Bio char

Charcoal/Bio-char Production – Utilizing the volatile gasses, reducing pollution and fire risk . Your tireless inventor: Dale Hodgins .

In the realm of sustainable gardening, you’ll quickly find what is old is new again. The techniques of the past, forgotten and rediscovered, are a fount of knowledge and inspiration for the champions of permaculture.

Welcome to low-tech charcoal production. You can make an earthen kiln to produce Bio-Char. Using ground charcoal as a soil amendment is proving to increase yeilds and sequester carbon among long lists of other positive benefits. We should all be adding it to our gardens and compost as the ancient cultures of the Amazon did. In the areas of the rainforest where this was practiced, there are still several feet of topsoil, also known as Terra Preta. Google it if you're interested to learn more…

Activating your biochar with some high nitrogen substance - like urine, manure, or compost - helps it get to work faster in your garden.

Charcoal/Bio-char Production – Utilizing the volatile gasses, reducing pollution and fire risk . Your tireless inventor: Dale Hodgins .

Biochar super charges your potting mix, with a little making a big difference. I personally stock and use Kiwichar Biochar, which is 100% NZ sourced biochar, made from organic, untreated wood. Here's how biochar benefits indoor plants, how to charge and inoculate (or activate) biochar, and how much biochar to use for indoor plants. What are the benefits of biochar for indoor plants? Biochar helps increase both water retention, nutrient retention and drainage to improve soil quality…

How to activate biochar, how to inoculate biochar, why activate biochar and why inoculate biochar.

Convert plant and animal waste into a fine-grained, porous charcoal that helps soils retain nutrients and water.

What is biochar anyway? If you've bought a bag of potting soil or garden soil recently, you may have read the bag and noticed that your soil includes this mysterious "biochar." Biochar is a fine-grained charcoal made from heating biomass, or organic matter, with little to no oxygen. It is found naturally in soils around the world, and it creates a diverse microbial population, improves water retention, and sequesters carbon.

Follow these step-by-step instructions if you make biochar for the first time. Start by making char then add the nutrients and lastly use it on your soil.