Worm tea is made by steeping worm castings in water using aeration and a sugar source to feed microbes.
The result is a living, liquid fertilizer.
Nutrient Boost
Worm tea adds vital nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus & potassium, plus trace minerals like calcium. These nutrients are in a form plants can absorb immediately as liquid through their root system.
By using a food source to feed the bacteria naturally found in castings (such as black strap molasses), you can multiply the castings’ benefits when applied to your plants’ soil.
Its organic, balanced nature means that unlike store-bought fertilizer, it doesn’t leave a salt concentration that leads to root damage.
Microbial Power
It’s packed with beneficial microbes (bacteria, fungi, protozoa) your plants need to thrive. These microbes improve soil structure, help plants absorb nutrients.
The healthy microbes help flush out harmful bacteria, allowing plants to flourish with a boosted immune system.
It protects roots by helping kill diseases, acting like a natural antibiotic.
Disease Resistance
The beneficial microbes colonize plant roots (when added to soil) and leaves (if sprayed), outcompeting pathogens like powdery mildew or root rot fungi.
As a result, stronger plants are better able to withstand elements that plants treated with other fertilizers can’t, like frost and unseasonal temperature fluctuations.
Stimulates Plant Growth
Some microbes in worm tea augment plant hormones (like auxins and gibberellins), which can promote root and shoot development. A healthy and immune plant produces hormones that taste bad to pests and insects, providing further protection.
Studies have shown that seedlings watered with a diluted worm cast tea solution germinate faster and produce stronger plants, as their energy is focused on growth, not struggling against imbalanced soil pH.
The natural composition of worm tea is balanced in acid & alkali levels, so your garden will never be harmed like it can with chemical growth agents.
Worm castings and tea can naturally increase crop production by about 25%
Soil Health
Regular watering is necessary for your garden, but doesn’t add anything enriching to the soil, while worm tea actually improves soil composition over time. Its beneficial bacteria help break down organic matter faster, thus supporting a balanced soil food web.
Every time you give your plants worm tea, you’re adding microscopic helpers to their growth medium that make food easier out of what surrounds them.
Eco-Friendly & Sustainable
Earthworms exist to work through soil, breaking it down to its most basic molecular components, so what comes out of them is exactly what plants need. Worm tea enables those benefits to be spread everywhere you want healthy, robust plants!
Green waste can become part of your own food cycle, as leftovers are processed by red worms into castings, which can then be used in buckets to create your own worm tea.
