Making Your Own Fertility: Compost Tea, Biochar, Manure Use
Making Your Own Fertility: Compost Tea, Biochar, Manure Use  
Podcast: Farm Fresh Homestead | Homesteading, Organic Gardening & Living Off the Land
Published On: Thu Jan 15 2026
Description: “Making Your Own Fertility: Compost Tea, Biochar, Manure Use” is a hardline homesteading guide focused on building soil fertility safely and effectively. It teaches the reader to harness living systems—microbes, carbon structures, and nutrient-rich manure—while managing risk, timing, and handling. Through clear, step-by-step guidance, it emphasizes the pressures of real-world soil management, the consequences of shortcuts, and the discipline required to create productive, resilient land. Every chapter balances practical instruction with gritty realism, showing how control of heat, time, and biological processes determines success or failure.