Everyone these days is like "my chicken don't eat chicken feed unless I make it myself from organic stuff growing in my garden during the full moon", meanwhile my man gives them papa johns crust haha, I love it!
Very cool, I love redundancy in topics. I'm only able to truly remember so much at a time, so the repetition is helpful in filling the holes in my knowledge base. As always, thank you so much for documenting your journey and sharing it with others, it's truly inspiring and greatly appreciated!! 👍
We still have about 4 feet of snow on our homestead, but I’m super excited to mix up a spring batch of compost with bio char and the muck from our chicken coops. We’ve got a pretty good heap of nitrogen rich material, and I built a TLUD charcoal furnace last fall that I haven’t been able to use yet. Your video has me super excited about the snow melting off so I can try it out! Great video! Keep up the great work!
Thx for the video man. Holy crap you wouldn't believe how nervous I am. Its my very first year relying on my compost as fertilizer. All winter I was super confident in my homemade compost, but now that the time has come, I lost all confidence llol. I keep thinking ''What if my compost doesn't work and I lose an entire season''. Its nerve racking really.
For sure! Just remember that as long as you are doing the right things, the longterm soil health is building. I always say, don't worry about this year's plants, worry about next year's soil. Obviously that's easier when it's a hobby and not a job, but its a good general mindset to have.
If it's fully composted it will work. Any home-made compost will add 'at least some' of the nutrients to your soil, even if you don't have chickens (as I don't, just too many local predators) and don't do much biochar (I have to think of my neighbours, most of whom are at home retired, 3 still ailing from Long Covid, and all living downwind from me). But despite the fact I compost the quiet way by: filling sacks with leaves and leaving it; filling sacks with moss and leaving it; filling sacks with ferns and leaving it, piling long, dead, hand-picked grass and leaving it; piling twigs and leaving it, piling weeds and leaving it - the whole lot 'still' comes out better than cheap bagged composts. With vegetable kitchen scraps, I don't even bother to compost those any more. After years of having trouble getting courgettes to produce a decent crop of fruits (always, always flowers), I found out about someone who fills a bucket with raw kitchen scraps, plonks a potted courgette on top, and the plant takes the goodness straight from the rotting vegetable matter. When the level of rotting scraps goes down, she simply adds more scraps. Easy...maybe too easy, I thought at first - and resisted. Kept watching her do this in her garden to her courgettes, squashes and pumpkins every time she posted a video - still convinced it wouldn't work. Then exasperated with failing courgettes right at the end of last summer, I tried it. The plants recovered within 'days' and I got the first fruits to develop since leaving Norfolk 20 years ago (where courgettes would fruit so freely we were sick of them). So, you see. You really can't go far wrong with compost-making. In fact, I think it might actually be harder to make compost fail than it is to make it work. I'm currently starting to grow peas, sweet peas, Ocas and courgettes in compost made purely from grass that's been left to grow long for the entire summer season (no mowers here, thank you). In Autumn/Winter, when the grass is dead and yellow, it's pulled/cut by hand from around trees and shrubs, piled in various heaps around the garden, left to compost undisturbed for years, then dug out, sieved, and bagged for use. And my seedlings/Oca tubers are all growing nice and strong and green. No problems, just the occasional grass seedlings, all easily removed. Believe me, if your compost is brown, crumbly, light, airy and doesn't stink like a dead badger, it'll be just fine in pots, as top dressing on borders and containers, as a soil builder, soil conditioner and as a mulch. You can build up confidence in making biochar as you go along, but your compost is not a guaranteed fail if you haven't made the perfect batch of biochar quite yet. Nor is your compost a fail if you haven't got room for chickens, have too many predators, or there are local rules prohibiting you from keeping them. Maybe your littl'uns would like a pet rabbit, even better - guinea pigs - instead of chickens. These animals are basically fertiliser pellet producers. I used to have anything up to 6 guinea pigs running about my old garden (which was tiny), and they kept the lawn down free of charge. I used to clean their hutches, throw the waste into the bottom of an open trench in the vegetable patch, when half full would cover it up with soil, dig another trench and start filling in that - and over a period of 5 years, the soil grew rich, dark, high in fertility and totally scrumptious.
