Walk along with Ric Stern, Horticultural Systems Designer, as he describes the vision for a new polyculture orchard in sandy Florida conditions. Learn about biodiverse cultivars that will be utilized in a synergistic plan that will increase organic matter in the soil and provide food for years once it is established.
VIDEO: Polyculture Orchard System Part 3 Cultivars & Biochar
Walk along with Ric Stern, Horticultural Systems Designer, as he describes the vision for a new polyculture orchard in sandy Florida conditions. Learn about biodiverse cultivars that will be utilized in a synergistic plan that will increase organic matter in the soil and provide food for years once it is established.
Avoided watching before because I'm not in that growing zone, but enjoyed nonetheless. Speaker is good with narrative and conveying information. Looking forward to more episodes (I want to see those stumps turn into biochar 🙂 )
What is he saying around the 11 to 12 minute mark. Bio-noculum????? and what is that?
My uncle used to make giant charcoal batches in Cuba by stacking the logs in a match house style and covering it with sand. You can lose the entire batch if someone is not on fire watch 24-7 covering up any spots that air gets in to the mounds. He told me it would take days to get the charcoal made. Thay also preferred woods like guava and others that I don't remember at the moment. Any how thay did all this by hand and he tells me it is an art.
Julio is right. http://www.maritime.org/conf/conf-kaye-tar.htm
We used to distill tar and pine pitch in gigantic mounds like the ones he describes in the US. It was a big export in early american history because of the need for pine tar to seal and caulk ships.
Same thing with the watching, what happens is as the wood chars it looses structural integrity and mass and collapses the holes need to be quickly covered to prevent air from entering and burning the char.