Tera Preta is in the river valleys, where those civilizations conducted their agriculture. It isn't in the rainforest, and it isn't sustaining the rainforest. The rainforest handles itself
I love biochar. Started using it about 6 years ago. Started small, now about to do 200 acres this spring. Just be careful not all biochars are created equal.
@@andrewevans4038 If the flame is not hot enough, there would be a lot of tar residue that not only will block the pores in the chare but also introduce carcinogen into the soil. The recommended temperature is at least 450°C. Also your feed materials may improve the nutrients content, cow dung or pig manure can be mixed before the burning to increase the phosphate content.
I just build a fire about 4ft square. Let it burn until the flames start to die then i hose the fire until it's put out. I wait an hour then I stir up the ashes and hose it down again. The next day I sift the charcoal through a screen made of 1/2" rabbit cage wire. I store the charcoal in metal trash cans. I spread about an inch of charcoal over my chicken coop floor and let the chickens scratch it in and poop on it and break it up for a few months. I shovel off the top two inches and I use it in my container garden Quick and easy.
This compilation is very helpful. Like your channel as it offers needed ideas for adaptation to current environmental conditions as well as observing better treatment of the planet. Thanks for presenting.
I just tried making some biochar in my pellet stove. It was just a small amount, but it worked. 2 empty bean cans filled of wood pellets pushed together and set it inside the stove. Next time, I'll add more.
Bio char is fantastic. I do think that it's benifits in a sandy porous soil like the Amazon is much different than most agricultural Soils and all clay Soils. Charcoal adsorbs toxic things as well as beneficial nutrients. In a heavy clay soil with a high nutrient holding capacity I think bio char role is less about retaining nutrients and more about the sequestration of toxic substances. Compost and manure based Fertilizer are fantastic sources of nutrients but also contain heavy metals and other undesirable things. Bio char can make these toxic substances less Bio available to our plants and reduce toxins we ingest in the process. Activated charcoal is used in hospitals as a response to counter act poisons and it can be used in a similar manner in composting and regenerative agricultural.
The narrators comments are not entirely correct. The greatest percentage of the Amazon rain forest is largely leached due the high rainfall and the heavy clay soils only anchor the trees with the roots growing up to the leaf debris to extract much needed nutrients. The biochar or as it is called Terra Preta meaning black soil is man made over hundreds if not thousands of years.
This is mostly a great video but the word that is missing is for people to understand is inoculation. Simply put, make your biochar by whatever method you choose, break it down, inoculate it with molasses, urea and mix it in to compost for a season and it is ready to use. It’s so easy. I’ve been using this method for 5 years now and have to literally give it away. I have black soil with worms and organic matter in my desert El Paso sand that I started with
I'm learning more and more that many issues I'm seeing here in the States with invasive plant species, wildfires, loss of diversity and poor soil, may be because the land is no longer tended to in a manner that the Native American did. I think it is deep in our DNA to want to tend to the land we occupy, but modern farming has made knowledge of how to do it, almost forgotten by most modern people.
Hi, I noticed you incorrectly labelled a clip from the weedy garden as ‘red gardens’, would be nice to correct this. Red gardens comes later with the earth kiln and wood in the wheelbarrow. Also wish to comment that it could be a little tricky to use info from general sources, as this is how myths are promulgated, better to use some of the excellent research that is available specifically for use in agricultural production. However, you have put together a lovely and easy to follow video, thankyou 😁😁
I live in the Amazon and most of the soil is terribly nutrient difficient. However wherever the natives applied biochar, Terra preta, those soils remain nutrient rich until today. I make and use biochar myself, such wonderful stuff. I just think it's misleading to say that the amazon region has incredibly rich soil as in general it doesn't. Wherever there is Terra preta the soils are rich and without it it isn't.
All we still need to know is how to distinguish the use of Biochar for use as Soil Amendment or in Carbon Sequestration, with less or no release of Greenhouse gases from the very same Soil
6:22, 6:53 same mistakes - wrong name of source... It's the same with 'David The Good', those aren't his video frames... I follow both of them ('The Weedy Garden' and 'David The Good') so I know what I'm writing about...
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Tera Preta is in the river valleys, where those civilizations conducted their agriculture. It isn't in the rainforest, and it isn't sustaining the rainforest. The rainforest handles itself
I love biochar. Started using it about 6 years ago. Started small, now about to do 200 acres this spring. Just be careful not all biochars are created equal.
