How to Make Aerated Compost Tea

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"Earth Repair" by Leila Darwish is packed with simple, accessible and practical tools for healing and regenerating damaged ecosystems.
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Aerated compost tea bubbling in a bucket with the tea stocking clearly visible over the side.
Aerated compost tea bubbling in a bucket with the tea stocking clearly visible over the side.

Earth Repair by Leila Darwish (New Society, 2013) is packed with simple, accessible, and practical tools for healing and regenerating damaged ecosystems from contaminated urban lots to polluted waterways and oil spills. Compost tea is just one of the tools that can help you bind and break down contaminants in the soil. 

You can purchase this book from the MOTHER EARTH NEWS store:Earth Repair: A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes.

Actively Aerated Compost Tea

According to the Toolbox for Sustainable Living, actively aerated compost tea is a “water-based oxygen rich culture containing large populations of beneficial aerobic bacteria, nematodes, fungi, and protozoa, which can be used to bioremediate toxins.” Good compost tea should contain thousands of beneficial microorganisms; this increases the chances that some of them will be able to bind and break down the range of contaminants on your site. Compost tea allows you to amplify a small amount of compost into a dispersible liquid form, helping a little compost go a lot farther.

  • Published on Jul 10, 2013
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