Relax. There's no need or reason to rely ONLY on compost. Unless you have acres on which to grow materials specifically for composting, it's almost impossible to make ALL the compost you'd need for a good sized garden anyway. One study found that you need three to five times as much square footage of growing space for composting material to provide enough for one square foot of veg garden, and it's extremely unlikely that any family really has enough food scraps to make a huge amount. When you see some rather famous gurus who run large operations exclusively with compost, what they're seldom telling you is that they're bringing most of it in by the literal semi-load from somewhere else. The folks who make huge amounts of compost with chickens are picking up truckloads of food waste from restaurants every week, and have dozens of chickens, not just a "family size flock". That's not an entirely bad thing (other than considering the fuel cost and pollution involved with all that driving back and forth) but it can be a little misleading if you're not really paying attention to how they get so much. Providing fertility is a lot simpler than many people assume. Comfrey, grass clipping and other plant teas are easy, free, and require *very* little labor. And you're literally pissing away a helluva lot of fertility every single day. ;)
I copied your biochar making barrel. Works amazing! Also added my 100ish pounds biochar to my chicken run last winter so they could inoculate it for me. It's now on the garden. ;-)
I've never used a pizza box as an egg collector, and here I thought I've used everything under the sun! Thanks for all the great information as always.
Awesome video! We are just starting our compost pile. We are tired of spending money on dirt for our raised beds. We have chickens and throw all our food scraps to them and have filled their run with straw and wood chips, after it stops snowing we will clean out the run and make a large compost pile with everything in it. After watching this I guess I’ll also make a kiln of some kind to make charcoal to add to it. I love how simple your charcoal barrel is!
I’d never heard about the oily residue test of done charcoal! Thanks for sharing that. I’m going to make my first biochar this year for my veggie garden.
My plot too small and I live in a town chickens not allowed unless you have a certain amount of land I watch because I still like learning Never know what the future holds lol
What if you added the char to the chickens’ deep bedding? Then it would be inoculating(?) the whole time they’re using it-would that make your composting process any faster? I’ve seen a little about Chris Trump’s deep bedding for pigs, and it seems like the chickens would be similar. Maybe keep the chickens smelling sweeter, too.😉
I have been clearing land so I build a big fire with branches and put it out with buckets of water from the pond. I have piles of biochar all around. I just cleaned out the chicken coops so time to mix and spread.
Unfortunately I don't own the property where I live, so making biochar requires a LOT of negotiating. I have managed to negotiate a compost bin (Daleks style) and have vermiculture compost bin, so I do get compost. Owner absolutely abhors rats, so it took some long time to get the bin outside set up. 🙄 I would like to find some place to make the biochar but, city bylaws, etc. 😑 Trying to get things to grow on "soils" full of rocks has me about to build a sieve and get a pile of rock for "aesthetics" around the garden pots.
People say that the drum method yields better biochar or less smoke, though to me it's that you don't lose the water when quenching, nonetheless I use the trench method because I don't have any unneeded drums and I need to make a lot more biochar at once. The trench is also larger than your drum so that I can put larger branches (less work not having to break twigs).
It also produces a yield about 1/10 as much char. I've tried it and have always been disappointed, so I use this method now. When I'm doing my batch, I'm constantly crushing it as I go. I put in easily 10x as much wood as I can cram into the first barrel load. The barrel method also has a higher proportion of heat-only wood used in the perimeter of the two barrels. Almost 10-20% of the batch is not chared, it's just combusted for heat. With my method, all I use for heat wood is a little birch bark to get it started, and the whole batch is chared. That being said, 10 different people would have 10 different opinions, and as long as someone is doing it, I certainly wouldn't nitpick. I'm just happy they are doing it. ❤️
WHOA!!! your using MAPLE leaves for the chicken coop!! Your a true canadian!!! ☺I LOVE IT!!! WOW!! My daughter and Husband have celiac and if wheat straw is used they get really sick when they have to clean it out - so what a good idea. How do you keep them crispy fresh?
