The Secret Of Eldorado - TERRA PRETA
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- Опубликовано: 19 фев 2011
- In this documentary a legendary civilization thought to be too good to be true on the basis of the stories told by the Spanish explorer Francisco de Orellana, is found to be a real part of history. We can separate fact from fiction here, in that the golden riverbanks the Spaniard told of, were not golden as with precious metal strewn along them, but with something far more precious; CROPS !!
Delve into one of the most important facets of the past U will probably ever discover in this SIX PART extravaganza. It is a wonder headlines like CULTIVATION SHOCK: STARVATION IS OVER FOREVER, or GOLD ? BRING ME CHARCOAL AND I WILL BRING U ALL U CAN EAT !! did not appear immediately, and the governments of every nation brought together in celebration.
Two words .. .. TERRA PRETA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One mission . . . CULTIVATE IT & REAP A PARADISE!!! TURN DESERT INTO A GARDEN!!
ADDITIONAL: Some people have seen an opportunity for commercialization of this wonder of God's grace, and actually grow high energy crops especially for charcolization. While this is viable & maybe with reasonably amiable intentions, it misses the ultimate goal that the people of El Dorado/ the Amazon basin rainforest pre-Columbus found themselves ahead of practically the rest of the world by: harmony and balance with their environment. They did not 'waste' their organic matter, their left-overs of daily life, they kept it all in the cycle and with a twist of ingenuity found a way for their 'waste' to actually become their most valuable means of survival. If we do not harness this same opportunity today, God's wrath shall find us in the form of our very own failure at life and we will probably all be dead within a couple of hundred years, with only a few 'survivor' mutant 'elites', who suffer from nano-bot viruses that cause them to continually punch themselves where it hurts the most, and eventually they will not be able to reproduce with their relatives anymore, and mankind will fizzle out none too soon. We should use REED BEDS to process our WASTE and then harvest the reed beds - in their entirety - for production of TERRA PRETA. This way within a couple of hundred years, ALL THE SOIL could be TERRA PRETA and there would be no malnutrition, while we could rest under the shade of trees that grow taller, and pick their fruits that ripen fuller than ever before. Some may call this idealism, and I call their lack of imagination, idiotism. Here's to the magic of life, and the end of strife :)
BONUS FEATURE!!!!!
The shear scale of how much Terra Pretta soil is spread out over the world is incredible. One patch alone in the Amazon is twice the size of UK, 2m deep.. and there are many patches. Think of how much effort that would take and how big an area of farmland. Basically we are looking at a huge, lost ancient civillisation that as been completely removed from our history books.
Rather suspiciously I think a cover up was at play. That is why they disbanded the first explorer and threw him out of Court. I suspect they sent War Ships and disease from them also wiped the people out. I suspect the Black soil is also Cremated Human ashes and the Pottery Shards are Funeral Urns and the soil is the missing Indian people. Like what Hitlar did with the Dew's. The soil is alive the scientist said it almost had an oily consistency , if it's passed through the gut of insects and worms and picks up the gut flora and mulched down by fungi and leaf matter over and over. Horrible thought but I think the soil is them. And it will never be exactly replicated if that's the case. Another thing I heard is the Indian Chief wants all rights for the marketing brand label of Bio Char. I heard the other scientist that flew into the village speak his concerns about it on another talk show. That's the one with the big dirt plaza. That will be a concern with the conservation society. I suspect the money will destroy their way of life. But then again the King may want that who knows. He might want to evolve.He's got his own mind.
it's mind blowing!!! and magical!!! :D I'm thinking they never were in the books to begin with, the same old post social collapse time frame ;)
Lana Gaskell that’s not what the soil is man did you listen to the video
Oranello’s tales must have sounded outrageous to people
@@celticgypsy6067 - conspiratards are so cringe.
Think of how many generations and how many thousands of years it took to cultivate and grow such soils especially when intimately connected with vast civilizations! Such an INCREDIBLE documentary especially when you are independently researching and come to the same conclusions, down to the very method by reasonable deduction! All of these civilizations are very much connected the longer you study content. Look at the global map of mollisols and then study each region. Literally all were mound builders! Farming is much more ancient than 10k yrs and the culture and technology was dispersed around the globe possibly from the America's! Regardless of origin, the culture is distinct and the practices are if not extremely similar, in some instances identical. It's such a beautiful and amazing lost story but isn't any different than today when you really think about it.
Firstly, I think this is a very interesting documentary. I read most of the comentaries about it and I respect everybody 's opinion. I'm originaly from Beni, Bolivia..... exactly where part of the documentary took place. I got a cattle farm on those savanas, so I kind of know that area for more than 20 year by now, so maybe my opinion would be helpful to all the viewers to have a better understading of the region and also for anybody insterested on futures investigations.
I can't afirm that El Dorado is located over there, but one thing I can afirm...... that an old agriculture civilization use to live on it, is ben call "Civilización Hydráulica de Moxos" (Moxos Hydraulic Civilization). Even that cientifics like Erickson and others start to study them, we barely know. There is a lot of dirt estuctures remaid that tell us that they use to do agriculture..... ecactly how? where and when did they become an agriculture society? how did they colapse? .....I'm not going to go over that..... everybody saw the video. But one thing is right..... the Terra Preta that has been found around the Amazon forest is truly related to their agriculture sistem.
The question now..... that Terra Preta is man made or is just a natural Process? and the second question that everybody was talking about.... where the europian diseases the reason for the collapse?. Here is where I want to share with everyboby a little bit my experience.
The numerous forest island surrounded by huges savanas where Erickson suggests that El Dorado must be located (if it does exist) is know as "Complejo Hydráulico de Baures" (Baures= nearest town), on of the few region where the Moxos Civilization took place, but the most unknow so far, even that some cientifics like Erickson have made sutudies on the surroundings areas, I can assure that propably a hand full of modern humans or maybe nobody have entered to the heart of the Baures Hydraulic Complex, at leat not to do an especific arqueologist study, and the main reason is becouse during six months all the savanas are flooded, and during the dry season the soil remain soft and swampy...... so there is no roads, no town, no farms, no cattle..... we don't even try to ride the cattle to the market places through that region even that is the closer straight way to Baures town on the dry season.
The big question is......looking at the current behavior of the region........ How was posible that the great Moxos civilization develop a sustainable technified agriculture in that place?. Some theories suggest that they use to live and at the same time do agriculture on the many forest islads located severals meters above the savana level (protected from the annual flood water), but on my opinion it doesn't make sence....... 1) becouse there is not enough forest island or let say... dry places..... to produce sufficient food capable to sustain the amount of people required to buit all the canals, dykes and all the dirt work currently visible....... 2) Becouse the natural forest island soil simply is not fertile enough to belive on thousands years of sustainable agriculture........
But there is one thing I can tell for sure.......the abundant dark soil or Terra Preta that covers most of the savana in that region it does. My theory suggest that whenever the Moxos civilization estabilish in that area the enviroment was totaly different..... the savannas were plenty dry to do a sustainabe agriculture and also to live and estabilish permanent settlements, but why so far nobody have proof of that? ..... becouse base on what we know about the Moxos civilization... everybody is looking for physicals proof on the wrong places.... all the escavation have been made on high places protected from the flood water like forest islands, but no studies or escavation have been made on the staight savanas. Plowing on my farm I found on those savannas not one, but several places with aparently funeral pottery on what it looks permanent settlements on the current flooded savannas, I did found also black soil mounds with bones, shells and peaces of pottery on the inside covered with vegetation spread all over the savannas. Recent studies made by Umberto Lombardo en bolivia suggest that the enviroment in Beni have been change and the posibility of dry savannas thousands years ago is very probable..... fact that also will support this new crazy theory with futures investigations.
