Make your soil more fertile in an organic and sustainable way. ARTi Biochar increases water and nutrient retention while sequestering CO2.
Biochar Session - Using a nearly no cost, flexible, lightweight kiln to make 6 wheelbarrow loads of finished charcoal in the woods.
Simon Webster investigates biochar and reveals Peter Cundall's method for making it for your backyard gardens.
Marjorie Harris BSc, IOIA VO, P.Ag. with many thanks to Zbigniew Wierzbicki of Elderberry Lane Farm for sharing his knowledge and experience Turning Wood into Long Term Soil Fertility Hooray! Biochar has arrived in the new PSL Nov. 25th 2015 edition! Biochar is considered an excellent way t
Biochar Production Technologies Equipment for making biochar can be as simple as a primitive campfire or as complex as a modern bio-refinery. The basic process is called pyrolysis. Pyrolysis is […]
For something that looks like a lump of charcoal, biochar certainly has a great press agent. The subject of books, articles, blog posts, research papers, workshop presentations, conference talks, and various top-ten-ideas-that-will-change-the-world lists. Its potential ability to address a variety of global challenges is indisputably large. So, how exactly do you make this strange material?
This video shows a Rotatable Covered Cavity (RoCC) kiln in action, and explains its place as an affordable, medium-size pyrolyzer. This kiln is used for ma...
Biochar is gaining in gardening popularity, for good reason. It can be difficult to source, but can easily be made as a DIY product.
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Biochar is a type of charcoal, made and used for specific purposes - most often as a soil amendment. To make Biochar, you burn biomass using pyrolysis - a
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The Exeter Charcoal Retort... Alan Waters tries out a more efficient method for making charcoal products. The Exeter Retort is designed to be mobile so it could be shared between a number of woodland enterprises or sites. Notice how little smoke is being produced with the retort up and running.
List of frequently asked questions What is biochar? Biochar is a solid material obtained from the carbonization thermochemical conversion of biomass in an oxygen-limited environments. In more technical terms, biochar […]
A report on some upgrades to the "Tin Man" biochar retort. In my first post on biochar I outlined A design for a biochar kiln. In the post I expressed delight at how well it had performed. However, as I have continued to experiment I have noticed some very definite flaws in the original design…
Activating your biochar with some high nitrogen substance - like urine, manure, or compost - helps it get to work faster in your garden.
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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.
The quest for the perfect backyard biochar kiln. Chapter One: What is Biochar? My working definition for biochar is simply charcoal that has been infused with a combination of nutrients, microbes, and moisture. When added as an amendment to garden soil, biochar's porosity helps the soil hold on to nutrients, and moisture so that they are…