I'm not sure if I know what I'm talking about but I was thinking that if you put the hot charcoal out with water loaded with biology the heat will kill any life in the water, maybe a better idea to quench the coals with regular water then let drain and then introduce the special water, again I'm not sure if that even makes sense
I love the topic and you are one of my YT favorites. I'm wondering if you can clarify what you meant when you were talking about percentages of biochar you add to the soil. Were you talking about the percentage of the mixture you're adding or the percentage of the soil after you add biochar. I think you meant the former. I'm wondering too about the amount of water you're adding. Is your goal with that biochar to add a source of slow release water or slow release nutrients? I've always heard in other videos that if you're just trying to quench the fire and stop the formation of ash, you add about 10% by volume water. So in a 55 gallon barrel of biochar, you'd add about gallons of water and let steam quench the burning process. Preferably with a lid so you trap the steam more. The steam also helps to crack the oily residue better than liquid water. I think living web farms had a pretty extensive presentation on it. If you fill the storage capacity of the biochar with water, it won't be able to absorb biology from the maure/compost/whatever nearly as well. I assume you're mainly going for water water storage in your soil but thought I'd ask. Thanks for all your awesome videos! Keep em coming.
For percentages, I mean, after your soils are amended, how much % of it is biochar. Ideal target is about 10-20% roughly. For the water, I've used less before and I woke up to an entire batch of ash. It's mostly to quench, but soaking it full of water then adding it to the compost pile, it's like adding a bunch of organic sponges. It's amazing. All that water will get used up, but it won't drown anything. Think of being inside a tank of water, or being inside a room surrounded by sponges that are saturated. You can still breathe no problem in the sponge room, but would drown in the water room. Same thing for your compost. It will still be able to absorb nutrient very easily. That water won't last that long, and there's so much surface area, it's no problem. Also, a lot of nutrients in a compost pile are water soluble, and will become a solute in the biochar, and then bind to it very easily.
Nice! I will try making my own biochar this year. I have a young food forest and I want to put biochar in my soil. Can I just put it to the surface (whit compost and recover it whit mulch) or I have to dig it in my soil? I'm afraid about braking tree roots! Thank you, I really appreciate your channel! :D
I did for a bit. I always liked big numbers though, so I was an arcane mage by heart. Loved stacking up AB on people in BGs then turning and just 1 shotting someone. This was mostly during Sunwell when that was just insanely overpowered.
Hellz yea! Well I really appreciate your channel been following awhile this is my life-long dream I'm in Maine US so I take notes of plants it's a similar zone I started playing again when my health got worse a few years ago, I was born exposed to war chemicals and fully disabled at 27 its pretty bad but been working towards a program to get a little piece of land in the mountains, to grow, build soil & security, restore my body, and do snow dog rescue Thanks to you I know that whatever I can afford will turn into paradise; must be the Intel buff helping me lol or the way you explain stuff so I can understand Congrats on channel growth 🍀🥳 you deserve it and many more to come
Keith - I'm surprised if you're compost doesn't heat up right away. I live near Toronto and half-filled my backyard bin on the weekend, it is chugging along nicely at 46-48C without the benefit of manure.
Interesting because I also find that 20% biochar is the ideal golden mean (2 feet deep) which is ~ 2 wheelbarrows per sq meter. Usually people say that 5-10% is the best, which I disagree with, but agree that it's much better than no biochar.
If you feed your chickens cheap tractor supple layer pellet or other cheap layer pellets this is possibly the issue you had with almost no eggs. When the feed is changed the egg production returns.
@@yahushaschild2265 same here. Texas and tractor supply feed. I believe I saw on a video people were having it tested to see if the protein count was what the label stated.