Now.... more questions start to appear...... Why did the enviroment change so drastically? ... that enviroment change was the reason for the Moxos civilization colapse? the civilization that Francisco de Orellna describe was the same or was related to them? where diseases brought by the conquistators responsable for them colapse?
In my opinion, the Moxos Civilization who lives on the savanas of BauresHydraulic Complex colapse by wheater factors....... probably by an intensive rain period, but was not the rain itself, my theory suggest that intensive rain exceed the water levels of several lakes located south west of the Baures region braking up them retaining walls and draining them water dragging all kind of material on its way leaving sediments spread all over the place including natural rivers, transforming that dry savanna on the big swamp that remain by now becouse all the natural water causeway were totaly modified and filled up with sedimments. In that case the collapse would be imminent, not becuse people drowned, but becouse they were not capable to produce food. If that such a disaster truly happened the population may droop drasticly in less than one year, forcing the remain ones to abandoned the Baures Hydraulic Complex, or at least to migrate to the surroundings dried areas where they remain in smaller tribes fighting to each other to defend the sparses food sources, forcing them to become hunters and collectors doing a very little survival agriculture like what Jesuits found ones they arive to this region. phenomenon that I call "Social Involution".
It sound like a movie right? ...... but I base my Hypothesis on a very astonishing discovery that I made on the middle of the flat swamp savannas..... Two years ago realice that a cattle farm neighbour facilities next to the San Martin river on savannas of the Baures Hydraulic Complex were settled on what aparently seem to be a natural forest Island, but once they remove dirt with a tractor on the edge side of the island, a pile of round rock material ( from 5 to 20 centimeters gravel) shows up...... so aparently that was not a natural island but the result of a tremendus water force dragging. Surprisingly, the closer highest mountaun is at least 15 kilometers away. Another impresive discovery that I made on the East side of the same river was a natural water drainage on the savanna from at least 2.5 kilometers wide runnung on parallel to the Sant Martin river but 10 kilometers away, while I was taking sample of the soil looking for the best place for cattle water pound, I found that the all width area of that natural water drainage was covered with 1/2 centimeter diameter gravel mixed with sand and gray clay.
Personaly I don't know any place on Beni 's savanas with those kind of caracteristics. There is only 1 natural force capable to drag such kind of sediments, and I'm not talking about rain..... but at some point time the rain trigger the catastrophe that destroy the retain walls on those extinct lakes.
So far only futures research will determinat and confirm if a disaster truly happened and when did happened. But one thing I know..... that the event bury all the evidence af that ancient civilization..... and now black soil or Terra Preta covers the all savannas
after the civilization was gone.
So.... one more question...... that terra preta was man made? or is just a natural process??
I hope this information would be helpful
any question dont''t doubt on contact me
I am very please to help
👆 This could be the missing key, only future investigations will prove it.
I will release an english versión soon
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Well done Juan! Very Interesting!!!😊🙂☺
Fascinating information :) I suggest that the dark earth may be called a product of both economical and ecological activity ;()
I wonder if U are familiar with the Altiplano, and the site of Atlantis as proposed by the cartographer John Allen a British cartographer and archaelogy enthusiast?? I think if there was a city in that region around the time of the last Ice-Age, then this Amazonian civilization of waste and water management was probably connected with it. It was certainly natural processes that ended that settlement, when Lake Popo receded, with a possible volcanic eruption nearby being a likely catastrophy for the people there - fitting with the story told by Plato. Maybe U are right about the region U are looking at - although it is likely the population loss due to the outbreak of epidemics of smallpox was contributary to a weakening of the ability of the people to maintain the systems they employed to control the floodwaters too. And let us not forget the exploits of the Portugese slavers.
Well done. JP.
@@Tomorer Respect to the Altiplano sites that you mention……. Yes, I have read some about Jim Allen‘s work in “Pampa Aullagas” near to Poopo Lake and the relationship that he is been made of his discoveries with the legend of Atlantis base on Plato’s writings. Personally, I believe that Allen’s findings are very important to have a better understanding of those barely know ancient civilizations, and the research that he’s been made so far is very helpful to the scientific community for future investigations; but trying to relate Atlantis legend to an specific location just because a few matches with Plato’s written it doesn’t prove it existence. Everybody knows that there are several places in the world that people believe that Atlantis could be located, including Bolivia of course, just like Allen suggests.
I don’t want to be misunderstood respect to Allen’s theory, all his researches are very important to the scientific community; what he says is that base on his findings there is a “Possibility” that Atlantis did exist, pointing to Bolivia as a possible location, and I truly respect it. The way I see it, make totally sense……. The discoveries that he made on the Altiplano respect to that civilization have a huge world wise impact because he related it to the mystic legend of Atlantis, that’s is why people like me for example got to hear about Jim Allen’s work; let use this documentary as another example…… there is NO scientific prove so far that El Dorado (as a legend) is located in Beni, Bolivia or that the TERRA PRETA has a relation to the place where the legend took place. The fact that the word “El Dorado” is included in this Terra Preta’s title documentary is what probably called most of the viewer’s attention. Only futures investigations will certainly prove the veracity of this legend.
Leaving aside Atlantis location theory, I believe Allen’s work on the Bolivian Altiplano is pointing on the correct direction, he argue that the civilization that use to live on that region did collapse because the impact of severe weather changes. Even Allen consider that another place that help to explain the Atlantis theory as a possible location in Bolivia are the flat flooded savannas on Beni’s region located almost 700 kilometers North East from Pampa Aullagas. Is not a surprise that the region (Beni) that Allen refer to, is the same one mentioned by Clark Erickson as a possible location for El Dorado legend base on this Terra Preta documentary, knowing in fact that an ancient agriculture population “Moxos Hydraulic Civilization” truly develop and also collapse on this region.
As a personal opinion, I believe that the scientific community sometimes is looking at the wrong places; others look at the right places but with the wrong perspective, and what is even worse….. sometimes a few others are looking at the right place on the correct angle and perspective but an involuntary blindness won’t let them to see the highlights clues. We need to start thinking outside the box.
To support my statement, I am going to refer to the exact worlds mentioned by a very successful science woman like Temple Grandin. As an autistic person who has reach very important achievements on animal science field, Dr Temple Grandin refer to herself as a “Visual thinker” like one of the different categories mentioned on her book (Thinking in Pictures). Grandin also ensures that “The scientific method of inquiry and interpretation is used to understand phenomena by gathering evidence through observation and experiment, evaluating the results, and drawing conclusions that can be tested by many, many people over and over”. She also attributes her professional success to her specific way of thinking saying that “Visual Thinker” persons are basically “Bottom-up thinkers”; that means that they form concepts out of very different specific examples. She also mentioned that creativity in been limited by overspecialized degrees.
Now, keeping in mind those concepts….. how the scientific community will try to explain (base on a barely handful information) the agriculture methods or the collapse reasons for ancients cultures like “Moxos hydraulic Civilization” just to set up an example….. if they come to this region to do research just for one or two months every 2 or 3 years and just during the Dry Season ? to me It doesn’t make any sense at all…… If scientific community wants to understand a civilization that supposedly developed a successful agriculture based on the annual flooded season…….. at least, at least they need to stay for an all rainy period and see all the ancient earth work structure interacting with annual inundation water, as far as I know…. That is not happening.
To reach that goal, is also very important to have different kind of thinkers working together as a team contributing with them specialized area knowledge….. archaeologist, anthropologist, geologist, cartographers, hydraulic engineers, native farmers, etc.
