Don’t Feed the Plant, Feed the Soil!

Crooked Farmz is a Toronto-based microfarm producing small-batch composts and aerobic compost teas for use in agriculture, horticulture, and arboriculture. We serve seasonal teas at local farmers’ markets and garden centres, offer a compost tea CSA subscription service with 60+ members, and brew custom teas for professional clients across the Greater Toronto Area and into the Greenbelt.

We are passionate about the role that agriculture, horticulture, and arboriculture might play in fostering biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and regenerative growing practices. As a composter and brewer of compost teas to nourish and inoculate soil microbiology, we feel that Crooked Farmz has a role to play in supporting these healthy ecological practices, too.

Compost tea offers one important probiotic approach to building microbial health in soil, assisting with nutrient cycling in plants, reducing the need for synthetic pesticides and fertilizers — plus so much more.

About Us

We’re entering our 7th season serving fresh compost teas to the East York area, across Greater Toronto, and into the Greenbelt region. Our farm is a member of the Ecological Farmers’ Association of Ontario (EFAO), National Farmers’ Union (NFU-O), Toronto Farmers’ Network (TFN), and the Compost Toronto working group. We’re proud to consider ourselves among like-minded others both locally and across the province who are committed to building resilient ecological farms and growing a strong knowledge-sharing community.

Our compost teas are available at the two largest native plant markets in Toronto: Evergreen Brick Works Garden Centre in the east end and Toronto Plant Market in the west end.

We’re also available at four of the farmers’ markets across the city known best for bringing together a blend of organic and regenerative growing practices with thoughtful local community building practices: Evergreen Brick Works, Leslieville, Withrow Park, and Sorauren.

“Will you make your connection?”

Don’t feed the plant, feed the soil! . . . We sell fresh Crooked Farmz compost teas to a wide spectrum of growers, including home gardeners, Greenbelt farmers, horticulture professionals, arborists, urban market garden farmers, nurseries, master gardeners, turfcare managers, cannabis growers, university campuses, and more. If you’re a grower who cares about soil microbial health, you can make your compost tea connection with us as well.

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