I did LOL. I lost some good footage too, because my camera was pointing up at the sky for about 30 mins before I noticed! My camera has taken a beating, that's for sure. I'm so hard on everything and it drives my wife nuts. My shoes, gloves, sports equipment, I wear through stuff like nobody else.
I do different style videos because many people LOVE these style. If you what knowledge like drinking out of a firehose, check out my soil microbiology guide. Most of my videos are more like that. I try to make something for everyone.
Did you know someone made an informal poll on a right-wing website asking what their favorite pizza was? It was overwhelmingly Papa John's. I never really liked it myself. I like to joke that it's cuz it tastes like hate.
@@janetnorris2255 saying rude without context is rude. Please explain what you found rude. Is it the fact that I talked about something that you like which makes it feel like a personal attack? Or is it just as shallow as you like a thing and I don't know so that automatically makes me bad? Or maybe, just maybe, you're aware that Papa John's tastes like hate which is why you enjoy it and me saying the obvious is what you're considering rude. Actually based on your only other post on this channel, it's probably the last one. But that's the reason why we provide context don't we?
@@PaleGhost69 I'm with you. I wouldn't buy Papa John's if it was the very finest pizza on earth. Because the company is owned/run by awful people who treat their employees like garbage. (and no, it does not change anything that a famous former sports star bought into the company and makes commercials for them to improve their image and profit from their nonsense. Shame on him.)
LOL, that's very interesting. I will also admit that I didn't know about the ownership group of the chain. We don't really buy or support it, my kids just happened to get a job there. For what it's worth, the franchise owner of their particular store is a delightful older lady and treats my kids fantastically. In fact, my oldest son as made manager because he's her most trustworthy employee. That restaurant gets really nasty people ordering food. Placing giants orders then just not paying. Literally every shift there is someone that orders and doesn't pay, and a pizza that gets thrown out. I told my sons to take old pizzas home so we can feed them to the chickens, to which the owner agreed. I know a lot of owners would not allow that, because they would fear employees taking advantage and "oopsie" making a mistake on a pizza "well I need to eat it myself bow I suppose". So I am definitely grateful that she allows the boys to take home mistake pizzas, or unpaid ones, instead of them ending up in a dumpster. That kind of thing is a problem everywhere. So much food waste. At least we turn this food waste into healthy eggs.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy sorry about the above comment. It was supposed to be a joke about providing context but then I looked at her post history... It turned out it wasn't a joke
I actually got a laugh out of your comment, but then again I'm not as sensitive about politics as many (even though I am passionate about them). Although, most of what people consider politics isn't politics, it's politicking. Politics is just how humans organize society, which is where my passions are. Left wing vs right wing, that's just politicking. Anyways, I got a laugh out of it. Just as much as I get a laugh at people poking fun of extreme leftists (even though I'm a pretty extreme leftist, on the social scale, that I believe billionaires shouldn't exist, that workers should have the means of production, and that anything outside of that is theft of labour by the owner class). If someone wants to poke fun at me for that, I just laugh along with them. Life is too short to get upset about it.
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Everyone these days is like "my chicken don't eat chicken feed unless I make it myself from organic stuff growing in my garden during the full moon", meanwhile my man gives them papa johns crust haha, I love it!
LOL they eat everything.
😂 yeah
I supplement with pinto beans and rice. They love it.
Very cool, I love redundancy in topics. I'm only able to truly remember so much at a time, so the repetition is helpful in filling the holes in my knowledge base.
As always, thank you so much for documenting your journey and sharing it with others, it's truly inspiring and greatly appreciated!! 👍
Cheers 🍻
We still have about 4 feet of snow on our homestead, but I’m super excited to mix up a spring batch of compost with bio char and the muck from our chicken coops. We’ve got a pretty good heap of nitrogen rich material, and I built a TLUD charcoal furnace last fall that I haven’t been able to use yet. Your video has me super excited about the snow melting off so I can try it out! Great video! Keep up the great work!