Until then…… we will just have more and more questions but not answers.
I appreciate this. As far as the Atlantis in the Andes proposition goes all I can say is, 'there can be only one'. Beware misinformation and misdirection, even simple misunderstanding. It is obviously the top candidate. It doesn't just tick a few boxes on Plato's descriptive, list. It ticks all the boxes. In particular the unfathomable ancientness that researchers like Graham Hancock will agree is quite likely. Atlantis was a settlement of an Ice Age civilization. I think I will be posting the 'Atlantis in the Andes' video soon. I just need to overlay an English audio over a Russian dubbed version that do not quite sync. Quite laborious.
Can you imagine the freedom from stress and anxiety’s ! No worry besides growing food and enjoying life!! Wow that must be amazing !
That is quite idealistic. Disease, injury, infection, etc ... wherever humans are...
@@bch5513you will find that in unstressed society there are less diseases :)
@@bch5513free of it now tho..... 😅 😂😂😂😂😂
@@bch5513lol true. Half the planet lives this way and are dying to migrate to modern countries.
Recently the fact that people no longer eat out of their gardens - where the wood ash from the stoves were spread - was brought up in an interview of Dr. Joel Wallach on TAJS/Infowars. Because of this, Wallach points out, the MINERALS this adds to the soil, do not get into the food, and the NUTRITION one gets from one's food, suffers. TERRA PRETA, as part of a constant process of charcolization of our waste, is not only the secret to high crop yield, but wellness too... El DORADO!
Is used cat litter, clumping and non clumping, also good for the soil? Non clumping is maybe too durable, compared.
@@rolfpoelman3486 You need to check the ingredients of it. Most non-clumping cat litter is just clay, which does not benefit the garden soil at all. If it is made of plant-based things such as beet pulp it could add organic material to the soil.
Well, then they need to utilize captured carbon for fertilizer then...do something useful other than preach apocalypse, sort our massive landfills etc. Humanity evolved becuase of ingenuity and an intimate connection with the earth operating under the virtue of let nothing go to waste...utilize it as a resource!
@@rolfpoelman3486 it's why they used used broken pottery I believe, for aeration and slow disintegration of fired clay. Interestingly enough, the cultural phenomenon still lingers today in breaking glass but smashing pottery also goes back to ancient Egypt and like the people adding ash to their gardens would also add broken China. It seems we are losing our customs and traditions which is really sad, actually
@@ohio_gardener hard clay non clumping litter seems to maybe soften when wet.
And is it also what sandy soil needs?
Some lands were found in the north of ancient Egypt, where they have a very high content of charcoal, in addition to the presence of ancient pottery fragments and the remains of bones. It is noted that these lands are highly fertile. Our interpretation of it was that it was a kind of pharaonic magic or similar, and we did not understand why this large amount of charcoal and why the land is highly fertile, but you solved the mystery Thank you for the wonderful effort.
It's obvious to me there was a pre flood civilization that cut stone and created living soil.
Egyptians didn't cut stone, nor did the Incas- they moved into abandoned buildings they claimed as their own.
An excellent share.
@@GardenerEarthGuy
I don't think "They" claimed them as their own, Mainstream Archaeologists did that for them.
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I wonder if the ancients made biochar during their kilning processing of their pottery. Maybe that is obvious but nobody kind of mentioned it. This is a wonderful video and it gives so much optimism of making good our soil.
I have to say that I am encouraged by the discoveries revealed in this video production. It gives hope to humanity.
It seems unlikely that their pottery was fired in a kiln with the biochar. Biochar is produced in an oxygen-deficient atmosphere. The pottery I am familiar with gets lighter in mass (weight) and generally weaker in strength when fired in a reduction atmosphere. It also seems likely, or at least possible, that both biochar and pottery were made with separate processes neither of which used a kiln. However, some biochar might have been recovered from a process in which they fired their pottery. Raku style pottery can be fired in an open fire.
I know that in Amazon, near Manaus, the charcoal-producing process continues to be open beds of wood which are smothered with "terra preta" to put out the fires( my informant did not know what kind of earth that referred to, and knew nothing about terra preta as discussed here), leaving charcoal behind. These beds are used some 10 years before the people move on (no more wood nearby). The local people recognize that these beds then are very fertile for planting. At the same time, most Indians that I know of ( even my neighbors here in the drylands of NE Brazil) make their pottery in open fires. Sometimes the pots split open- that would explain the potterly shards. So my hunch is that Terra Preta was just a charcoal-making sysem which was then planted.
Here's a scenario to think about. You start out with a small village site, maybe a family or two,. They need charcoal to fire their pottery so they make a kiln or two around the village. They clear some trees, fill up the kiln, make the charcoal and destroy the kiln to get the charcoal. The fine charcoal mixes with the soil from the kiln over and over, the large charcoal is recovered and cared away. After a few repeats of this process, the trees and wood they need to continue are now further away from the kiln sites. Since the kilns are just dirt mounds.....they simply restart the process closer to the source of the trees. Why haul the wood longer distances? It's heavy....hauling the charcoal is easier. As this process repeats over and over.....you have more and more kiln sites expanding outward....where more charcoal is mixed with more soil over generations until massive swaths of terra preta(or terra preta conditions) are created. At the same time this is going on....crops are being planted on this newly cleared land because why wouldn't you?. Waste is being dumped. The soil is being kept moist, rich and organic material is being added. The village keeps growing and the boundaries expand outward. It makes reasonable sense to me. I think you're totally correct.
Denise Ward I like your thinking, it seems very plausible to me.
doubt it, you need a pretty hot burning fire for pottery making. they probably burned massive piles of logs in the fields then buried them inspired by forest fires.
I know that in Amazon, near Manaus, the charcoal-producing process continues to be open beds of wood which are smothered with "terra preta" to put out the fires( my informant did not know what kind of earth that referred to, and knew nothing about terra preta as discussed here), leaving charcoal behind. These beds are used some 10 years before the people move on (no more wood nearby). The local people recognize that these beds then are very fertile for planting. At the same time, most Indians that I know of ( even my neighbors here in the drylands of NE Brazil) make their pottery in open fires. Sometimes the pots split open- that would explain the potterly shards. So my hunch is that Terra Preta was just a charcoal-making sysem which was then planted.
Sounds plausible. Many amazing inventions were unintentionally discovered. Penicillin is a good example. This terra preta was probably accidental as well untill they realised what they had and then began to "manufacture" it
Doesn't explain the sheer size of some fields,one of which in the Amazon is the size of the UK.
@Timothy Blazer the system is the size of the UK , not a single " island" .
I like the theory, I would think human waste was a factor as well
the most important recourse for humans is water. capturing floodwater used to be the key element in survival for all animals.
Reading 1491, an account of early Amerindian culture adds depth to this. Flying over western Mato Grosso Sul, Brazil and Bolivia there is more evidence of extensive roads, canals and agriculture. The Science article "Black is the New Gold" adds more, as do studies ongoing as at IBI on biochar. Results of using biochar in agriculture are interesting and other regeneerative ag stories at AcresUsa most encouraging..
It's no lie the greenhouse effect is the main threat to human survival. Definitely a glass ceiling up there.
@@Tomorer The big threat in the world is not the weather is the goverments and elits !!!!
I’ve just turned 72. I’ve gardened a long time. I’m presently applying terra preta to my entire grow areas. I may get that rest break !
The first time I heard of Terra Pretta I breathed a huge sigh of relief. No more turning a compost heap. I could let the element of fire, used discretely and intelligently, transform my biomass into usable carbon quickly. Elegantly simple and effective, I see BioChar used in micro gardenias the pinnacle of sustainable agriculture.
