Planting Garlic | Germinating Seeds

I am always happy when I hear from growers and gardeners who are brewing and feeding their garden and indoor plant soil Authentic Haven Brand Natural Brew. Where I really find pleasure is sharing the true benefits that my 100% natural Soil nutrients bring to the garden.

Carolyn Binder, organic gardener and published garden writer is farming her urban organic garden and documenting it through her blog site at Cowlick Cottage Farms 

Carolyn's most recent share is the planting of her winter Christmas garlic. Chatting on twitter with Carolyn (@cowlickcottage) she mentioned that she was late in getting her garlic seeds planted. I suggested to her to brew a batch of Authentic Haven Brand Natural Brew and soak her garlic seed for 24 hours prior to planting.

  Carolyn's photo soaking 300 garlic seeds in Moo Poo Tea

Carolyn's garlic sprouting on day 4

Carolyn, states in her blog post:  I am most excited about my crop of Christmas garlic. It was planted at least a month late, but it is looking fantastic. This is third-generation garlic from our little Cowlick Cottage Farm , grown entirely organically. Prior to planting, I soaked it in Moo Poo Tea overnight, and that gave it the energy to burst with life once planted in our rich soil. For more about the benefits of feeding your garden organically, visit my friend and heritage rancher, Annie Haven.

If you want to get your garden started right this season hydrate your starts, sets, and seeds in Authentic Haven Brand Natural Brew   prior to planting like Carolyn has done.

Soaking information:

Size:                           Time:

Small seeds                1 to 4 hours

Medium seeds           4  to 6 hours

Large seeds               6  to 8 hours

All bulb type seed and bulbs can soak for 24 hours prior to planting.

Use the manure tea that you soaked your seeds in to moisten the soil prior to planting. Continue to brew and feed Authentic Haven Brand Natural Brew throughout the growing season for optimal plant growth, it will increase your bloom and vegetable yield naturally.

Authentic Haven Brand Natural Brew is hosting a "Pay it Forward" special to help encourage others to grow naturally!

When you place your order of Authentic Haven Brand Natural Brew you will automatically receive one free manure tea bag with your purchase. All we ask is that you share your free manure tea bag with a family member, friend or neighbor of your choice. Place your order today at http://www.manuretea.com  

How to Brew and Feed Moo Poo Tea

Southern Post Journal – A Sustainable Garden Blog in Houston Texas by Jacqueline D’Elia. Today Jacqueline brings you the How to's on brewing Authentic Haven Brand Natural Brew premium soil conditioner teas. Enjoy an increase in your bloom and vegetable yield with regular feedings of Moo Poo Tea. Give your garden and indoor plants the natural root boost they need to thrive! Mention SPJ at check out and receive a *free manure tea bag with each order placed offer ends November 15, 2011 so order yours today Authentic Haven Brand Natural Brew  

Washington Gardener Magazine | A Giveaway Brewing

Contest that will have you growing naturally. Washington Gardener Magazine has a giveaway growing on that's easy for you to enter. What's up for grabs a Stylishly Wrapped Sampler 3 Gift Pack of Authentic Haven Brand Natural Brew premium soil conditioner teas. Your garden and indoor house plants will thrive when you brew and feed them 100% natural Soil nutrients (aka) Moo Poo Tea. All you need to do is click the link below and you'll read more about Authentic Haven Brand Natural Brew and learn how easy it is for you to enter, join the growing fun, your plants will love you for it! just Click here.... Washington Gardener Magazine - Contest How To's 

Fall Harvest Fruits & Exotics

by Carolyn Binder:  This weekend was a big one for farmers and gardeners in north Florida and South Georgia.  The New Leaf Market Farm Tour attracts an ever-growing crowd to its 32 participating farms, backyard gardens and dairies.  We often spend the entire weekend touring farms right near our home in Monticello. But this year, we were a little behind in our own planting and autumn chores. So we decided to make a morning visit to Just Fruits and Exotics, a teaching orchard and nursery in Crawfordville, Florida.  If you’re interested in learning how to grow fruit trees, it’s the place to go. They sell their stock via mail order from their website, www.justfruitsandexotics.com. The site is jam-packed with some of the best growing information I’ve found for almost every type of edible, so drop in and check it out. The nursery carries an amazing array of fruit, along with herbs and vegetables, and a selection of ornamentals for your garden. read more... Autumn Fall Fruits and Exotics

