When life gives you lemons.... make lemonade!
I suppose you could say that this phrase could be used to describe a lot of what we do here at Elvis & Kresse. Life gave us fire-hoses and leather off-cuts, so we made luxury accessories. Life gave us a failed septic system, so we built the wetland system to transform that 'problem' into a biodiverse wetland.
We have incorporated this same thinking into almost everything we do which is why a big box of fish heads, bones, tails and flesh scraps caught our eye at our local farm shop.
So, what do you do with fish waste? It has a lot of nutrition, useful for our establishing vines, but not just strewn about... as much as that might please the birds, rats and foxes!
We added water and sugar and have been brewing up a liquor - called fish hydrolysate - which is nitrogen rich, and an incredible food for both plants and the world of microbes we are encouraging to thrive in our soil.
