Aqueous Solutions for SEA

Video from their FaceBook page (https://www.facebook.com/AqueousSolutions/)

Carbo-Fertil project and IBI biochar study tour to Austria June 2018

Beyond the Trough - Thailand

​"Lots of people expressed interest in the post-trough, post-Kontiki, tench solution to making char in the field without water. Here's a really simple, two minute video shot using our original test trench. In a few months when the corn harvest is in, I'll shoot a more real one up in the mountains. For now, this will have to serve. It is not, as you will see, rocket science, and as long as you dig the trench during the rainy season, there's not much work involved."
Dr Micheal Shafer

Check out the "flame cap' tag for other contributions...

Solutions from the Jungle: The Tengkawang Factory

Dirt Rich - the movie

I posted on the trailer back in March but now it is on temporary general public release (until 12Oct).

You can view the film from this link:
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2018/10/06/carbon-sequestration-biochar-for-soil-health.aspx

Their FB page: https://www.facebook.com/DirtRichTheMovie/

Rice growing, biochar trial in Thailand

Gordon Hirst has sent me a link to a Facebook page that is recording a 5-year rice growing field trial in Thailand which includes biochar.
https://www.facebook.com/onetonperrai/

The page needs an introduction to set the scene but if you scroll to the start (3 July 2017), you can review progress via video posts and trial records...

"A field experiment using both a biochar fertilizer/ soil enhancement and SRI (system of rice intensification) to attempt to double the yield of a working farm, from 500 Kg/Rai to 1000 Kg/Rai. The farm is paddy rice farm located in Nakhon Ratchasima province ten Rai (1.6 Ha). The experiment will last for five years"

For all my Bahasa speaking viewers...

Dirt Rich: The Trailer

This looks like a great watch...
click on the blue "Dirt Rich Trailer" to get full screen...

Dirt Rich Trailer from Passelande Pictures on Vimeo.

Willie Smits - Borneo update

Dr Thomas Goreau, a climate and coastal restoration scientist, has been to visit Dr Willie Smits in Borneo. I first covered Willie Smits work way back in 2010 (see WillieSmits label) and have had some positive dialogue since on biochar and related issues. Dr Goreau has come back with warm praise and the following report...

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/biochar/conversations/messages/22963

I've embedded the 2nd YouTube, as it focuses more on biochar production (Adams retort) but the first video is also great... focusing on sugar palm as a sustainable, community based tropical industry.

Biochar & pineapple industry

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/costa-rica-paves-the-way-for-climate-smart-agriculture

Hugh McLaughlin

Hugh McLaughlin does a great job here explaining to soils folk about biochar links between chemistry and biology. One important take is about water.

Hang on for the next youtube by him... more great viewing on "conditioning, charging and inoculating" biochar (...CCI).

The Great Change: Ground Up

The Great Change: Ground Up: " This is where biochar is today in agriculture. Its a better mousetrap in the midst of a huge rodent epidemic and still, most people c...

Biochar's role in the landscape - Hugh McLaughlin

Hugh does a great job here linking chemistry and biology for biochar production and soil application...



If you are interested in biochar test methods, then you should also check out Hugh's expert advice in this video (poor sound quality)...
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/biochar/conversations/messages/21790

Comparing Biochar Burn Methods, ... SkillCult on fire again

Fire Free Alliance and biochar?

There are some interesting carbon threads between the current ideas at FFA and my previous post on Michael Shafer article. Check out the video linked below...

http://www.firefreealliance.org/blog/w27tS5T6Z9PHAtyfv

Philippines Biochar Association in the news

"One alternative livelihood the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is looking at is for miners to take part in the rehabilitation of agricultural lands affected by mining activities through Biochar.
DENR Undersecretary Philip Camara said a lot of the mines that Secretary Gina Lopez ordered closed or suspended involved operations that removed from the ground around 10- to 20-meters- deep of subsoil.
Because of this, he said, the community is left with an environment that can hold very little water.
Biochar, along with other ingredients, can remedy this, he said.
"I’m talking about using 30 tons per hectare. We’d be able to provide a hospitable environment for plants and trees to regrow and to stabilize the area so that further erosion is controlled," he said.
Camara, who also serves as Philippine Biochar Association president, said he estimates that for every 200 hectares of full rehabilitation, a thousand jobs would be created.
But the real reason for rehabilitating the area, he said, is to repurpose it for a "green economy" which becomes "a sustainable, long-term, progressive virtuous cycle development in the area, providing a lot more jobs than what would have come from extracting the subsoil and shipping it."

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Terra Preta - How to make the best Organic Gardening soil on the Planet?

4 per 1000 | Soils for food security and climate

Clearly, the acceptance and successful implementation of 4per1000 will lead to opportunities and valorisation of biochar...

Compost Tea vs E.M. vs Biochar #2 - Starting the Trial - E.M. & C.T. thr...

This is the 2nd in the series. Here's a link to the 1st...
http://sea-biochar.blogspot.my/2016/12/compost-tea-vs-em-vs-biochar-how-to-set.html

Compost Tea vs EM vs Biochar - How to Set up a 64 Bed Garden Trial!