November 21, 2024

VIDEO: Biochar Workshop Part 3, The Carbon Cycle


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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.

30 thoughts on “VIDEO: Biochar Workshop Part 3, The Carbon Cycle

  1. I love organic fertilizer on my garden as Biochar and reducing CO2 but I'm concerned about the Farm Bill cost and larger Federal, State welfare subsidy monies to farmers that are charging families at the dinner table for another product for farm use.

  2. you could actually move the wood chips by train quite efficiently. and biochar could be produced by a wood gasification plant making less waste than just burning it in a barrel.

    in the Northwest they already have chip operations that go to the top of the mountain and grind up all the waste.

    if these materials were put on train car. the same as coal. that would make the industry much more realistic.

  3. Was it that the first year of peas were stunted because they were absorbing nitrogen from the peas? I'd heard on another video that you must first "activate" biochar by mixing it with high nitrogen materials.

  4. South India traditional stove is an classic example of manufacturing bio char in every house hold. Clay stove inner layer surrounded with saw dust and then using dried sticks to make bio char and cook at the same time

  5. Random thought that struck me about using the heat from mobile units: boiling maple sap. I have a reasonably large forest where I need to do a lot of underbrush reduction. Here's what I'm thinking:

    1)Establish a number of small woodsheds around the property so that I can easily set wood to start drying as I'm doing forest work. Ideally, these would be located near clusters of tappable maple trees.
    2)Store wood over the course of the year (or two for extra drying time, if I used a two-bin system in each woodshed) as I'm doing forestry stuff. Ideally, not having to carry wood more than 100ish feet without getting to a woodshed.
    3) Set up maple tapping systems in such a way that the sap gets collected near the woodsheds.
    4) During the sugaring season, bring a mobile biochar unit from shed to shed, charring the stored wood and boiling the sap. Neither wood nor sap has to be loved until most of the weight is gone.

  6. I'm in a city, and since the pandemic, and the realization that cities are not self-sufficient environments, I've worked towards Urban and Container Farming.

    I've learned a lot from your videos. I hope I can somehow incorporate it in container "gardening".

    The problem with container set-ups is that the plants "consume" the soil, so you need to add nutrients often, to the point that it is no longer profitable or viable.

    I'm doing this for the depressed/poor communities we are currently working with. Being able to produce your own food means survival for many these days.

  7. Plants grow through a chemical electro magnetic
    Process that is mirrored by the process of photosynthesis. The quality level of carbon in soil is like a one lane road opening to a double lane one . The level of nutrients
    In vegetables today is about 60% of what it was when this data was first studied more than 80 years
    Ago. This is a great place for like minded people to
    Learn and share…boy I wish I had not spent so much time on chicks and
    ' relationships '…

  8. I will love to learn how to use d energy to produce electricity, I have tons of waste wood at my disposal all year round. Many sawmills just burn slabs away for nothing. The heat energy can be harvest for sure but how for electricity?

  9. He should have specified to the question the woman asked, that fungus/mushrooms breath oxygen and release co2.. I assume that co2 released is from consuming plants and woody material, which wouldn't happen if turned to biochar.
    (also researching on carbon credit, the thing he was saying about 1 pounds carbon being equal to 3 of co2.. Is actually equal to 3.67)

  10. .
    Stop scaring children then … putting carbon back into the atmosphere actually is doing the planet a favor … that's where you have it twisted … you've said it yourself .. We don't burn lands anymore.
    Carbon has been being locked away for eons… I've been arguing this for years before the planet was supposed end … remember scaring your children political gains !!!

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