Justin Rhodes · Free farm guide

Our Compost Tea Recipe, Free

The same brew we put on our hayfield, written out for a bucket, a barrel, or a 100-gallon trough.

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Compost Tea: A Simple Farm Guide, with recipes for 5, 50, and 100 gallons

4-page printable PDF · Recipe, setup, brewing, application

This is a short guide from our farm. It has the recipe we use for 5, 50, and 100-gallon batches, the pump and air stone setup, how long to brew based on water temperature, and how we put it out, from a watering can in the garden to a pull-behind sprayer on five acres of hay.

What’s inside

Every ingredient with amounts for 5, 50, and 100 gallons, and which ones go in the bag versus the water
The equipment we actually use, including the pump, the manifold, and the cheesecloth bags we sew
Brewing times by water temperature
Simple checks for a bad batch, and why foam doesn’t tell you much
How we apply it, plus a food-crop precaution worth reading first