Biochar: What is it and is it worth the hype?
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- Опубликовано: 8 мар 2024
- Find out what biochar is and whether it lives up to the hype in this informative video. Learn about its benefits and potential uses for sustainability and regenerative agriculture. Watch now to discover the truth about biochar!
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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 have made a little bit and added to worm bin and some to compost , waiting for results now !!!!
What program did you use to make this video? I like the sources given.
Humans
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?
Nope.
I don't think you know what you're talking about.