Good luck 👍
Didn't anyone tell you not to put all your eggs in one Pizza box?
You honestly make my day so often. LOL
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thanks.That really means a lot
Thx for the video man.
Holy crap you wouldn't believe how nervous I am. Its my very first year relying on my compost as fertilizer. All winter I was super confident in my homemade compost, but now that the time has come, I lost all confidence llol. I keep thinking ''What if my compost doesn't work and I lose an entire season''. Its nerve racking really.
For sure! Just remember that as long as you are doing the right things, the longterm soil health is building. I always say, don't worry about this year's plants, worry about next year's soil.
Obviously that's easier when it's a hobby and not a job, but its a good general mindset to have.
Good luck, rooting for you 🌱
Thank you both ! Can't wait to just get started and realize everything is fine.
If it's fully composted it will work.
Any home-made compost will add 'at least some' of the nutrients to your soil, even if you don't have chickens (as I don't, just too many local predators) and don't do much biochar (I have to think of my neighbours, most of whom are at home retired, 3 still ailing from Long Covid, and all living downwind from me).
But despite the fact I compost the quiet way by: filling sacks with leaves and leaving it; filling sacks with moss and leaving it; filling sacks with ferns and leaving it, piling long, dead, hand-picked grass and leaving it; piling twigs and leaving it, piling weeds and leaving it - the whole lot 'still' comes out better than cheap bagged composts.
With vegetable kitchen scraps, I don't even bother to compost those any more.
After years of having trouble getting courgettes to produce a decent crop of fruits (always, always flowers), I found out about someone who fills a bucket with raw kitchen scraps, plonks a potted courgette on top, and the plant takes the goodness straight from the rotting vegetable matter. When the level of rotting scraps goes down, she simply adds more scraps.
Easy...maybe too easy, I thought at first - and resisted.
Kept watching her do this in her garden to her courgettes, squashes and pumpkins every time she posted a video - still convinced it wouldn't work.
Then exasperated with failing courgettes right at the end of last summer, I tried it.
The plants recovered within 'days' and I got the first fruits to develop since leaving Norfolk 20 years ago (where courgettes would fruit so freely we were sick of them).
So, you see. You really can't go far wrong with compost-making. In fact, I think it might actually be harder to make compost fail than it is to make it work.
I'm currently starting to grow peas, sweet peas, Ocas and courgettes in compost made purely from grass that's been left to grow long for the entire summer season (no mowers here, thank you).
In Autumn/Winter, when the grass is dead and yellow, it's pulled/cut by hand from around trees and shrubs, piled in various heaps around the garden, left to compost undisturbed for years, then dug out, sieved, and bagged for use.
And my seedlings/Oca tubers are all growing nice and strong and green. No problems, just the occasional grass seedlings, all easily removed.
Believe me, if your compost is brown, crumbly, light, airy and doesn't stink like a dead badger, it'll be just fine in pots, as top dressing on borders and containers, as a soil builder, soil conditioner and as a mulch.
You can build up confidence in making biochar as you go along, but your compost is not a guaranteed fail if you haven't made the perfect batch of biochar quite yet.
Nor is your compost a fail if you haven't got room for chickens, have too many predators, or there are local rules prohibiting you from keeping them.
Maybe your littl'uns would like a pet rabbit, even better - guinea pigs - instead of chickens.
These animals are basically fertiliser pellet producers.
I used to have anything up to 6 guinea pigs running about my old garden (which was tiny), and they kept the lawn down free of charge. I used to clean their hutches, throw the waste into the bottom of an open trench in the vegetable patch, when half full would cover it up with soil, dig another trench and start filling in that - and over a period of 5 years, the soil grew rich, dark, high in fertility and totally scrumptious.
Relax. There's no need or reason to rely ONLY on compost. Unless you have acres on which to grow materials specifically for composting, it's almost impossible to make ALL the compost you'd need for a good sized garden anyway. One study found that you need three to five times as much square footage of growing space for composting material to provide enough for one square foot of veg garden, and it's extremely unlikely that any family really has enough food scraps to make a huge amount.
