A spot of tea for the Ridge
PHOTO BY CASSIE JACOBY
Hunter Lilly, Bok Academy sustainable agriculture programs instructor, teaches how to grow organic produce.
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Members of the Ridge Organic Cooperative learn how to brew organic tea to improve soil biology.
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Shep Smith, owner of Soilsmith Services, tells Ridge Organic Cooperative meeting members how compost tea improves soil biology.
PHOTO BY CASSIE JACOBY
Shep Smith, owner of Soilsmith Services, tells Ridge Organic Cooperative meeting members how compost tea improves soil biology.
PHOTO BY CASSIE JACOBY
Shep Smith, owner of Soilsmith Services, tells Ridge Organic Cooperative meeting members how compost tea improves soil biology.
PHOTO BY CASSIE JACOBY
Hunter Lilly, Bok Academy sustainable agriculture programs instructor, teaches how to grow organic produce.
PHOTO BY CASSIE JACOBY
Shep Smith, owner of Soilsmith Services, tells Ridge Organic Cooperative meeting members how compost tea improves soil biology.
PHOTO BY CASSIE JACOBY
Shep Smith, owner of Soilsmith Services, tells Ridge Organic Cooperative meeting members how compost tea improves soil biology.
The Lake Wales Ridge is sipping a special brew of tea. Compost tea, not the kind you drink, is transforming the ancient sand dunes formed more than a million years ago.
“Compost tea is a water extract of high quality thermal compost and vermicompost,” said Shepherd Smith, who produces the dark, almost black compost at his Oregon-based company, Soilsmith Services.
