A fellow member of Sustainalane introduced me to Merill’s All-Natural Compost Tea. Sustainalane is a community-powered directory of green products and businesses. Anyone can create a profile and contribute to the ever-growing directory.
This is not the first time I’ve heard of “compost tea,” but Merill’s is all organic and can be delivered right to your door.
“Compost Tea is an organic, nutritionally rich, highly-concentrated liquid extract made by steeping aged compost in water. When the tea is made with well-balanced, aged, premium-quality compost, it is alive and teaming with healthy microorganisms and nutrients your soil and plants crave. The tea can be used in place of water when watering your plants, either as a root drench or directly on the foliage. The nutrient-rich tea is readily absorbed into the roots and foliage of your plants for almost immediate results!”
Another green company, TerraCycle, produces Worm Tea. They even re-use old plastic soda bottles as packaging for the product. The idea for the company was conceived by two students from Princeton University. The young students began by reprocessing solid waste from the university’s dining halls and by the end of their summer experiment they had reduced the time it took to recycle waste from 1 year to 14 days.
How did they do it? Vermiculture! TerraCycle manufactures all-natural garden fertilizer by feeding organic waste to worms and bottling the resulting worm poop compost tea as ready-to use plant food. The plant food can be sprayed directly onto houseplants, gardens and lawns. It can even be distributed through irrigation facilities for mass agricultural use.
“TerraCycle’s products are environmentally beneficial, from production to application.”
TerraCycle collects the used soda bottles it uses for packaging by organizing environmental fundraisers at elementary schools. The schools conduct a 3-week event where thy collect 20 oz. used plastic bottles.
This once little company has gotten a lot of media coverage recently, proving that a little GREEN can go a long way. To buy TerraCycle: Store Locator, Purchase Online
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1 carrie // Jul 18, 2007 at 4:20 pm
I’m REALLY glad to hear that you are not drinking the tea. I was a little bit worried that you had gone off the deep end.
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