Compost tea with Alyx Christensen

Fee: $20/$17 Members
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Compost teas are a simple way to nourish your plants: they provide nutrients in a readily available form, so they're quickly absorbed by plants' roots. Compost tea, made from plants from your own garden, improves soil biology and soil structure by boosting or replenishing beneficial micro-organisms. It can help to protect plants from disease and it can improve nutrient uptake – and this, in turn, improves the health and growth of plants.

We’ll begin by learning what compost or weed tea is, how it works, and the benefits of using it in your garden. Starting with an overview of beneficial plants to use in making your brew, we’ll follow a step-by-step process to make our own tea. We’ll each go home with our own compost tea starter to boost our early-summer gardens.

Dress for the weather (we hope to be outdoors in the Cultural Garden) and for gardening.