How do you mean? I’m building a vermiculture composter and biochar reactor now?
@@andrewevans4038 If the flame is not hot enough, there would be a lot of tar residue that not only will block the pores in the chare but also introduce carcinogen into the soil. The recommended temperature is at least 450°C. Also your feed materials may improve the nutrients content, cow dung or pig manure can be mixed before the burning to increase the phosphate content.
I just build a fire about 4ft square.
Let it burn until the flames start to die then i hose the fire until it's put out. I wait an hour then I stir up the ashes and hose it down again.
The next day I sift the charcoal through a screen made of 1/2" rabbit cage wire.
I store the charcoal in metal trash
cans.
I spread about an inch of charcoal over my chicken coop floor and let the chickens scratch it in and poop on it and break it up for a few months.
I shovel off the top two inches and I use it in my container garden
Quick and easy.
This compilation is very helpful. Like your channel as it offers needed ideas for adaptation to current environmental conditions as well as observing better treatment of the planet. Thanks for presenting.
I just tried making some biochar in my pellet stove. It was just a small amount, but it worked. 2 empty bean cans filled of wood pellets pushed together and set it inside the stove. Next time, I'll add more.
Bio char is fantastic. I do think that it's benifits in a sandy porous soil like the Amazon is much different than most agricultural Soils and all clay Soils. Charcoal adsorbs toxic things as well as beneficial nutrients. In a heavy clay soil with a high nutrient holding capacity I think bio char role is less about retaining nutrients and more about the sequestration of toxic substances. Compost and manure based Fertilizer are fantastic sources of nutrients but also contain heavy metals and other undesirable things. Bio char can make these toxic substances less Bio available to our plants and reduce toxins we ingest in the process. Activated charcoal is used in hospitals as a response to counter act poisons and it can be used in a similar manner in composting and regenerative agricultural.
So do you think it's unnecessary to add biochar to clay soil to increase nutrient capacity?
The narrators comments are not entirely correct. The greatest percentage of the Amazon rain forest is largely leached due the high rainfall and the heavy clay soils only anchor the trees with the roots growing up to the leaf debris to extract much needed nutrients. The biochar or as it is called Terra Preta meaning black soil is man made over hundreds if not thousands of years.
Great information. Will give it a try in our farm.
This is mostly a great video but the word that is missing is for people to understand is inoculation.
Simply put, make your biochar by whatever method you choose, break it down, inoculate it with molasses, urea and mix it in to compost for a season and it is ready to use. It’s so easy. I’ve been using this method for 5 years now and have to literally give it away. I have black soil with worms and organic matter in my desert El Paso sand that I started with
Humic acid works also very well for the root system
I'm learning more and more that many issues I'm seeing here in the States with invasive plant species, wildfires, loss of diversity and poor soil, may be because the land is no longer tended to in a manner that the Native American did. I think it is deep in our DNA to want to tend to the land we occupy, but modern farming has made knowledge of how to do it, almost forgotten by most modern people.
i have made a little bit and added to worm bin and some to compost , waiting for results now !!!!
Hi, I noticed you incorrectly labelled a clip from the weedy garden as ‘red gardens’, would be nice to correct this. Red gardens comes later with the earth kiln and wood in the wheelbarrow. Also wish to comment that it could be a little tricky to use info from general sources, as this is how myths are promulgated, better to use some of the excellent research that is available specifically for use in agricultural production. However, you have put together a lovely and easy to follow video, thankyou 😁😁
Can paddy husk ash be used as biochar?
Yes
Bio bar is great but I also love zeolite
I live in the Amazon and most of the soil is terribly nutrient difficient. However wherever the natives applied biochar, Terra preta, those soils remain nutrient rich until today. I make and use biochar myself, such wonderful stuff. I just think it's misleading to say that the amazon region has incredibly rich soil as in general it doesn't. Wherever there is Terra preta the soils are rich and without it it isn't.
All we still need to know is how to distinguish the use of Biochar for use as Soil Amendment or in Carbon Sequestration, with less or no release of Greenhouse gases from the very same Soil
What program did you use to make this video? I like the sources given.
Humans
Inoculation is very important
2:14 It is 'The Weedy Garden' not 'Red Gardens'...
6:22, 6:53 same mistakes - wrong name of source...
It's the same with 'David The Good', those aren't his video frames...
I follow both of them ('The Weedy Garden' and 'David The Good') so I know what I'm writing about...
What is this, a commercial?
I don't think you know what you're talking about.
Nope.