Compost Tea- Safe for Children, Pets & All Living Things

Compost tea can be described as a highly concentrated liquid compost solution, comprised of trillions of beneficial microbes, which can be applied as a fertilizer to any plant life, resulting in an increase of the carbon content of soil. Increasing carbon means increasing the life of the soil. Compost tea is a closed loop system which takes food scraps that would otherwise end up in a landfill (generating atmospheric methane) and returns the food scraps to the soil where they belong. Compost Tea is a safe, organic alternative to chemical fertilizers.

When compost tea is applied to soil; organic matter increases, microbial life proliferates, soil texture improves, roots go deeper, worms drag organic matter down their holes and make rich castings of nitrogen, nutrient uptake is enhanced, and water retention increases several fold (creating drought tolerant insurance). Most importantly nourished plants are more pest and disease resistant.   

Just like humans, plants also have an immune system. Plants that are grown in healthy soil are more likely to have a strong immune system that can fight off diseases and resist the damages of pests. Nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, chemical based fertilizers (NPK) are dead fertilizers, whereas compost tea contains trillions of beneficial microbes that work tirelessly to transform soil. Living fertilizers, such as compost tea, help reestablish the microbial community of the land. Dead fertilizers, commonly used by commercial fertilization companies, deplete soil. Depleted soil is the root cause of plant disease and increases the likelihood of weeds. Therefore, Compost Tea reduces reliance on herbicides, such as Roundup, and nitrogen based chemical fertilizers. The use of Roundup and chemical fertilizers create a vicious cycle of soil depletion, where the solution appears to be adding more chemicals, resulting in further depletion of the soil. Simply put, using chemical products to solve problems in nature is a trap, in which the same thing that created the problem (chemicals) are being sold as the solution to the problems they created in the first place, it truly is a vicious cycle. Compost tea is a natural solution to any and all problems your landscape faces because compost tea draws from 4.5 billion years of planetary research and development. One of the greatest tragedies in the history of the Earth is that the hundreds of millions of years that it took for the planet to form our top-soil has been completely depleted in less than 100 years by chemical fertilizers and herbicides. Roundup acts as an antibiotic and releases carbon from the soil whereas compost tea acts as a probiotic and stores carbon in the soil. The use of Glyphosate aka Roundup, a derivative of Agent Orange, is the most well-known and commonly used pesticide and herbicide in the world. The increase of this crude technology is a result of Roundup resistant genetically modified crops, which are poisoning our food, environment and watersheds. Over 1 billion lbs of cancer causing Roundup are sprayed every year and can be found in our drinking water. Yet, Roundup is still promoted a “safe” despite overwhelming evidence of serious harm to human health and the environment. 

Due to chemical/industrial agriculture practices, 1/3 of the worlds topsoil has been lost since 1970. With over 2/3 of the world now desertified, soon billions will become soil refugees. Poor land management plus rising populations leaves future generations vulnerable to food insecurities. The worlds remaining top soil will be gone in 60 years according to the FDA, leaving only 60 harvests left.  The brewing and application of compost tea is a regenerative agricultural best practice and a mechanism of bio-sequestration through simple, long-proven ways to keep carbon sequestered in the soil which addresses all common concerns about fertility, pests, drought, weeds, and yield. Regenerative agriculture can be described as practices which restore degraded lands and processes which improve the resources it uses, rather than destroying or depleting them. It is a holistic systems approach to agriculture that encourages continual on-farm innovation for environmental, social, economic and spiritual well-being. No other mechanism known to humankind is as effective in addressing global warming as capturing carbon dioxide from the air and storing it in the soil.

The impacts of regenerative agriculture are hard to measure… the results, however, are impressive. Farms are seeing organic matter levels rise from a baseline of 1 to 2 percent up to 5 to 8 percent over ten years. Every percent of carbon in the soil represents 8.5 tons of carbon per acre. That growth adds up to 25 to 60 tons of carbon per acre over time. From an estimated 108 million acres of current adoption, we estimate regenerative agriculture to increase to a total of 1 billion acres by 2050. This rapid adoption is based in part on the historic growth rate of organic agriculture to regenerative agriculture over time. This increase could result in a total reduction of 23.2 gigatons of carbon dioxide, from both sequestration and reduced emissions. Regenerative agriculture could provide a $1.9 trillion financial return by 2050 on an investment of $57 billion. It is clear that we can solve the climate crisis and do it in ways that are profitable. To anyone who realizes how dire the climate crisis is, regenerative agriculture is exciting. The possibility that respecting and using the services of intact ecosystems might save us is almost a miracle.