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[Loch <lochhoffman@yahoo.com>]

I use the char and ash and minerals in my red clay soil...problem??
Loch Hoffman 

-----Original Message-----
From: "christopher nesbitt" <christopher.nesbitt@mmrfbz.org>
Sent: ‎7/‎5/‎2016 11:15 AM
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Help! Understanding Biochar

No, pulverizing it increases the effectiveness. You are making more
surface, more edge, and more edge means more colonization by soil biota.
Biochar, itself, is empty space. What we are looking for is how to colonize
that space. Earthworms eating biochar, thats what you want.

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Christopher Nesbitt


Maya Mountain Research Farm

San Pedro Columbia, Toledo

PO 153 Punta Gorda Town, Toledo

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Central America


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On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 8:52 AM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 1:12 AM, Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>
> wrote:
>
> > It’s important to generate it as a by product, and not cut down trees or
> > other biomass simply to turn it into biochar. Used in a forest fuel
> > reduction program it makes a lot of sense; you’re already cutting the
> wood,
> > and it goes into the soil as long-lasting carbon.
>
>
> Thanks for making it clear that biochar can be made efficiently and without
> generating pollution with the right equipment.
> Creating it as a byproduct is easily done when using woodstove heat in
> winter. The older heavy duty stoves are ideal for this, Fisher, Virginian
> and Timberline are in that category. If you pack the firebox with wood for
> a long (but not smouldering) overnight burn charcoal will be generated as
> lumps of partially burned firewood settle into the ashes and get covered
> protecting them from high heat. When you clean the stove sift the ashes
> through some kind of screen and put the charcoal into a metal garbage can
> to store until it is used in the garden. Put the ashes around trees.
> Pulverizing the charcoal might be a good idea before application on soil.
> Take a small log as pestle and a 5 gallon metal can as mortar and turn the
> biochar lumps into a powder and granule aggregate. I would be interested in
> knowing if pulverizing the biochar reduces its effectiveness.
>
> LL.
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