months - depending on climate and soil conditions.

The waste will NOT decompose while in the composter; it will only ferment (or pickle). If you can imagine a pickled onion: it will still look like an onion, but because it’s pickled, it will have changed its internal structure. The single criterion to determine if the process is working is the odor. If there’s no rotting odor, then the fermentation process is working. The physical decomposition of the waste only occurs when the material goes into the soil. Here, it breaks down very quickly because the material has been pre-conditioned (i.e. fermented).

This liquid is filled with microbes and nutrients! After you dilute the tea, you can use it directly on your garden or potted plants. Or, you can add the liquid to the toilet or a septic tank. The microbes will work to make the septic system more efficient. If not applicable, simply pour it down the sink. The microbes will go to work on your drains and keep them clean.

The correct ratio is 1 tablespoon of compost tea per gallon of water.

Animals might be able to smell the fermented waste if you have not covered the compost completely with soil to assure further fermentation. You need to dig a trench 18" - 24" deep to bury the compost and mix the fermented material with soil as you add it to the trench.

No. The beneficial microbes necessary to the fermentation process and found in the food waste are all-natural and chemical-free. However, you’ll want to make sure the compost is buried deep enough (18” - 24” deep), so all your good efforts end up where they belong - in your soil and gardens.

As long as you allow the proper amount of time for the compost to become like soil, you can plant on top of your compost (two weeks to two months - depending on climate and soil conditions). If you plant too soon, your scraps will be highly acidic as they decompose, possibly damaging tender roots of new plants.

An alternative is to dig it up after the several weeks and spread it throughout the garden.

We do not use PCB’s (Polychlorinatedbiphenyl's) in the manufacture of our buckets. The black bucket is made from 70% post-consumer plastic and 10% recycled plastic and the tan bucket is “virgin” plastic. There is no danger of any material leaching from the plastic and contaminating the food waste and therefore they are not harmful to the downstream byproducts of composted food waste.

Click here Reference Guide to view the All Seasons Indoor Composter composting instruction.

Click here Helpful Tips to view the Helpful Composting Tips.

If foul odors occur, this indicates decay (a bad thing). Add a significant amount of SCD All Seasons Bokashi to try and reverse the process, or discard contents of bucket and start again.

Mineral rock salt in the product is required in the manufacturing process, but it just in a very small or negligible amount.

All Seasons Indoor Composter is an easy-to-use composting bin, with two color options: Black option - 75% Recycled Plastic soda bottles, ceramics; Tan option - Virgin plastic (BPA free), ceramics. The All Seasons Indoor Composter includes two unique features, the strainer and spigot, allowing the moisture released by the scraps of food waste to be drained out to prevent spoilage. All Seasons Indoor Composter dimensions: 16"h x 10"w x 10"d. All Seasons Indoor Composter volume: 5-gallon bucket.

Please make sure that it is purely organic waste that you're composting. Sometimes, if bones, cheese, coffee grounds, or other hard-to-decompose materials get put into the bucket, it will not produce compost tea easily. You will need to add more SCD All Seasons Bokashi. Also, try to add more fruits or vegetables.

You can use planters or a traditional conventional composter. In the planter, you need to layer soil, fermented compost, soil, and gravel in order from top to bottom then cover it with a plastic sheet. In conventional composter, from top to bottom you can have: soil, fermented compost, soil, then with 1 lb. of SCD All Seasons Bokashi.

More info is found here: Compost Made Fun by SCD Probiotics.

Yes, but we highly suggest to use SCD’s SCD All Seasons Bokashi while composting in your All Seasons Indoor Composter®. We do not guarantee results beyond the recommended guidelines.