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We Must Heal The Soil. It’s That Simple.

Crooked Farmz is a Toronto-based microfarm located in in East York and at Downsview Park. We culture high-quality small-batch composts and brew fresh aerobic compost teas for use in agriculture, horticulture, and arboriculture. These living soil amendments help restore microbial health, nutrient cycling, and plant resilience—whether you’re growing vegetables, perennials, lawns, or managing larger landscapes.

Compost tea offers a probiotic approach to building microbial health in soil, reducing the need for synthetic pesticides and fertilizers while supporting regenerative, ecologically balanced growing practices.

Three Ways to Connect

CSA Subscriptions
4 or 6 freshly-brewed compost teas delivered monthly June–September (or May–October for extended season). Sizes from 2L to 5-gallon buckets.

Markets/Pop-Ups
Fresh compost tea available throughout the season at Evergreen Brick Works, Leslieville, Withrow Park, and Sorauren Farmers Markets, plus at pop-ups throughout Ontario.

Pro Desk
Custom-brewed teas for professional horticulturists, landscapers, arborists, and larger-scale growers across the GTA.

About Us

We’re entering our 8th season serving fresh compost teas to East York, the Greater Toronto Area, and the Greenbelt. Our farm is rooted in principles of biodiversity, green economy leadership, benefits maximization, and care for land and water.

We’re members of the Ecological Farmers’ Association of Ontario (EFAO), National Farmers Union–Ontario (NFU-O), Toronto Farmers’ Network (TFN), and the Compost Toronto working group—part of a growing movement committed to building resilient ecological farms and strong knowledge-sharing communities.

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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Crooked Farmz on Instagram

appropriate hydration is important in any practice of agriculture, but it's perhaps even more important with something like rooftop farming, given the very shallow soil depth available to grow crops..... how to ensure and maintain adequate moisture?

I fully recommend this article from the excellent Secret Life of Seeds Substack by Mike Brunt:

Many Hands Urban Farm Collective has got to get to work soon..... thanks Mike for lending your hand!!

Presenting to the Toronto Master Gardeners | @torontomastergardeners the other night at Toronto Botanical Garden | @tbg_canada on approaches to thinking about liquids in an ecological urban agriculture practice: compost tea, fermented plant juice, JADAM liquid fertilizer, and chlorinated municipal water.