November 21, 2024

VIDEO: Biochar Workshop Part 1, How to Make Biochar


Watch the whole day of the Biochar Workshop led by Bob Wells, soil scientist Jon Nilsson and Patryk Battle. Learn how to make biochar and its many beneficial uses including greatly enhancing soil life and fertility. Discover innovative ways to maximize its uses for dynamically carbon negative farming and gardening. Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org

25 thoughts on “VIDEO: Biochar Workshop Part 1, How to Make Biochar

  1. At 18:37 you say there are still chemical processes going on in the finished biochar product. That doesn't make sense using your system. You said the biochar is pure using this system.

  2. Very interesting, and big thanks for all the information and demonstration, i am in the UK and have a nursery with a boundary of Poplar trees that i am going to replace as they are now past their best and to tall to be useful, this looks like a good use for them but a question is if i log them and store to dry out Then reduce in size to kindling would Poplar trees make a good useable BioChar for use around the Nursery

  3. The neat thing about this, you can put it in a food processor. Add dried corn or dried bones in the same way. This will bump up the Btu's But your plants will love the nutrients. I would suggest burning everything but if someone were to make a bricket, so be it. Corn cobs BioMass etc… Now all you need is a binder & what keeps a fire burning ? Fat, everybody says you can't cook on fatwood. They don't wait they think you have to cook right away. You have to wait until the coals are white…

  4. So they cut 20 years living trees to make charcoal and called it sequestration, what about keeping trees for 100 years ??? By the video background we can tell that the only crop that these self righteous pseudo-environmentalists grow is lawn.

  5. Wanted to mention the albino squirrel digging around @ the 36:00 mark of the video.

    Also my buddy made a wood fired jacuzzi at his place in the woods in PA. He lined it with 1” or 1 1/2 “ soft coiled copper (HVAC isle at *local hardware store if you’re wondering) and runs it through the jacuzzi’s pump and filter system. Combining the system demo’d here with something like that should inspire some ideas

    Wondering if you could run 2 separate inner chambers so that you can run different sized material and keep them separated. Where do you apply the holes for the top chamber? I’m assuming one would have to use the bottom chamber for the smaller sized material.

  6. If you implemented this with a "rocket stove" design with a thermal mass to capture heat from the exhaust you could do amazing things. As a rocket stove you would want to feed from the top. OH NOW at 37 minutesish….

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