Manure Tea-Plant Nutrition

Manure/Manure Tea: Cow or Horse manure has for centuries been an excellent source of natural plant nutrition. Cow and Horse manure added to your garden soil works to break down the soil. What does this? "Live Microorganisms" like little pack-men they work away at the soil breaking it down so that your plants root system can more readily absorb needed nutrients from within the soil.

When you add Cow or Horse manure to the soil you need to allow time for this process to work.


However; when you brew and use Cow or Horse manure as a "tea" it goes to work immediately, like liquid vitamins.

Authentic Haven Brand premium soil conditioner manure teas are "pure manure" harvested by hand and Eco hand packaged in tea bag form, from Haven raised livestock only. The Haven family raise their livestock free of antibiotics, growth hormones and pesticides and have since 1924. Authentic Haven Brand Eco friendly packaging makes it easy for you to brew and easy for you to use, your plants will love you for it.

Authentic Haven Brand has taken the hassle out of brewing manure as a tea. Gone are the days of searching for a manure source or taking time out of your gardening day to go get it. You can now grow Green by simply going to http://www.AuthenticHavenBrand.com and placing your order through our secure web site.

We are here for the Green minded garden grower, if you have any questions please feel free to e-mail annie@ahavenbrand.com we are happy to answer any questions you may have.

Authentic Haven Brand is a family owned business and we are here for our customers guaranteed.

Manure Tea not Eral Gray

What’s a manure teabag?
February 28th, 2010, 6:00 am · Post a Comment · posted by Jan Norman, small-business columnist

Authentic Haven Brand in San Juan Capistrano is selling manure teabags. But don’t store them next to the Lipton box.

Yeah, you can steep them in a large water jar, but don’t leave the resulting brew on the porch with the lunch sandwiches and cookies, says owner Annie Haven.
Manure tea tastes like you-know-what to humans, but it’s nectar to your plants and roses, she says.

The manure itself may be too strong but the liquid derived from steeping “is like all natural, liquid vitamins.”

She deliberately makes Haven teabags 3-by-5 inches, larger than varieties for human tea, but a competitor, no longer in business, made spoon-sized bags that could be easily mistaken for the human variety, Haven says.

Haven manure teabags are sold online here, 3 for $12.95, 9 for $21.95. They’re also carried at Regalo, San Juan Capistrano; Sherman Library and Gardens, Corona Del Mar; Delaney’s Artisan market, Temecula; La Chatue, Murrieta; and DuPonts Winterthru Library and Gardens in Delaware.

There are other brands of manure tea, Haven says. Some sell worm casting tea, chicken manure tea. Some sell it in large bags, but pre-brewed tea doesn’t last because it loses nutrients, she insists.


“My grandmother brewed manure tea,” says Haven, who has lived all her life on Southern California cattle ranches and tomato farms. “I’m growing my green business in this brown economy.” says Annie Haven

Authentic Haven Brand teas come from cattle that are fed grass and no chemicals and no nutrients are added to the manure. “People ask what the urine content is, but these aren’t dairy cows, so this doesn’t have urine in it,” Haven says.

The Havens have been ranchers in the United States since 1873 and in what is now Orange County/North San Diego County as far back as 1910, Annie Haven says. At one point Haven Seed Company was a large producer of tomato seeds.

Most of her family are still in ranching and related industries farther north. Annie Haven splits her time between San Juan Capistrano and Murietta ranches.

She still raises cattle, selling off enough to make a living and breeding replacements. But prolonged periods of below-average rain had left her with too few head to live on, so she started commercializing what she calls the natural soil conditioner that’s a part of cattle ranching.

