The Ultimate Guide To Brewing Compost Tea
Do you drink it? No!!!
Like composting, compost tea is a concentration of a natural process for human benefit. The technique is part of the biological component of a BioEnergetic fertility model. If you are a gardener or farmer and you have never heard of compost tea, consider this your lucky day.
What Is Compost Tea?
Compost tea is a living solution. It is a process that involves growing soil micro-organisms, or microbes, found in healthy soil and compost by aerating water in the presence of organic microbe foods.
All of these components play key roles in creating optimal conditions for aerobic microorganisms to grow and replicate. This is the goal of what is called Actively Aerated Compost Tea (AACT).
Microbes perform the vital function of creating soil, this does not just happen. Tending a compost pile concentrates this natural process, and compost tea concentrates the process even further. Performing the process of brewing compost tea is simple and a very effective way to increase the diversity and biomass of beneficial aerobic microbes in the soil and on the leaf surface of crops.
Think of soil microbes like construction workers. Your job as the contractor is to consistently bring them to the job site so that they…