They say biochar needs to be charged or activated for use in the garden. For example, mix it with compost, or add it to the garden in fall and let it settle in over the winter. Adding raw char by itself can reduce yields the first year, for some crops, because it can soak up nutrients needed by plants.
Fed t cattle, pigs even fish and shrimp biochar improves digestion and reduces emissions from animals then leaves them as pre innoculated soil improver
Joel Schneider Thats right, well said mate
from destruction comes new life
You need to compost it or u have no microbes
Absolutely amazing, this is great to see after reading up about Biochar
Your accompanying text is brill - I agree the message is to have a system in harmony and balance! PS. Bonus feature from over 10 years ago still eye-opening ...
Thank you for sharing @Tomorer - here's to the magic of life!
There is an ancient Greek saying which exactly describes the situation here ΆΝΘΡΑΚΕΣ Ο ΘΗΣΑΥΡΌΣ the treasure was charcoal.
Nooo 🪴🎸, European Found nothing
Asian Ancient Civilization Far more save than European
You European Destroy the World with collonialism, imperialism and Capitalism
Plastic element created by European not Asian
Europe bring Disaster to 2/3 World
This is a great video. Need follow up. Thanks for sharing great knowledge of Indians. 🙏
Great video but it runs off the rails at about 52;00
CO2 levels in the atmosphere are 430 ppm or expressed as a fraction less than 1/2 of 1/10th of 1%. CO2 is the single most important plant nutrient on the planet and our plants barely have enough, they are in a carbon dearth. In the past CO2 levels have been 1,000 times higher and we still went into an ice age.
CO2 levels do not precede global warming but follow global warming with an 800 year lag. We are lied to about everything
When I hear ancient Americas, I think of Incas, Mayans, Aztecs and Olmecs but now, the Amazonians - absolutely fascinating!
Great video. Amazing ancient Indians. 👍
And Mesopotamians and Danube Valley Civilizations, Cucuteni-Trypillia and everywhere else in the world...especially Egypt...there were mound builders!! It's such an amazing and incredible story and much more ancient than 10k years! They currently mine Terra Preta from an ancient civilization in Italy as well and controversy over selling Ukrainian dark earth soils...same sort of earthen mounds, ditches, water management techniques, earthworks...even the Caddo would burn their settlements every 70 or 80 yrs or so just like the Cucuteni-Trypillia like some sort of Callipic moon cycle event...extremely intriguing especially when science negates the facts. Just take a look at the global distribution of mollisols...it's incredible! I personally can't wait until AI is applied to all the information out there and connect all the dots it takes a regular human with enough obsession a lifetime to learn!
This really needs to be updated.
The value of it is that it isn't marred by the Mainstream Academic Darwinian Paradigm. Much greater in Authentic Academic interpretation.
Authentic Academics follow the "Standards of Science and Research", rather than holding a 19th Century Theory as fact and forcing all to fit into its relative Paradigm.
Great video but it runs off the rails at about 52;00
CO2 levels in the atmosphere are 430 ppm or expressed as a fraction less than 1/2 of 1/10th of 1%. CO2 is the single most important plant nutrient on the planet and our plants barely have enough, they are in a carbon dearth. In the past CO2 levels have been 1,000 times higher and we still went into an ice age.
CO2 levels do not precede global warming but follow global warming with an 800 year lag. We are lied to about everything
Its a grass roots movement thing. I mean, sure, commercialization will face obstacles. We even have a bastardization of the magic through a patented pyrolysis process to form pellets based on the use of charcoal, thrown in with a buch of fertilizaers for one - accepting on a commercial scale huge amounts of charcoal is difficult to obtain. Maybe commercial is not what this is about. For a co-operative of families with some land, year upon year, the magic can really happen; think cumulativity.
I think the magic also has to do with marshlands and bog soils especially when considering the scale and extent that the ancients went through to intentionally erect habitation on earthen platforms and or mounds eventually leading to the most incredible monuments in all of history...the leveled mastabas and great pyramids within the marshlands of Egypt! Fermentation and sweltering heat must also contribute as well.
Wonderful documentation. Thanks.
I guess, it's about allowing as much life (quality) per volume that is possible, i.e. with charcoal.
Hahaha. :-) As I was continuing to look this documentation: Yes, that has been said.
Look for the newest interview of Joe Rogan and Paul Stamets. I excerpt it follows: We, as the fungi people, should be those, who create(/allow for) the grounds for life.
(ruclips.net/video/mPqWstVnRjQ/видео.html)
How inspiring!!!
Sound track has a touch of the Revenant
I am just learning about this and note you mention wood ash. I have plenty of that from primarily heating with wood. I used to put wood ash on my garden, but did it sparingly for fear of adding too much alkaline to the soil thereby raising the PH too much. I wonder if/how biochar affects the PH?
Not the same thing.....they say that in the video. Charcoal is the key
With terra preta, namely charcoal and natural vegetal wastes may be we could bring the rain forest back in to the australian desert as it was once upon in the past. You start the experiment for exemple not far from daintree national park and you go on towards the deserts..... since both amazonia and australian desert has got the same kind of oxysoil basis. More than that terra preta is so living and reproduce itself. It s almot self conscient. What do you think about that?
everything we can think of will be made someday!
Hear me out. It’s a charcoal making process. They used charcoal for everything from cleaning water and so on. Charcoal gets charged after a long time of sucking up all those nutrients. So leave a huge patch of charcoal somewhere near a river for 500 years and come back and boom. Tera Petra
Looking at the fields made by raising strips above flood plains, is it possible that this was the instigator for the biochar? If you start with forested land and cut it , pile it, dig a channel to raise the adjacent strip and then chuck the branches etc back in the trough and burn it there, that would result in charcoal rather than ashes with the relative lack of oxygen. The relative fertility in the trough could have led to experiments bringing that soil up to dress the field strips.
Very interesting!! I recently watched a documentary (in French) about the Tarim Basin Mummies and noticed Poplar trees in the desert which opened a whole can of worms and is seriously interesting if you have the time to check it out but what stood out the most besides cultivation and transport/trade of these trees along with ancient customs and legends around the world...is that they are renewed and spawned by fire. Granted all forests thrive after a good burn but it seems to be more of a symbiotic relationship with possible human activity especially where forests have been depleted or do not grow as a source of renewable wood and potentially could be used as bio char in the future although I would rather find better ways to reuse what we are already wasting now.
Hallelujah! The Miracle Ap (no more killer ap) that can truly power universal education in how to live in harmony with nature and each other!
The Scientist that's working with the Village has said on another program that the Indian King wants all marketing rights to the Bio Char. Otherwise they will not give permission or answer questions. I found it while surfing through You tube but I didn't keep the show. It was a conference on bio char and I heard his voice speaking from an audience mic .
Nice info, thanks!
42:00 WOW! 880% increase in yield!!!
AWSOME
A few months ago they just discovered some ruins,called "Ciudad Blanca" in the jungles of
Honduras in Central America. Then is possible we will discover more ancient prehistoric civilizations.
Who knows what's buried beneath the cities even...these mound builders often chose the best places for any modern society along traversible navigation routes with abundant resources. In the middle east, they build tells and continue to build upon them to this very day. But yes, who knows what is still buried or hidden in the rainforest, I suppose if archeologists continue to dig instead of stopping at the 12k yr mark because that is when they believe Siberians crossed the Bering Straight the New World is much, much more ancient than currently believed!
An error on my description. In the banked fire was incomplete pieces of burnt wood. If prior heating drove of most of the gases and placed in the ashes where the heat would drive off all of the volatiles leaving only the carbon and inadvertly removed to the dump site along with waste such as urine and feces along with organic material you end up with improved soils.
