Why Compost Tea?
Introduce Multitudes of Diverse Microorganisms who Form Mutually Beneficial Relationships with Your Desired Plant Species and Together Perform the Functions of a Healthy Soil Food Web Tilling the soil, harvesting crops and the use of fertilizers, reduced the original vast number and diversity of microbes that are essential in fertile soil. This reduction of microbes led to apparent need for and use of chemical fertilizers. The result was a further loss of friendly microbes. With fewer microbes farmers had to increase irrigation, chemical fertilizers, and to cope with insects and disease that followed, added pesticide poisons. This killed the rest of the natural microbes. The high cost, low profits, low yield, lost favor, lost nutrition, erosion, floods, plant diseases, threat of loss of plant species, damage to ecology, signs of damage to animal and human health followed. This sequence threatens the economic survival of agriculture. In nature from the beginning, microbes fed and protec