“American farmers and ranchers as far back as I can remember have never had just one business,” Haven says. “You cutting dead trees and low limbs and selling it for firewood, recycle scrap to sell.

The teabags are a value-added by-product of my livestock business.”

Haven has 3,000 followers on Twitter (@greensoil) and is hoping to win Intuit’s Love a Local Business contest.

http://www.AuthenticHavenBrand.com

Manure Tea a Green Business

Manure tea bags get constant comment
Ron Dicker Mar 25th 2010 at 12:00PM

Walletpopper

Annie Haven's manure tea bags might appear steeped in novelty, but when it comes to brewing up business, the woman knows her you-know-what."I didn't just look at my cows and say I'm going to sell manure," Haven, a rancher in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., told WalletPop.

Just for clarification: You don't drink manure tea. You pour it in your soil so plants and flowers flourish.

She makes the teabags bigger so you won't confuse them with the potable kind. But you brew it in a jar like sun tea. Haven Authentic Brand tea bags have become a hit among ecology-minded home gardeners, with more than 3,000 disciples on Twitter, according to the Orange County Register. They're also generating constant comment for the packaging, even if Haven says that isn't what's driving consumers and retailers."I'm not really sure they're attracted to the gimmick of it," she said. "It's the ease of it.

"No stench. No hauling of the unedited stuff required. And plants receive a direct blast of nutrients at the roots, according to Haven. Pre-brewed won't work, she explained, because the vitamins dissolve too quickly. Haven said the goods emerge from grass-eating cattle that are drug- and hormone-free. She won't reveal her process for distilling the teabag-ready stuff, but assures that it's by "environmental design.

"The price ($12.95 for three teabags of cow or horse "soil conditioner") is positively Lipton-like when you realize that you can make five gallons per bag. That's a lot of watering, given that most of her customers tend to foliage in a small space, she told WalletPop. Since she began selling the teabags, she estimated that her income has increased by a third. Development of her once-rural surroundings shrank her livestock enterprise. Fewer farmers and growers required her services, so she developed a product that she could sell to the very people who now occupy the built-up spaces.

Therein lies Haven's lesson for small-business owners: Meet a need with the resources you have and the conditions you live in."I've grown the business as the business has demanded growth," she said. "Sales built the product, the product built the website.

"Haven's grandmother brewed manure tea, and a Canadian company tried packaging a brand of manure tea years ago but made the teabags so close to human-portion size that perhaps they over-exploited the gimmick of it, she explained. So far, the rancher has avoided critical missteps. Said Haven: "I know this baby from the ground up."

Soil, Roots, Seedlings & Plants

Authentic Haven Brand could not be more pleased with what's Growing on around the ranch.

Growing a Green business in a Brown economy is what woman rancher Annie Haven has been doing. Haven, introduced her 100% natural premium soil conditioner teas to the world of Container, Patio, Balcony and Home gardeners few years back and she has never looked back.

As our economy began to unravel on Main Street USA Haven had already been feeling the pains of short purse strings. Several years of below normal rain fall forced Haven to scale back her livestock herd in order to not over graze the land. Raising less livestock means less annual income. However; what the economic bad times have given her is a Niche Market of garden growers. And that leads us back to Haven's Eco friendly and environmentally Devin premium soil conditioner tea business.

Haven, who is so proud to be following in her father's ranching/farming footsteps has taken the by-product of Haven raised livestock supplied to large natural grower's since 1924 and repackaged it for the Container, Patio, Balcony and Home gardener. Authentic Haven Brand, premium soil conditioner teas are hand packaged in easy to Brew, Easy to Use Eco-friendly tea bags.

You "Brew it Fresh" Haven says, when you need to feed your plants. Haven is pleased to see her premium soil conditioner tea business being recognised in the Media. On February 28, 2010 the Orange County Register Business News featured Haven's premium soil conditioner tea business http://bit.ly/bDjI6R article by Jan Norman. Authentic Haven Brand was picked up on March 1, 2010 by National Press Radio http://bit.ly/ciATvj Haven has been interviewed for an up coming article in Inc. Magazine. Haven will also see her premium soil conditioner teas freatured some time later this Spring on the TV show Garden Wise with Arlena a nationally sidicated garden show out of WI follow Arlena (www.twitter.com/GardenBlessings).

