The Ongoing Saga of a Suburban Homestead: Making Compost Tea

Brew for two days (then pour or spray on plants as much as you’d like)

Equipment (mostly manufactured from petroleum, but you know…):

Handful of finished compost and water

5 gallon bucket

Aquarium bubbler (bubbler, tubing, check valve, stone)

Piece of teashirt

Stick

Molasses

The stone

The bucket, the stick, the tea shirt, the compost, the tubing

The bubbler

The complete setup

The bubbles

Breakfast goodies for the microorganisms