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ally pulling them off the compost. In the old method, those microbes would mostly stay
attached to the compost with the sticky substances they manufacture, and wouldn't have
enough air to multiply. The new method gives them the right amount of air, plus we add
the foods they need to multiply.
Examples of good microbe foods include molasses, kelp, fish, humic acids and rock
dust. Obviously, these products should not have preservatives in them, because preservat-
ives are designed to kill microbes. Molasses, other sugars, fruit juice and kelp promote
more bacteria growth. Fish, seed meals, humic acids, yucca and rock dust promote more
fungal growth. Other than yucca, which is added at the end, these are all added at the be-
ginning of the brewing process. Mycorrhizal fungi can be added at the end of the brewing
process if you're doing a soil application.
Here's a recipe I have adapted and evolved for a five-gallon homemade brewer. This
takes one to five days to make. I don't really know when it's done if I'm not testing it, but
two to three days is a good time frame to start. The mix is: 4-8 cups compost, 6 teaspoons
unsulfured blackstrap molasses, 6 teaspoons liquid kelp, and 3 teaspoons liquid fish. If
you use a purchased brewer, they often use less compost. You may be able to buy excel-
lent compost from the brewer manufacturer and a mixture of the microbe foods too.