I like the Harry Potter music 22 min in. I think terra preta started as a fish pond that held biochar and fish poop/humanure and trash over time and built up. Looks like the raised pathways were for towing barges with ropes.
@ 21:09 haha yes thats classical BBC fayre
*See also, "Terra Pretta" documentary here on RUclips. It is surprising a more Authentic Academic interpretation than most documentaries of our era.*
Authentic Academics follow the "Standards of Science and Research". They don't hold a 19th Century Theory as Fact.
The irony I find here is that apparently back when there was such a vast civilization thriving there, the "rain forest", they are now concerned about....didn't exist as we know it today. The civilization there at that time which made the terra preta more than likely kept the rain forest manicured and suppressed (managed). More than likely it was their resource for the bio-char they used to make the terra preta. My guess is that with such a vast civilization, most of their resource was refuse including broken pottery, animal waste and waste products and human sewage. Left to compost in the tropical environment it would rapidly build heat and compost, sanitizing it as it matured. Then in the final stages, it was likely seeded with living compost which had all the microbes, bacteria and fungi already living in it. Their developed roads likely ensured they could take their refuse in masse to the next developmental area (dump site). Once their civilization was wiped out quickly, their practices weren't able to be learned generationally and passed down to current times.
Awsome
i had tried this fuel to improve my pot's soil.
Singapore gov had done this on the road side trees to improve its fertility, which is proven useful
How is it possible that this film is dedicated to dr. James Petersen (1954-2005) when it is made in 2002 (MMII)? Strange. Great video.
Terra Pretta may have developed by accident and keen observation. In an era where matches or fire starter was non existant, they may have banked a fire to retain the hot coals for hours until they wanted to cook another meal. In unearthing some of the coals, it's possible that some remained unearthed and with the absences of air didn't cook to ash and therefore became what is charcoal. Cleaning out excess ashes and also the charcoal, they eventually realized that the soil was more productive. Connecting the dots and you build terra pretta soils.
"But if there had been a great society here ... how could it have disappeared so suddenly?" 35:50 [suspenseful music sting] Duunn, duunn, duunn!! Displays cross. #vampires
Introduced European diseases that the Amazonians had no immune resistance. This happened to other cultures that Europeans came into contact with. Pacific Islanders suffered tragically is also another example.
Seaweed. They found algae in the soil. Charge with seaweed. All the nutrients of the land wash down into the rivers and oceans where it is taken up by the seaweed aka algae at the bottom of the food chain. The sites are all next to the river.
I interesting. Never thought about algae's role in soil fertility but Ur right it must be important. Definitely wetness is key. My hope is for our organic waste (bringing toxic waste to zero first) can all run through the sewers into reed bed farms, and these then to be harvested and turned into terra preta. Charr the reeds and mix with the root mush. Loads of algae will surely be in there 😉
@@TomorerI like your thinking. But the modern chemicals are forever chemicals and even drugs like the sythetic estrogen in the contraceptive pills do not go away. I think we are already too far down the road to disaster with the money too attractive to Bayer, Astra Zeneca etc. For them to end sales of all forever chemicals in drugs and agricultural products. One thing I have observed is none of these greedy f"""ers care at all about our planet and the plastic apocalypse or the over fishing that will end our seas. They are selling global warming blah, blah blah as a distraction from forever chemicals that will destroy the microbiome that all of this is about. The terra pretta is all about micro biomes if you ask me. Humans are ignorant of the yeasts, bacteria and fungi who could return our planet to abundance.
I’ve never heard any of this. Why is it not taught in school history classes? Should be.
What music is it at 9:50?
That char needs to be activated!! Just throwing it out is not a good solution. It's taken that woman's farm 10 years to reclaim the soil when activated char would have done it almost immediatly !!!!
Indigenous people class their riches as abundance of food and people and sharing for everyone. To manage that is their gold. The Europeans misunderstood the meaning of richness they had.
Exactly. Golden fields and metal gold used for decoration. Who could have known they did not keep piles of money in bank vaults?
@@Tomorermy Auntie was married to a lovely Indian man. She told me in India people ( the wives) wear their money on themselves. I recently saw a picture of a 100 year ago Estonian lady wearing really thick gold chains looking like a Roma Gypsy. No wonder in the 1930's they were persecuted by the Little Moustached man who RUclips will no longer allow us to type his name. Gold, some one somewhere knows the correct use for it I am sure!
I've been looking for the music @9:50 for a while, any ideas?
Terra Preta... amazonians had to dig out the soil first. needed to haul it out most likely in clay pots. deep holes, dropped their cheap pots in and didn't bother to carry the damaged pots back to the compost pile, cheap pots made from same type soil, from the second hole or the other end of the huge garden plot. fired quickly, and ready to use, filled with ashes from those fires and compost or water to moisten the dry ingredients--
next trip
just my guess.
if the farmers harvest the terra preta and sell it, leaving a little so it can 'grow back' then how can then it be charcoal? charcoal doesn't grow back. so ultimately terra preta is humus. perhaps adding an initial bit of carbon jump starts the process in very poor soils, but once it gets going it is no longer needed in soils with enough organic material.
Maybe the clay from the pots has a role to play too, in the cation exchange of the soil. Both clay and charcoal bind the nutrients and also they probably protect the humic acid in the composted material so it does not get gobbled up in rain forest conditions. Microbes might not eat charcoal. Good point though AND FORGET THE COMMENT BY JOKER, HE IS AN IDIOT FOR BEING A RUDE INTERNET TROLL.
Joker So its just top soil then? no charcoal or rock dusts?
I kind of like this idea..... I wrote a comment base on my experience and a few things that I found on the savannas that appear on this video.
Take a look on the top. That May help all of us to have a better undestanding. only future investigation will reveled the real answer
Common sense would be that they had garbage dumps, and decided to burn it to get rid of the smells and waste. After years they would have noticed the effect on the old dumps that had been no longer in use. Having profound, vegetation growing at these sites.
Truly visionary insight :()
These people call maize as ibazi... In hindi here in India, the vegetable dishes are called sabazi!
Oh now you are talking my language! I am English started learning Russian and was told about the fact that Sanskrit scholars in Russia can understand the language without learning it. I am left in no doubt that Sanskrit was most probably one of the most spoken languages worldwide once ;)
Started using charcoal in my garden since I quit raising fish in my house and used the filter charcoal in my garden..in 1976.
i realy liked the zooming in at 36:20
It was all water, like a natural version of Venice. They dammed the main river, lived and farmed on slightly raised mounds. That's why everything was raised up. Must've been paradise.
Nowadays we use all the water for GMO crops, cattle feed, and bathing. or just let it run into the ocean.
trendy thanks bro
I like how they poise this as some discovery. Organic farmers have known and understood this for a century or longer. Big Ag, simply couldn't convince themselves profit in it. And SOLD a different narrative than the truth... the truth being that fields left fallow produce better than fields treated with Big Ag.
It sounded like a Harry Potter movie starting at 21:25 🤷🏻♂️😂😂😂🧙🏼♂️
I thought the same thing haha!
Oh hello... didn't see Ur comment until now... is it on RUclips?
There will be great resistance from corporations with vest economic interest because terra-preta can make GE-Free, GMO-Free, and Non-hybrid traditional natural genetic seed varieties of all crop species to become 4 to 8.8 times more productive than conventional chemical farming using GE- or GMO-terminator seeds. People living on natural genetic food varieties grown on terra-preta remains healthy and are never sick since the natives immune system has adopted resistance to old world diseases.
