WHY COMPOST TEA? with Matt Powers, The Permaculture Student

[@AllConsumingJAWS]

Dang it, Matt... Your laugh 😅 is so infectious, my friend...😂 Thank you, and keep up the great work. 🌬🍃🌾🖖

[@bigtupholsterygardeningbee4170]

Always good info and positive attitude thanks Matt

[@ThePermacultureStudent]

Thanks Edward!!!!! :)

[@K9BoardAndTrain]

So glad I found your channel. Love you Matt!

[@zyclonInfection]

Hey Matt, I'm familiar with your work with Dr. Elaine Ingam because I watched your webinar on KZbin. Thanks to these videos, I have a good understanding of the soil food web and I can't wait to take her course. I am a 24 year old, living in the tropics and about to startup with a 1/2 acre. Please give me some information about how to make fungal thermal compost with sawdust and cowmanure

[@ThePermacultureStudent]

Thermal compost yields bacterial dominance primarily, so that's difficult. I'd use KNF IMO preps to get higher fungal counts and leverage EM as well with static piles so the fungi can develop. You can also do an orchard composting method ala Michael Philip style: get your hot compost going and THEN add the a ton of woody material and then let it sit for a year, so you ramp it up heat-wise and then slam it into the woody carbon and let them gel for a year.

[@zyclonInfection]

@@ThePermacultureStudent Thanks for the info, I'm definitely going to look into this but I would like to do this as quick as I can to get cash flow. I'm in the caribbean and we can grow year round. I already have plants in the garden and more seedlings ready to transplant. I have everything invested in this 1/2 acre because I refuse to go Into debt. I have access to large amounts of teak sawdust which gets burnt and destroys the atmosphere along with cow manure (mostly dried) and coconut leaves mixed with grass clippings. I'd like to use these materials and make high quality fungal compost for my garden and sell the surplus, however I'm broke so I can't take Dr. Elaine's courses and I don't have a thermometer. PLEASE HELP ME

[@monkeymanwasd1239]

@@zyclonInfection the johnson su bioreactor might work well if you dont let it get too hot and ashy. once the bioreactor gets hot enough it will pasteurized itself to a degree making fungal inoculation fairly easy. a compost and fungi farming business might be a got bet for that size acreage, though i think in the tropics that might be all you need to be mostly self sufficient. o0o good luck and please give us some updates if you joined matt's course and the associated facebook group

[@brucehitchcock3869]

Why not Matt's course .Is the credentials not as good ?

[@Me-dy8oq]

Hi Matt I’ve been trying to grow my own vegetables this year which I did very well the only thing is I was misled with my compost tea I put it in a bucket in a plastic bag but no bubbles no aeration is it still good to put on my vegetables or should I dump it in my compost pile? I tore everything down to get it ready for spring and loaded my beds up with chicken compost

[@ThePermacultureStudent]

I'd dump it on the compost heap and try again BUT it depends on how long you let it sit and did you stir it hourly?

[@Me-dy8oq]

Matt Powers - The Permaculture Student No unfortunately it’s been sitting there all summer and I haven’t stirred it once I didn’t know too much about it so I made 20 gallon drum and I think I just ruined it didn’t I? 🤦🏽‍♀️Ok try try again .. I’ll watch some more of your videos before I attempt to make more. Thank you

[@ThePermacultureStudent]

@@Me-dy8oq I recommend trying again ;)

[@climateteacherjohnj7763]

I'm now sure to subscribe AND hit the bell button! I need these notifications.

[@monkeymanwasd1239]

does added finished compost tea or dried finished compost tea powder to the tea as you put in the water do anything? i could see that becoming an interesting way to develop a biology that is resistant to dryland conditions while having other beneficial effects i haven't thought of. what do yall think?

[@jamesspurgeon5803]

If it were dried the only organisms that would remain are endospore forming bacteria and some fungi spores. It would significantly limit the diversity of microbes in the tea.

[@blarknee7672]

Does compost tea aeration on a small scale require an electric pump? I know aerobic bacteria populations scale proportional to oxygen levels, but for ease of access, wouldn't a bottle with a tiny hole dripping into a bucket with a handful of compost be sufficient to prevent anaerobic conditions?

[@ZE308AC]

I would like to make compost tea but I don't want to use more electricity and have to pay more for electricity, ¿can I buy a solar pump?

[@ThePermacultureStudent]

For sure you can do that! You just have to match everything up in terms of energy usage/need and then have enough sun :)

[@ZE308AC]

@@ThePermacultureStudent thank you ♥, I really appreciate it 🙏.

[@patsfball3710]

Wait for my video to load. I did malassis in mine for the microbes to grow and went high. So dense and chocolatey

[@ThePermacultureStudent]

Molasses is a bacterial food - you can only use it very lightly in brews or you end up just feeding weed growth. Did you catch the video on that? It's the most popular video on my channel.

[@patsfball3710]

Put brown rice I think or white i.forgot. put in panty hose put in bamboo garden 1 month

[@cl5296]

Go and find keshe fondation agriculture solutions .... very awsome results

[@brucehitchcock3869]

Do fungals reproduce ,? In comp.tea?

[@patsfball3710]

Compost tea with a and b....omg