November 21, 2024

VIDEO: Biochar Workshop Part 2, Why to Make Biochar


Visit our website at http://www.livingwebfarms.org for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically.
Watch the whole day of the recent 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.
To read the article in Cape Cod News and a great turnip recipe, click here.
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Special thanks to Steve Heaslip and Cape Cod News for use of the image of turnips and Bob Wells at the Eastham Turnip Festival.

29 thoughts on “VIDEO: Biochar Workshop Part 2, Why to Make Biochar

  1. They found algae in the soil. I think they were using the river seaweed aka algae to charge the char with. It would make sense as the black soil is around the river and the place where the most nutrients are found is in the algae. What better than algae. Must be an integral part of the system. I live on the ocean so I have been studying seaweed in the garden. I have tons of bull kelp I can get truckloads at a time. Putting it thru the wood chipper is fun too.

  2. First of all that isn't the reason the roots are shallow per se. In bogs for example and wetlands the tree roots also are exposed and or shallow fire great lengths becaUe they don't like to get constantly wet. I'd imagine a rainforest would have the same issue and therefore trees would have shallow exposed roots for that same reason they do in all wetlands and bogs

  3. I have heard recently that new evidence is being found of human habitation in the American continents as far back as 30-45 thousand years ago. Potentially people have been improving the soil far longer than we have thus far given them credit for.

  4. They go on and on about native Americans like they are the only ones. This has been a world wide practice since time immemorial. For instance why farms can be found near volcanoes in Europe, Asia Africa, the Americas, basically everywhere.

  5. Sooooo, will it be good to soak the chips in a liquid fertilizer to load it, if we don't have compost, if we did that, how long would you soak it, and should you then let it dry out to use over time as you are potting plants

  6. Does anyone know where I can find out more information about his boat idea at the end? If he has done it or goes further into detail about it in another video?
    This idea would be absolutely in the state of Florida where those algae blooms can be major problems!

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