Hi,
Are there companies who can transform soil into terra-preta soil?
Or, can one transform their soil into terra-preta on their own?
How quickly can one transform soil into terra-preta?
Thank you
@@incorectulpolitic You have to do it yourself. The entrenched Agro-Chemical companies will immediately try to destroy anyone who sets up a company to do just that. Mix powdered organic charcoal mixed with humus at a ratio of 10 cubic feet of powdered organic charcoal to 1 cubic foot of fully fermented plant compost humus and add water little by little as you mix it to moisten it inorder to bio-activate the biogeochemical process into it as found also in soil. Add that mixture into the soil so that the soil will have a biochar (bio-activated powdered organic charcoal) content of 25%.
For example: 12 inches of soil divided by 3 = 4 inches, then add 4 inches of biochar on top of it and deeply till-mix it into that 12 inch thick layer of soil creating a 16 inch thick biochar treated soil.
After that you must add 5 to 10 kilograms of rock dust powder per square meter (this ratio is for severely damaged soil) and deeply till-mix it into that 16 inch thick layer of biochar treated soil, transforming-creating a rock dust powder remineralized biochar treated soil.
Then plant a 50-50 seed mixture of perennial clovers and tillage radish into it as you also plant your crops. The perennial clovers will form a permanent nitrogen-fixing perennial living mulch while the tillage radish will grow deeply into the soil vertically and laterally-horizontally to break up the subsoil and bring up more mineral nutrients and trace elements nutrients into the surface.
When the tillage radishes bolts and flowers it will then start to ferment into humus to feed your crops and the perennial clovers.
The fully fermented tillage radishes will then create a highly porous soil whose porous structure will be stabilized by the permanent roots of the perennial clovers (white dutch clover, kura clover and even crown vetch) which will be mowed-mulched by a mulching mower which can either be manually powered or gasoline powered, but keep the manually powered mulching mower as a safety SHTF ready to use and go into action equipment.
Mow-mulch the perennial living mulch before planting your crops on the same day, the mulch will fall between the uncut stems and leaves of the perennial living mulch to keep them in place and this freshly cut-mulched fine cuttings will conserve moisture underneath it and insulate the soil from too much solar heat. And as time passes it will slowly ferment into fresh humus as an another layer of freshly cut and mulched fine plant cuttings is placed over it.
@@darthvader5300 what do you think about regenerative farming promoted by Gabe Brown?
Here are his videos: ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=Gabe+Brown+soil&sp=CAI%253D
Is he unknowingly transforming 'normal' soil to terra-petra, by using his methods ?
@@incorectulpolitic I've seen his videos already. Regenerative farming is good but now time is of the essence. If you are a multi-millionaire right now who have all of the needed resources, then you will have to proceed to terra preta - biochar and rock dust powder remineralization. Time is the key here, if you have asked me this question then I would have said yes, proceed with his regenerative farming. But now it is "TIME" is the key to survival and if you can afford it, then you can also apply terra preta - biochar and rock dust powder remineralization to regenerative farming.
@@darthvader5300 Gabe Brown mentioned that the problem is not lack of minerals in the soil but the lack of micro-organisms, especially a specific fungus that draws the minerals from the soil into the plants and also helps retain water in the soil, makes the soil porous.
He tested his soil before it was 'healed' and also after he began the regenerative process and found out that ALL the minerals increased in the soil AND in the plants WITHOUT adding minerals or ANYTHING to the soil. I mean this is AMAZING.
Have you seen BBC Unnatural Histories 3. Amazon
it follows this up
I hope the Civilization System on the Amazon Savanna The Moxos are ( World Heritage ) listed. As far as I'm concerned it's as important as The Inca's and The Maya Pyramid. It's one of the Ancient Wonders of the World and needs protection and not sold off in pieces.
When the policies of the forestry stopped the burning of under growth they failed to see the importance of it now we have out of control forest fire's and they ban us at the home front's to not burn our grasses in the yard's me grand father burned the grass and the wood's around the farm at a regular plan of 7 times a month or to those religious every other season
Agreed, I think that is the problem in California now
Found it... been looking for another rare video to upload... it doesnt seem to be on here unless it is under a different title... I think I will use 'Civilization of Earth'... or something like that ;()
This and "Terra Pretta" are truly rare documentary finds.
Both are surprising more Authentic Academic interpretation than most documentaries of our era.*
Authentic Academics follow the "Standards of Science and Research". They don't hold a 19th Century Theory as Fact.
There can be a host of reasons why documentaries are leaning so heavily to "Mainstream Academia" Darwinian Theory and Paradigm, but it is noticeable that it occurred after Ted Turner sold his 24hr Cable News + Murdoch bout Fox News and started his.
2 most Powerful Tools of Influence are:
Information and Money
That's News Media and the Federal Reserve Bank *Corporation*
The 3rd is now Technology
The one that use to be in the top 3 is Religion. (Not to be confused with Spiritual Belief)
On a positive note, the Creator of this Universe factored us into it and gave us a Powerful Positive ability:
*Thoughts create Reality*
Thoughts = Energy that Vibrates on a Frequency and that frequency attracts like frequencies from the Universe and those manifest into our 3D reality.
Quantum Physics defines this as the *"Universal Law of Attraction"*
When we become aware of this + learn the process + correct any learned inaccuracies and (get the Subconscious Mind to buy into the real facts and Conscious Decisions, + make a habit of Conscious Thoughts + applying the Higher Mind
Add all and multiply by Knowing-Believing (Knowing is the higher Octave of Belief and = the "Mustard Seed" referenced by Yeshua/Jesus.
Then we have "Mastered our ability and practice of using the "Universal Law of Attraction" in Conscious Creating.
What this means?
Our Thoughts are our Power, we need not give this away by allowing (individuals, groups, or News Media) others thoughts, to cause us any concern.
We need keep our thoughts focused on the desired, the positive, and we will create that where Thoughts + Feelings + Focus X Knowing-Belief are aimed and this is *"Absolute"*
Few things are Absolute 8n our 3D Reality and this actually is.
Whether we learn about it or not, apply the Conscious Positive Thoughts or not, we are doing the creating of our own Reality all the time and will all our Physical life.
But, when one is Aware and fully Understanding of the subject, and you add more and more until it reaches > 50% of the Public, well just imagine how much the Reality we share as a Collective would improve.
Oh the reality of Peace, Harmony, Cooperation, on a world-wide scale just became a whole lot more Real.
Peace truly does begin within.
We are Powerful Individuals, particularly *when we know and understand the facts.*
When we begin to incorporate this Universal Law into our Parenting of Children and applying in interaction with others the positive values grow and grow.
In one of the Gnostic Gospels, the *"Gospel of Thomas"* found along with several others and some that are in the New Testament in the Nag Hamadi Library find, one not included when Constatine's Priests were compiling the Bible for his "1 State Religion", called Christainity ("but not modeled fully on the practices and teachings of Jesus" or all Christians would be practicing Judiasm and not necessarily in the fashion of our friends in the Synagogues today, but Yeshua/Jesus was not peddling a new Religion, rather sharing a more enlightened interpretation of the Torah and living the Life Journey, possibly also influenced by his higher studies and most probably also by Ancient Knowledge. As Quantum Physics didn't discover the Universal Laws and particularly the "Law of Attraction" until the 20th Century. Yet many of his teachings were *"based on the foundation of the "LOA".*
But I digress.
The "Gospel of Thomas" is 98% Yeshua speaking to Thomas and includes "How to Pray to Receive", "...pray as though you have already received" = an appreciation of having that which you desire(d).
