Compost Toronto: Community Compost Tea Party: Rain or Shine
Join us for our hands-on event. We have been busy making compost in the community and we are ready for a Tea Party!
Learn how to make compost tea and extracts, learn about their role in restoring the natural ecosystem within healthy soil. Be introduced to the unseen Soil Food Web, essential for soil health, plant health, community health and climate mitigation.
Come see compost and soil under the microscope, see the difference between dirt and living soil, learn how to recognize the signs of healthy soil and the practices that support it.
Make some compost tea and take it home or make a donation and take away our prepared compost tea. (Bring your own container)
Learn how you can build the carbon sponge beneath your feet while growing better tasting, healthier food.
About the Host: Compost Toronto is a group of people who share a common vision and passion for healthy soil and compost. We started as a group of students of the Soil Food Web School led by Dr. Elaine Ingham who first identified and described the presence and importance of soil microorganisms in healthy soil. Dr. Ingham was among the first to describe how soils are being depleted by industrial agriculture and the harmful impact this has upon plants, people and the climate. As a group we celebrate the role of composting in restoring health to soils. This in turn benefits people, Individually and collectively. We practice building compost piles, then apply the microorganisms back into the environment with great success. Composting is an often-misunderstood process. Many see it as waste reduction only. and leave it to the local government to manage. At Compost Toronto we see compost as completing the cycle of nature, adding back the nutrients and organic matter that we remove through our food choices and farm practices. To accomplish this, we focus on nurturing the microbiology in the soil that consumes and cycles the nutrients in organic waste. We are, in effect, microbe farmers. Composting is our method and the microscope is our tool to ensure we are doing it right.
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