The recognition most pleasing to Haven is coming from fellow gardeners across the country, Canada, Spain and Singapore that are tweeting pictures of their Green garden growing success with Haven who goes by @GreenSoil on twitter. Follow her www.twitter.com/GreenSoil

Wonderful gardeners are tweeting pictures to Haven daily. Some are promoting her and her line of garden premium soil conditioner teas on their blog pages and to Show's like the Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs" and Haven, who remains humbled by all the attention is enjoying it. It's heart felt to see people discover just how powerful Mother Nature can be in such a simple setting as an indoor or outdoor garden she says.

Times are tough, there is no doubt about it Haven says and it may be some time before the economy truly turns around. For now Haven is set on helping gardeners grow Green gardens naturally with her Authentic Haven Brand premium soil conditioner teas to naturally increase bloom and vegetable yield like so many of her clients are now doing.

here is a link to one of Haven's twitter followers @gypsyfarmer who tweets about his grandmother's cactus planted in a planter he made 35 years ago http://twitpic.com/17zwil blooming like crazy with feedings of Authentic Haven Brand premium soil conditioner teas.

Order yours today at http://www.AuthenticHavenBrand.com

Note if you are a Social Media fan using twitter here are a few gardeners you must follow. @getinthegarden @BG_gardens @bwisegardens @TwoWomenANDaHoe @gardenofwords @gypsyfarmer @TeeRiddle !GardenWiseGuy @betweenthelimes @ahAModernLiving @SweetRebecca come join Haven and here gardening gal and guy pals Tweet-Tweet

SALE Winter Garden Growers

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Feed Authentic Haven Brand premium soil conditioner teas to naturally condition the soil so your plants roots can absorb needed nutrients from the soil they are growing in.

We look forward to helping you grow naturally healthy Green gardens with the use and regular feeding of Authentic Haven Brand premium soil conditioner teas.

Authentic Haven Brand premium soil conditioner tea bags steep 5 gallons of Brewed Fresh tea. It's ready when you are ready to feed it. No more hauling containers to your local garden center or worry of running out or it going bad before you feed it.

We have structured our prices so you are receiving a Sale price on every purchase. That starts at 15 gallons of premium soil conditioner tea for $12.95 (less then a $1.00 a gallon) a big saving of money and time. Authentic Haven Brand, premium soil conditioner teas you "Brew it Fresh" when you need to feed it! No waste!

Easy to Brew, Easy to Use and Easy to Order, so order your today www.AuthenticHavenBrand.com

The holidays are just around the corner, keep your Holiday flowers looking they're best feed them Authentic Haven Brand too.

Don't forget that special someone on your Gift list Authentic Haven Brand premium soil conditioner teas make a wonderful gift that gives back each time it's fed.

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Composting Tip:

Brew Authentic Haven Brand, premium soil conditioner tea and add it to your organic compost to naturally speed up the break down of your organic matter.

If you are using worms don't worry, they love Authentic Haven Brand premium soil conditioner teas

Pure Manure Tea-Proof is in the Bloom

(photo by Becky Reilly)

If there is an ounce of doubt, in your mind that Authentic Haven Brand Natural Brew (pure manure) premium soil conditioner, really works?

I hope this picture and others posted on my blog will help answer that question for you!

We designed and Eco package our product line for you. The Container, Patio and Small Home Gardener!

This is your "Brew it Fresh" premium soil conditioner that will have your plants root system, Tippy-Tapping in the soil!

You will be please with the increase in bloom and vegetable yield, your receive. Live Green by Growing Green, join us..

Please visit our web site and order yours today!

Easy to Brew, Easy to Use, Easy to Order, so order yours today. http://www.authentichavenbrand.com/

If you have any gardening related questions please feel free to e-mail us at annie@ahavenbrand.com

Our "Sampler Gift Pack" is a stylish "green giving" gift for that special gardener on your list.