When you see some rather famous gurus who run large operations exclusively with compost, what they're seldom telling you is that they're bringing most of it in by the literal semi-load from somewhere else.
The folks who make huge amounts of compost with chickens are picking up truckloads of food waste from restaurants every week, and have dozens of chickens, not just a "family size flock". That's not an entirely bad thing (other than considering the fuel cost and pollution involved with all that driving back and forth) but it can be a little misleading if you're not really paying attention to how they get so much.
Providing fertility is a lot simpler than many people assume. Comfrey, grass clipping and other plant teas are easy, free, and require *very* little labor. And you're literally pissing away a helluva lot of fertility every single day. ;)
I copied your biochar making barrel. Works amazing! Also added my 100ish pounds biochar to my chicken run last winter so they could inoculate it for me. It's now on the garden. ;-)
Awesome 👌
I've never used a pizza box as an egg collector, and here I thought I've used everything under the sun! Thanks for all the great information as always.
I use whatever is in my hands at the time 😆
Awesome video! We are just starting our compost pile. We are tired of spending money on dirt for our raised beds. We have chickens and throw all our food scraps to them and have filled their run with straw and wood chips, after it stops snowing we will clean out the run and make a large compost pile with everything in it. After watching this I guess I’ll also make a kiln of some kind to make charcoal to add to it. I love how simple your charcoal barrel is!
There’s so many “burner” styles, but this is my favourite style! You hit all the bases! Good job my friend!
Thank you! Cheers!
I’d never heard about the oily residue test of done charcoal! Thanks for sharing that. I’m going to make my first biochar this year for my veggie garden.
Great video. I am so interested in trying this this year. Thank you for explaining things clearly. 🇨🇦🐝
Good luck 👍
My plot too small and I live in a town chickens not allowed unless you have a certain amount of land
I watch because I still like learning
Never know what the future holds lol
Legend has it that summer squash thrives in still decomposing compost. Oh, look, some posters have heard the legend, too :)
What if you added the char to the chickens’ deep bedding? Then it would be inoculating(?) the whole time they’re using it-would that make your composting process any faster? I’ve seen a little about Chris Trump’s deep bedding for pigs, and it seems like the chickens would be similar. Maybe keep the chickens smelling sweeter, too.😉
Yes indeed, we also do that, and it's a great way to innoculate it.
Thanks for the video and the meta analysis list!
I have been clearing land so I build a big fire with branches and put it out with buckets of water from the pond. I have piles of biochar all around. I just cleaned out the chicken coops so time to mix and spread.
Unfortunately I don't own the property where I live, so making biochar requires a LOT of negotiating.
I have managed to negotiate a compost bin (Daleks style) and have vermiculture compost bin, so I do get compost.
Owner absolutely abhors rats, so it took some long time to get the bin outside set up. 🙄
I would like to find some place to make the biochar but, city bylaws, etc. 😑
Trying to get things to grow on "soils" full of rocks has me about to build a sieve and get a pile of rock for "aesthetics" around the garden pots.
People say that the drum method yields better biochar or less smoke, though to me it's that you don't lose the water when quenching, nonetheless I use the trench method because I don't have any unneeded drums and I need to make a lot more biochar at once. The trench is also larger than your drum so that I can put larger branches (less work not having to break twigs).
It also produces a yield about 1/10 as much char. I've tried it and have always been disappointed, so I use this method now.
When I'm doing my batch, I'm constantly crushing it as I go. I put in easily 10x as much wood as I can cram into the first barrel load.
The barrel method also has a higher proportion of heat-only wood used in the perimeter of the two barrels. Almost 10-20% of the batch is not chared, it's just combusted for heat. With my method, all I use for heat wood is a little birch bark to get it started, and the whole batch is chared.
