The cheapest, most versatile input on the farm starts with water you were about

The cheapest, most versatile input on the farm starts with water you were about to throw away.

This is LABS, lactic acid bacteria serum, cultured from rice wash water and milk.

The rice rinse captures wild microbes from the air, the milk feeds them, and the curd separates out to leave a golden serum packed with Lactobacillus.

Diluted at roughly 1:1000, it goes to work: chelating locked-up minerals so plants can absorb them, out-competing pathogens in the root zone, knocking back powdery mildew as a foliar spray, and speeding organic matter breakdown in the compost pile and the coop.

Same jar handles soil, leaves, compost, and odor. Working with biology instead of against it is the whole philosophy here.

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