Now, the folks that benefit from the public not knowing and/or realizing the true power of their Thoughts and the "LOA" would be "?"
Those whom benefit by encouraging the Public to remain in their "Lower-Mind aka Ego-Mind aka Adolescent Mind" and further encourage the "Emotional Maturity of about a 3rd to 5th grader" that which Narcissist Personality Disorders are diagnosed to be strongly influenced by, would be "?'
Those whom "bait" for reactions. (Using "Lead lines, Media venues, Inc Social Media Posts, Videos, Blog Articles) etc.
Even those whom are aware + practicing Conscious Thoughts can be distracted by the efforts, which is Why I no longer watch Mainstream News Media nor News Media or those venues that scream about a particular negative individual or situation, 9 years "Negative News influence free" (My degrees are in Journalism, Sociology, and History and I continue in studies and research) after a career in Marketing, Sales, and Sr Management/Admin, to clients in the Fortune 500 and Transportation Markets.
Keep the focus on living in the desire(d) with the feelings of the highest frequency.
Fear is the lowest, Hate and Anger are even above Fear. Love, laughter, happiness the Highest.
Spend time doing things in that frequency are: Play! Having Intimate energetic time, Creative in your Passions, see and feel the abundance in nature, appreciating that All Life has Consciousness.
...and share these facts with all whom are ready to listen.
The expansion of what I thought/felt viewing/listening to a documentary that wasn't shrouded in Mainstream ideology.
Thanks!
@@bethbartlett5692It's some good work. I only had to edit out a small amount of propaganda thrown in by the bosses. Have U seen 'Atlantic in the Andes'?
@@Tomorer This is a great video. Need follow up. Thanks for sharing great knowledge of Indians. 🙏
@@chanakyaisalive505 Ur most welcome. I recommend U check out the Terra Preta 'BBC UHIII' video. Alot of discovery is underway on this. I think there must be other documentaries going. These ones can be slipped through the C-net. Unlikely to get others on Ubertube. One good C- etted video is 'Atlantic in the Andes' which correlates somewhat to the Eldorado civ 😉
If we figure out their secret to building soil fertility, we could feed the world!
16:17 The car says "Yo" on the windshield.
It means "I" in Spanish, what of it?
mmm i wonder if a mix of rotted down woodchip/sawdust, charcoal and somesort of shell product could replicate this soil over time
I have tons of king crab shell I’ve been holding on it, wondering g if it could benefit the garden/
That ammont of labour to construct is staggering, must have been more conducive to of millions imo
06:40 and today we see that Betty was wrong.
I got two theories.
1. What if Spain did find it but kept it secret so now one would want to got to war with this large amount of wealth; leaving tribe to slowing die out.
2. Maybe Oriana was tripping out on some kind of hallucinogen and "Thought" she saw El Dorando
He never saw el dorado. The people he encountered they told him of a city of gold. Somewhere in the Amazon
Nope. Africans were the first to hit america. Long before they evolved into native americans and thousands of years before the spanish.
41:25 to 46:21 ruclips.net/video/0Os-ujelkgw/видео.html an 880% yield increase which is 8.8 times above average yields.
KGF a Kannada movie bought me here ❤️
37:00
Forgot to mention those pox ridden blankets, huh?
XDXDXD
Is there a Reader's Digest version?
Yes its on The Lost History Channel :)
This may be controversial but why dont we bio char humans? You could become part of the family food garden and or spread on the turf grasses, that require so much watering to help store moisture in the soil? Anf over time we could cover the whole planet in Bone Char. Yes bone char is a thing.
Well the Indians of Amazonia did indeed add all the waste, the bones too to their charr piles. People are sentimental though, and to call human remains 'waste' belies the concept of sanctity and proto-morality. A possible compromise might be to expose dead bodies to the elements and allow hungry beasts to get their fill. Damnit burial at sea is totally fine we can all agree. Really, nature does not need repayment, only respect.
The ancients had so much powerful knowledge - GENIUSES.... what a shame the SPANISH came along and KILLED THEM ALL... that is tragic loss of life and amazing knowledge.... their genius proves they must have known many other things too.
Les gens de la bas peuvent remercier les blancs qui ont construit leur pays et les ont multiplié de façon incommensurable
Make a clay pot, fill it with dry wood, set fire to the wood, the clay pot becomes red hot and hardens, with the charcoal left in it. Then use the pot to shit in it, put your ashes and sweepings, food leftovers (there were no leftovers as they used to be eaten by the animals), and then bring it to the field. You can even plan stuff in it, and use your greywater to water the nurseries. And then you just cover some place with those. Boom you have a no maintenance food garden.
Sounds like U have experience in this :()
Or to start with filter dirty summer water through the pot until the filtration is crap...then start using it as you say....because charcoal would stop the stink of faeces. Nice thinking!
Native Americans even in the U.S. did yearly burns. If you burn a place for centuries or thousands of years the little bits of charcoal that remains after a fire will add
Up.
Get 1 cubic foot of the original terra preta soil and mix it with a mixture of equal volumes of 1 cubic foot of fully fermented humus and 1 cubic foot of composite rock dust powders mixtures and 1 cubic foot of food grade activated carbon and 6 cubic feet of food grade diatomaceous earth. Mix and blend together while being sprayed with a fine mist of water containing dissolved rock dust powder dissolved into it past saturation point inorder to moisten it but not wet it, so that the biogeochemical processes can get activated to get started in reproducing the very same beneficial soil microorganisms that makes the terra preta soil simultaneously fertile and to make it to keep on growing and multiplying. Once that is achived, then you finally have a bioactivator that you can use to keep on producing more of that mixture of 1 cubic foot of the original terra preta soil and mix it with a mixture of equal volumes of 1 cubic foot of fully fermented humus and 1 cubic foot of composite rock dust powders mixtures and 1 cubic foot of food grade activated carbon and 6 cubic feet of food grade diatomaceous earth.
From where can one get the 1 cubic foot of the original terra preta soil?
@@incorectulpolitic Go to Brazil to get several sacks of that original terra preta soil and sneak it into the US. In the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s we got truck loads of that stuff and sent by military jets back into the former Soviet Union where it was used to multiply the amount at a careful rate. But we are in a hurry but wanted to do it under complete secrecy and testing it in various locations and sites in the former Soviet Union. Especially in present day Southern Russia.
@@darthvader5300 if the russians have it, would they sell some?
Once I got several sacks, what do I do with them?
@@incorectulpolitic That would be very difficult, especially with the present situation. Keep in mind our two countries are technically at war with each other indirectly in a proxy war in Ukraine. Your best bet will be to go to Brazil and look for such people but be careful for the law and order situation in that country is quite unstable.
Once you got several sacks, then I suggest you mix your American soil with 25% charcoal and do the rest. I know money is hard in your country and travel seems becoming more and more restricted by the month and by the year with so much requirements and regulations.
But if you really care, then it is up to you to decide if you want to take the risks of the expenses involved and that includes other logistics.
In fact, you should have started a long time ago when it is still easy to travel around and bring stuff from around the world and that time line is in the 1990s up to 2000s to 2010 to 2018 - 2019.
For example: 10,000 square meters of soil, 12 inches thick. Divide 12 inches by 3 = 4 inches x 4 = 16 inches and 4 inches is 25%. So put a layer of 4 inches of food grade activated charcoal or food grade activated carbon made from bituminous coal. Deep till that into the 12 inches of soil to create a 16 inch thick layer of soil containing 25% carbon. Then add 5 to 10 kilograms of rock dust powder per square meter (which is 50 to 100 metric tons per hectare) which is the recommended dosage for severely damaged soil as recommended by your American experts who helped write the Rodale Organic gardening magazines in the 1980s. And then add 2 to 3 inches of fully fermented compost called humus to bioactivate it.
