My Biochar Gallery
This is a collection of photo’s showing use and development of Biochar on my property, which is located in Queensland, Australia.
Photo's from my Permaculture food forest where Biochar and other Organic processes like green manure cropping and composting are used to develop top quality high carbon organic soils.
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What to do with Biochar once you have it? I either compost it or add it to strong bio-teas, here are a few photo's of the processes and finished products.
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Backyard development of a clean burning pyrolysis system, I have built and trialled many small scale systems including gasification, retorts and I'm now fine tuning development of a gas ignition batch system.
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Biochar used in other projects apart from the food forest, I have also found some natural Biochar too.
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A collection of photos from my Biochar related travels
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August 7th, 2010 at 6:16 am
I am interested in what your experiences are with biochar in regards to changes in the tilth of the soil. I garden in Northern California where the local soils tend to heavy adobe clays. I’ve noticed that biochar amended soils are much more friable than native soil. While this sounds trivial what it means in practice is that heavy weeds such as acorn sprouts can be easily pulled rather than cut. It also means that water doesn’t puddle on the ground when I am watering and it goes into the root zone quickly instead of running off or evaporating. Of course, that’s just my local soil in my garden. What happens in your soil?