Biochar is an amazing substance that provides massive amounts of pore space for microbes to live and thrive. Learn how to load the biochar with healthy microbes in simple inoculation processes to meet your needs on the farm or in the garden. Biochar holds a variety of nutrients and retains water, enhancing long term fertility and soil life. Learn how biochar can be made and inoculated at home to pre-load it with ‘the right biology’ before soil application. We’ll explore a variety of easy techniques for effective biochar inoculation, including composting, vermicomposting, compost tea and more.
VIDEO: Biochar Inoculation with Dan Hettinger
Biochar is an amazing substance that provides massive amounts of pore space for microbes to live and thrive. Learn how to load the biochar with healthy microbes in simple inoculation processes to meet your needs on the farm or in the garden. Biochar holds a variety of nutrients and retains water, enhancing long term fertility and soil life. Learn how biochar can be made and inoculated at home to pre-load it with ‘the right biology’ before soil application. We’ll explore a variety of easy techniques for effective biochar inoculation, including composting, vermicomposting, compost tea and more.
Can I make a compost tea from chicken manure and then pour it on the biochar? Once I get charged biochar how long can it sit before it has to be used?
Oh man…Nice video, but we are hurting the worms if we use the shovel in that way he is using, worms create a very intricate web of tunnels, so we are screwing that tunnels too
So interested, so many questions. No way of getting to the US for this lecture.
The bag is for paint and still brilliant way to stup the tea.
The worms stay at the bottom because of the stink, they are drawn to things that smell light rot.
Imagine what this guy could do with Haiti?
Amazing!
how do you grind biochar. and how do you charge large quantities of biochar.
Wowo! I Gotta say how Privileged I feel for knowing this Knowledgeable channel! Yall are awesome! Thank you Dan, Your the Man!!
Is Biochar the same as wood charcoal? If so, can you use it to filter water like commercial charcoal filters?
Thank you for sharing! This video answered so many of my questions.
Hey Dan, sorry for the stupid question, but I've watched the video several times and couldn't get an answer to this question: how long do you leave the biochar soaking in the compost tea?
David the good did an experiment adding just biochar to bad dead soil and got good result with his first crop … got great taste and fast… he grew turnips and radish… radish had best flavor in biochar out of all the amendments he tried… of course it needs to be replicated… and tried with a multitude of crops
Good stuff. Thank you
I love this, thanks for this information
I add different microbiology in small amounts to my worm bin. The biology is increased x1000 after as month or so. .
And I would be so excited to have some of the microbiology offered to those students. Cycle that through several worm bins and multiply x1,000,000,000,000… No brainer.
can you adust your PH in your tea on the acidic side to compensate for the alkaline in the char if the application is for something in the neutral PH
FYI:
Applying 'raw' (meaning non charged charcoal) to the soil surface can help reduce WEEDS.
I have a question. If you’re mass producing biochar how would you go about inoculation? Can you just mix with strong manure and liquid from runoff? Making a compost tea for 20 yards of biochar seems like a lot
biochar is basically if charged is a time released fertilizer…balance acidity to alkaline and so mixing a tea from successful crop soils are the best enrichment …we quench our biochar with urine and water mixed…50/50 for the minerals then charging with compost teas and mixing with compost from successful soils and organics and green from your current lands all compost is 1/3 organic 1/3 brown and 1/3 green charging biochar and mixing into cooked composts and then add to planting beds …this rich mixture will double the sizes of your fruit and crops….
Thank you. Was trying to understand why you need to have the bubbling going on and this made is clear.
Rice Hulls biochar is great. and PH is perfect 7.0 to 7.3.
Can you add dry Biochar or Charcoal to a compost pile? if you can how much Char to a cubic yard of compost?
thats great,…thanks for sharing all this knowledge, I appreciate
I've read different in a scientific paper about leachate. Compost leachate is not very high in the NPK type of nutrients, it's basically humic acid and another type of acid I'm failing to remember. Still good stuff for plants but not high in nutrients and I haven't wanted to use my own 50 gallon drum worth of the stuff diluted with sea water to charge my bio char, I leave that to the giant composting bin next to it. I like to use the leachate diluted with well water to soak mulch layers. Plz share your own info.
Genesis Biochar organic soil conditioner could be part of the solution. It is mostly carbon and can last for a thousand years.
Gold. Pure Gold.
Paint filter bags. Can be found cheap at any store that sells paint
Do you guys still conduct courses?