greetings garden family & friends,

everything that we have learned in our training and our travels about how to be ‘good gardeners’ says compost, compost, compost!

want healthy crops…compost!

want high yields…compost!

want to minimize plant diseases and pests…compost!

and when all else fails…COMPOST!

to that end, we are blessed and most favored to have our very own ‘soil man,’ Mr. Myron Pierre (shown below).

Mr. Pierre is our site manager and is skilled in many areas (architectural artist/ builder etc.) but we are absolutely convinced that he makes the very best compost this side of the mississippi.

which is why he is the ‘SOIL MAN’!

these days Mr. Pierre has taken to ‘brewing’ a morning concoction for our garden plants called ‘compost tea.’ you can find him most mornings gently walking the aisles and lovingly sharing ‘a cup of tea’ with the we garden plants, and they do look HAPPY!



so...we thought we might share the recipe!

bon appétit!

we gardens compost tea:

compost (preferably homemade)

rainwater

5 gallon bucket

chicken wire or hardware cloth

wire netting

1. Form the chicken wire and netting to the countours of the bucket (WE Gardens intern Antonio Robiero demonstrates):





2. Fill wire-lined bucket with nearly-done compost.



3. Fill bucket with rainwater.



4. Allow to simmer overnight before removing compost from water. Once it's done, spray on crops and plants. ("If you leave it for more than one day, it gets nasty" warns Antonio.)

5. For "super compost tea," Myron says it's ideal to have an air pump or an air stone in the tea overnight to aerate the water.*

peace & gratitude

from the fields,

ama

why we garden:

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*Myron is a fount of knowledge about compost, soil and the history of strange gardening practices. Did you know gardeners used to fill bladders with compost and bury them in the ground? Come on by and chat with Myron for more info.