Soil Biology’s Best Shortcut: How Fish Brew Acts Like a Cheat Code for the Soil Food Web
Restoring the soil food web is not easy. It requires time, patience, and the right conditions. If you have worked with compacted or biologically poor soil, you know that even when you set up the right environment, you still have to wait for the microbes. It is an “if you build it, they will come” situation—and it is a slow process.
Unless, of course, you bring the biology.
That is where Fish Brew Bold FLO and Fish Brew Rise and Thrive come in. While no product can replace sound soil practices, these two offer a legitimate head start. If you are looking to get biology moving quickly, they are about as close to a cheat code as it gets.
Rebuilding the Soil Food Web
If you are reading this, there is a good chance you are already familiar with the soil food web. However, if you are not, it refers to a complex network of predator-prey interactions in the soil. Think of it like the terrestrial or aquatic food webs most people learned about in school—but in this case, it is underground and extremely diverse and abundant.
A healthy soil food web is teeming with life—bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, microarthropods, and more—all interacting in intricate ways to feed plants, cycle nutrients, and build structure. However, this system can break down for many reasons. Overuse of synthetic fertilizers, fungicides, and pesticides, as well as tillage and compaction, are just a few common culprits.
Why Fish Brew Functions Like a Cheat Code
Fish Brew Bold FLO (Filtered Living Organisms) is a biologically active fish manure concentrate rich in diverse fungi, bacteria, and diatoms. It gets to work quickly, helping bring balance and structure back to your soil.
Fish Brew Rise and Thrive is also a fish manure concentrate and shares much of the same microbial makeup as Bold FLO—but it includes a broader array of higher-level predator protists, such as amoebae and flagellates. By introducing this diverse suite of beneficial microbes, you are laying the groundwork for a more complex and resilient soil food web.
Used together in your soil, these products do not skip steps—they simply accelerate them.
What Makes It Work?
1. Living Inputs – These are not shelf-stable “boosters.” They contain live, active microorganisms, which gives them a distinct advantage in terms of biological impact.
2. Balanced Support – Bold FLO and Rise and Thrive offer a diversity of soil food web organisms that often take time to reestablish naturally and are not easily replicated in a laboratory.
3. Practical Application – They are easy to integrate: use them in irrigation systems, compost tea brewers, or as a compost drench. They support, rather than replace, broader regenerative practices.
4. Jumpstarts Succession – Biologically speaking, these products help your soil skip a few early steps in the natural succession toward maturity. You are not bypassing biology—you are working with it.
Not a Magic Fix—But a Smarter Start
Referring to these products as a “cheat code” does not mean you can skip the fundamentals. However, if you are working with biologically depleted soil—or you are in a situation where regenerative practices are not yet practical—Fish Brew Bold FLO and Rise and Thrive can make a meaningful difference, and do so quickly.
They are especially helpful during transition phases: new garden beds, recovering farmland, compacted urban soils, or any space where you need to reestablish microbial life below ground.
Final Thoughts
There are no true shortcuts in soil regeneration—but there are tools that make the path smoother, faster, and more effective. Fish Brew Bold FLO and Rise and Thrive will not do all the work for you, but they can dramatically improve your starting point.
Think of them as a cheat code—not to win the game instantly, but maybe skip a level or two.