FertileTea

Your landscape may be struggling to stay healthy, fighting a constant battle against diseases, weeds, and pests. Just like humans, plants need a robust immune system to stay healthy. Soil health plays a vital role in boosting plant immunity. 

Our probiotic tea, FertileTea, will bring life back to your soil. Teeming with beneficial microorganisms, FertileTea will revitalize your soil, restoring what Nature intended - a thriving, self-sustaining system. These hardworking microorganisms will take up residence in your soil, breaking down nutrients to feed plants and protect against diseases. Plants will gain a natural immunity for better health.

If you’re enrolled in our Organic Lawn and Plant Care Program, you’ve witnessed the cumulative effects of FertileTea on your landscape. Each application builds on the last by feeding and nurturing the soil's living system. Combined with premium organic fertilizers that provide balanced nutrition, FertileTea will keep your lawn and plants thriving year-round, creating an evergreen space.

In short, FertileTea is a liquid vermicompost tea dense with bacteria and fungi. We carefully prepare our tea using only premium ingredients. It is an actively aerated compost tea (AACT) brewed for 24 hours in dechlorinated water in a sanitized tank. The final brew can vary from year to year and season to season. The core components of the tea stay the same, but we purposely vary the sources of our inputs to diversify the organisms and produce the healthiest tea available. Feeding the smallest soil organisms at the bottom of the food chain creates a favorable habitat for the larger organisms at each trophic level. Fungi, acids, and organic matter work together to provide ideal growing conditions for plants.

• Worm castings – Worm castings are often referred to as “black gold” because they contain nutrients readily available to plants, always at a neutral pH of 7, and are coated with digestive bacteria and enzymes that feed other organisms. 

• Humic and Fulvic acids – These acids were once much more prevalent in our soils when there was more natural nutrient cycling than many urbanized areas now allow. They build stable soil structure which helps hold onto soil nutrients and also makes nutrients more available to plants. We like high-quality HuMagic® that hasn’t undergone any chemical processing to help build long-term stable soil structure.

• Mycorrhizal fungi – (pronounced like my•kuh•rye•zal) These varieties of fungi are much like the idea of gnomes, working all the time, but we never see them! These fungi form symbiotic relationships with plant root hairs, helping access additional food and water in the soil in exchange for plant exudates as food.

• Bokashi – Unlike worm castings and aerated tea, bokashi is a product of a fermented, anaerobic process that encourages different biological species. This technique was invented in Japan and has four decades of research behind it. We can’t wait to see the results on your property. Thanks to Southern Oregon Bokashi for making this available to us locally. 

• A Longer-Lasting Vibrant Lawn – FertileTea will extend the season of your lawn giving it a great look year-round.

• A More Nourished Lawn – The microbial activity in FertileTea helps break down nutrients, freeing them up for plants to use more readily.

• A Healthier Lawn – FertileTea will boost your lawn’s immune system, suppressing diseases and fending off pests more easily. A thicker turf also keeps weeds from finding a place to get a foothold.

• A More Resilient Lawn – FertileTea strengthens plant roots allowing them to burrow more deeply in the soil. Lawns with strong root systems are more drought-resistant and more resilient to weather challenges.