But you recalculate only for 1 square meter and add 1 cup (1 liter) of your terra preta called biochar treated soil and mix them thoroughly while applying a fine mist of water in order to moisten it so that the moisture will bio-activate it's biogeochemical processes that you can find in very good soils which is now very hard to find these days. Except in Southern Russia, especially the lands near the Kuban River.
I am interested in being biocharred when I die, my campaigning may have set up the technology to do so by then, or I could have my family dig a trench in the back garden, fill it with me, compost, and paper waste, set me on fire and bury me to smoulder at 500 degrees C for five days. All they have to do is then dig me up and use me on the plants. This locks up my carbon in the soil for thousands of years and any costs will be paid for by improved crops. Are you with me?
the lidar scans shows that millions lived in the amazon this video is for 12 years ago
Oh yea lots of new discoveries. And this program is more like 21 years ago. From a more egalitarian era of public broadcasting.
The Smithsonian is wrong again, or they are liars
If you want to see how Biochar is made in the Peruvian Amazon check out this link: ruclips.net/video/KNFDOGWozKU/видео.html
The thing is we as civilized society we bury of dead they grind them up and reuse there dead from the ground we came back too it we go
41:29 to 43:21 ruclips.net/video/0Os-ujelkgw/видео.html An 880% increase is yield or 8.8 times above the normal average yield.
That's exactly how the "CYCLE of Life" is meant to be, I wouldn't Mind the Tibetan "Flesh Stripping" and feeding to the Eagles/Carrion birds of the mountains who would excrete me over a wide area and be Used for something decent and morally right. I live in a sea area of Huge tidal flows and have always said if allowed, take my body to sea and throw me overboard with some weights on me to keep me down....lol. As long as I'm dead 1st shouldn't bother me too much ;-)
> People have refused to put a price on Carbon
12 years ago
Yeah, but what if Oriana was just simply saying that those who use the Terra Preta will be or like El Dorando.
Alkalinity is not a severe problem. Not only in light of its successful use by the Amazonians, and the numerous other cases of similar waste management plans. But also because rain - usually acidic - will stabilize the pH back to the natural acidity that plants like.
I guess this works if U charr everything U have at the end of summer, spread it on the fields then let the winter rains wash it through. In the Amazon I guess thier summer may be all year, yet it rains throughout.
Let it rain!
We all need to put biochar into our farm land.
41:29 to 43:31 ruclips.net/video/0Os-ujelkgw/видео.html an 880% increase in yields or 8.8 times above the average yields of any crops.
41:41 the science you want
9:25 no.
no.
no.
Refer to Graham Handcock
It's a shame they still hold onto the christian dogma, and the ancient culture hasn't been reinstated
Les sacrifices humains 😂😂😂?
@@legueux3144 yeah, the christians did a great deal of sacrificing
I actually know a way !
at 43:16 nutrients do not become plant available until after it has been processed by soil organisms like fungi and bacteria.
45:54 - soil is a living medium. It is where most of the life on the planet lives in the form of fungi and bacteria. Plants depend of these organisms to get the required nutrients to grow. Strip mining it does not seem like an intelligent idea to me.
I think the charcoal is holding microorganisms which feed on the minerals. The fungi and bacterium then feed the plants. I think also the biochar keeps the soil aerated and less compacted.
Science does not know everything soil cant be that bad the damn AMAZON as a whole . How much green
This type of information makes me furious. As though I’ve been lied to my entire life about human history. Why is there so much important information that has been removed from history books?
It never went in the history books. That's the thing. Academia is corrupt.
Great video but it runs off the rails at about 52;00
CO2 levels in the atmosphere are 430 ppm or expressed as a fraction less than 1/2 of 1/10th of 1%. CO2 is the single most important plant nutrient on the planet and our plants barely have enough, they are in a carbon dearth. In the past CO2 levels have been 1,000 times higher and we still went into an ice age.
CO2 levels do not precede global warming but follow global warming with an 800 year lag. We are lied to about everything.
Don't worry this carbon sequestration causes isostatic resolution between oceanic and atmospheric CO2 reservoirs. We will reach optimal terra preta meridian way before any detrimental depletion occurs.
uhm.. if the Amazon has such poor soil (besides the terra pretta of course) how is it then that a gigantic rainforest jungle grows there?
Tom Poleski The jungle is auto sustainable, it feeds itself with its own "trash". As the leaves fall and plants and animals die all nutrients are brought again into the soil. High temperature and high humidity enhance the microbiological processes that turn the dead organisms into natural fertilizer. So that, the biomass is quickly turned into nutrients and the jungle remains alive.
It has poor soil but a whole lot of fertility up in the air above ground in the form of huge plants that grow and decay back into plant food very fast. It's a system that creates spectacular results but is easily thrown out of balance if you disrupt that growth-death cycle by weakening what little soil there actually is.
Tom P. Also the decay of plant matter doesn't actually reach the soil. The nutrients from the fallen leaves, branches etc. quickly decomposes in the high heat and humidity, so most of it doesn't actually fertilize the soil at all, as it breaks down too fast. However the plentiful fungi in the jungle breaks down the organic matter with their root systems spreading for miles which supplies it directly to the plants and trees. So no fungi, no jungle!
Tom P. Try to understand it like this. Most of the nutrients in a tropical rainforest is held in the vegetation not the soil. Leaves and dead trees fall to the forest floor and is quickly decomposed by the fungi that are present which the trees quickly feed on, what is not used by the trees is washed away by the heavy rains that fall in the tropics. That is the reason the rivers run brown in the tropics.
You can't eat trees right?... neither can you grow much food on a jungle floor. You need to clear down a section of the jungle so that your crops get sunlight to produce. What happens when you clear down a part of the jungle? Heavy rains will come and wash all the nutrients away and you've cleared away the trees so that there is no more leaves/rotting trees to replace the lost nutrients plus a lot of the fungi that were present on the once jungle floor will be destroyed.
The trick is to find a way to keep the nutrients in the soil and what you did with the vegetation you cleared is very important. If you burnt it, all the nutrients goes back into the atmosphere. If you keep it in a pile, as it rots the nutrients will leech as heavy rains comes.
The amazonians solved this problem by creating terra preta or what we call biochar today. By burning the material you cleared from the jungle in an airless environment you create something that holds on to nutrients/beneficial for fungi and sequesters carbon all of which is held in the soil even if torrential rains fall. Very beneficial for growing prolific crops!!
Brad Suarez summed it up better than i ever could of :P
To me obvious that its mainly the life in the soil (soil food web) thats creating such a fertile growing medium, especially when it "regrows". If you understand the soil food web (chain) you will realise the life in the soil are a large nutrient store, as they eat each other they release these nutrients to the plants. In places with lots of rain like a rain forest biochar (charcoal) helps holds onto nutrients that could be washed (leeched) from the soil.
If you work with biochar in an average soil you won't see the benifits they do in the rain forest. You wont see the benifits they compare with slash and burn too.
Even @ 56:50 she shows no amendments to the soil compared to biochar with CHICKEN MANURE. Then says its with and without biochar that has caused the yield incresse. She obviously should have amended both soils with chicen manure and then added biochar to one of them to see the yield difference.
As has been said here already, adding biochar that has not been "charged" with nutrients (manure/casts) could well negitively affect your yield, especially at the beggining.
Adding biochar to soil could also affect the soils PH, best to do a PH test on the soil and biochar to see if adding it could harm your soil. Care should be taken when adding any material with a liming capacity to slightly alkaline soils.