[Community_garden] BIOCHAR

Can we discuss the use of biochar in community gardens - http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=nzmpWR6JUZQ Kane Wilkins Strategy Team Sustainable Communities Telephone: 02 4441-2920 Email: strategyt...@sustainablecommunities.com.au Web: www.sustainablecommunities.com.au P Please consider

[Community_garden] Biochar

There is a long article about biochar in the latest edition of Mother Earth News magazine. You can see it online by going to www.motherearthnews.com and putting "biochar" in the search feature. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrub

[Community_garden] biochar

George, My discussion of biochar is limited to gardening and farming. It is bad news for the soil. I am a total believer in recycling and do it. I am not against new things. If it works for recycling waste, I am for it. Ken Hargesheimer -- next part -- An HTML attachme

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ochar then was used for crops. A net gain in energy and a way to use stuff that now goes to landfills. And it was the same australian company in the video. Judy - Original Message - From: "kane" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 3:22 PM Subject: [Community_garden] BIOCH

Re: [Community_garden] BIOCHAR

3:22 PM Subject: [Community_garden] BIOCHAR Can we discuss the use of biochar in community gardens - http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=nzmpWR6JUZQ Kane Wilkins Strategy Team Sustainable Communities Telephone: 02 4441-2920 Email: strategyt...@sustainablecommunit

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arden@list.communitygarden.org Subject: [Community_garden] BIOCHAR Can we discuss the use of biochar in community gardens - http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=nzmpWR6JUZQ Kane Wilkins Strategy Team Sustainable Communities Telephone: 02 4441-2920 Email: strategyt...@sustainablecommunities.com.au

Re: [Community_garden] BIOCHAR

Some months ago a friend forwarded to me info on biochar telling me how wonderful it is. He is not a farmer. My discussion is strictly from a farming/soil point of view. If it is bi-product of gas production, fine, if it is not using crop residue. That must be left on the soil. The biochar peo

Re: [Community_garden] BIOCHAR

Yes, Ken, you are right -- in fact, I think one of the companies linked here made a specific point of saying they didn't want to use farm residues.  Bad example.    Chris Reid --- On Tue, 1/27/09, Ken Hargesheimer wrote: From: Ken Hargesheimer Subject: Re: [Community_garden] BIOCH

Re: [Community_garden] BIOCHAR

Try cover crops, not biochar. Deep plant roots are a far more effective and ecological way to sequester carbon in the soil. Google Plant roots and carbon sequestration to find the 5-page 2006 article pdf by Rajeew Kumar, Sharad Pandey, and Apurv Pandey. They say plant roots transfer sign

Re: [Community_garden] Biochar

Biochar improves the soil compared to what? Chemical farming?Not compared to organic, no-till. If there is a farmer anywhere in the world using biochar, please email me his address. Ken Hargesheimer -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

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y the chemical industry. Judy - Original Message - From: "Ken Hargesheimer" To: "Carolyn Bush" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 8:46 PM Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Biochar Biochar improves the soil compared to what? Chemical farming?Not compared to or

[Community_garden] biochar discussion groups

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/biochar/ http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?sid=227f7c08f50f196aec0f6e30dcc 25d98 &gid=46558387390 Thanks Kate for your input.wonder why Cowboy c

[Community_garden] Biochar on and on

"Organic, no-till gardening and farming does not require buying anything, from anybody, at anytime, for anything. Ken Hargesheimer" I agree Ken, and that's why I am looking into ways making my own biochar from stuff that is free.  Some of my VERY GREEN friends already do. My friend Lisa is a tr

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Hi, Folks! Kate wrote: <> Ah-HA! I've been following this discussion and while I wouldn't put the effort into MAKING biochar (since I have no need for "heat on farm" -- if I was processing stuff, I would probably feel differently) and heaven forbid, I would never PAY for it (the advantage of u

[Community_garden] Biochar Presentation to UN in November 2008

Here is a link to a pdf presentation I found online. That presentation was made to United Nations in November of 2008. It is visual and simple. At least it made the concept easier for me to understand. http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/csd/csd16/PF/presentations/sids2.pdf I am a member of an eco l

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Another interesting document.  Thank you Kate. Judy - Original Message - From: "Kate Kiefling" To: "community garden" Cc: ecology...@meetup.com Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 9:15:29 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [Community_garden] Biochar P

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Organic, no-till gardening and farming does not require buying anything, from anybody, at anytime, for anything. Ken Hargesheimer I found a company online that sells biochar for $35/2lb bucket. Now, I also found an online note that states the author uses Cowboy brand wood charcoal for biochar,