Benefits of Compost Tea

• Helps our watershed soil and water quality by improving soil structure, which in turn increases water infiltration/retention, oxygen diffusion, and microbial activity
• Enhances organic taste of fruits and vegetables
• Creates a safer place for people and animals by using a natural approach to plant and soil health rather than using chemicals
• Disease suppression. Field testing is being done through Soil Foodweb, Inc. and through agricultural universities
• Impossible to over apply to plants and soil because it is completely natural and organic
• Tea-applied microbes consume and out-compete pathogens for plant surfaces and food resources
• Reduces application rates of chemical pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers.
• Increases the number of organisms on and around the plant to compete with disease-causing organisms. 
• Occupies the space around the infection sites so even if the disease-causing organisms do start to grow, they can't penetrate into the tissues of the plant.
• Since you are able to spray the tea directly on the leaves of the plants, this puts the organisms directly on the plant as opposed to adding compost to the soil around the plant.
• Portability-You can spray at a rate of approximately 5-gallons per acre, depending on the concentration of the your tea solution.