Biochar Inoculation with Dan Hettinger

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The fact that the Red Wriggler worms are at the top of the worm bin material, and not deeper down in the material, is not indicative of a problem. Red Wrigglers congregate and feed near the top of the soil. Nightcrawlers and many other species of earthworms burrow and live deeper in the soil (and, thus, are better for soil aeration than are Red Wrigglers).

The microbes clumping together is called flocculation. It’s a good thing! It helps them survive changing environment better than a single cell.

Thank you very much! That's a bunch of great information right there. I already dug your biochar workshop videos.

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Thank you. Was trying to understand why you need to have the bubbling going on and this made is clear.

I'm skeptical about the way I see biochar being applied. The idea for biochar is twofold. One is that is helps the microbiome of the soil, but the other is it's REGENERATIVE. But throwing biochar on top of the soil, to where carbon can still leech out to me is not regenerative. Adding biochar needs to be done along with soil preparation before plants are ever planted, to get the biochar mixed down in the top 12" or further for deep rooting perennials. One driver for biochar is what farmers did in S. America in the Amazon, but those farmers dug deep trenches and it was a combo of biochar and organic debris falling into the trenches and then buried.

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Thank you for sharing! This video answered so many of my questions.

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Excellent! Valuable information. Learned some new things. Thank you🌞

Excellent! Thank-you! From Littlehampton in England

So how long do you soak the biochar in the compost tea??

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David the good did an experiment adding just biochar to bad dead soil and got good result with his first crop ... got great taste and fast... he grew turnips and radish... radish had best flavor in biochar out of all the amendments he tried... of course it needs to be replicated... and tried with a multitude of crops

thats great,...thanks for sharing all this knowledge, I appreciate

I add charged biochar to my hugelkultur beds and my weed plants love it! Thanks for the info!

Thank you for sharing your knowledge

The Johnson Su Bioreactor as a design for making compost, looks very promising. Well worth a look, if you haven't come across it already. Good work Dan, lots of good information here!