That being said, 10 different people would have 10 different opinions, and as long as someone is doing it, I certainly wouldn't nitpick. I'm just happy they are doing it. ❤️
10 people would have 11 opinions - there’s always a schizophrenic in the crowd
Love chicken tv!!!
WHOA!!! your using MAPLE leaves for the chicken coop!! Your a true canadian!!! ☺I LOVE IT!!! WOW!! My daughter and Husband have celiac and if wheat straw is used they get really sick when they have to clean it out - so what a good idea. How do you keep them crispy fresh?
I enjoyed the video and love the concept. I guess I’m a little slow because I could use a slow walk thru of the biochar making process.
I will make a biochar playlist
I'm not sure if I know what I'm talking about but I was thinking that if you put the hot charcoal out with water loaded with biology the heat will kill any life in the water, maybe a better idea to quench the coals with regular water then let drain and then introduce the special water, again I'm not sure if that even makes sense
That's called the egg song!
I love it!
I love the topic and you are one of my YT favorites. I'm wondering if you can clarify what you meant when you were talking about percentages of biochar you add to the soil. Were you talking about the percentage of the mixture you're adding or the percentage of the soil after you add biochar. I think you meant the former. I'm wondering too about the amount of water you're adding. Is your goal with that biochar to add a source of slow release water or slow release nutrients? I've always heard in other videos that if you're just trying to quench the fire and stop the formation of ash, you add about 10% by volume water. So in a 55 gallon barrel of biochar, you'd add about gallons of water and let steam quench the burning process. Preferably with a lid so you trap the steam more. The steam also helps to crack the oily residue better than liquid water. I think living web farms had a pretty extensive presentation on it. If you fill the storage capacity of the biochar with water, it won't be able to absorb biology from the maure/compost/whatever nearly as well. I assume you're mainly going for water water storage in your soil but thought I'd ask. Thanks for all your awesome videos! Keep em coming.
For percentages, I mean, after your soils are amended, how much % of it is biochar. Ideal target is about 10-20% roughly.
For the water, I've used less before and I woke up to an entire batch of ash. It's mostly to quench, but soaking it full of water then adding it to the compost pile, it's like adding a bunch of organic sponges. It's amazing. All that water will get used up, but it won't drown anything. Think of being inside a tank of water, or being inside a room surrounded by sponges that are saturated. You can still breathe no problem in the sponge room, but would drown in the water room. Same thing for your compost.
It will still be able to absorb nutrient very easily. That water won't last that long, and there's so much surface area, it's no problem. Also, a lot of nutrients in a compost pile are water soluble, and will become a solute in the biochar, and then bind to it very easily.
Nice!
I will try making my own biochar this year.
I have a young food forest and I want to put biochar in my soil.
Can I just put it to the surface (whit compost and recover it whit mulch) or I have to dig it in my soil? I'm afraid about braking tree roots! Thank you, I really appreciate your channel! :D
This is better than the Christmas log video! Lol
I know, right! I should film a batch of biochar ajd put Christmas music to it LOL
Amazing 🌄🌿☀️🌸🔥🌊
have to ask did you play resto druid? hehe
I did for a bit. I always liked big numbers though, so I was an arcane mage by heart. Loved stacking up AB on people in BGs then turning and just 1 shotting someone. This was mostly during Sunwell when that was just insanely overpowered.
Hellz yea! Well I really appreciate your channel been following awhile this is my life-long dream
I'm in Maine US so I take notes of plants it's a similar zone
I started playing again when my health got worse a few years ago, I was born exposed to war chemicals and fully disabled at 27 its pretty bad but been working towards a program to get a little piece of land in the mountains, to grow, build soil & security, restore my body, and do snow dog rescue
Thanks to you I know that whatever I can afford will turn into paradise; must be the Intel buff helping me lol or the way you explain stuff so I can understand
Congrats on channel growth 🍀🥳 you deserve it and many more to come
Keith - I'm surprised if you're compost doesn't heat up right away. I live near Toronto and half-filled my backyard bin on the weekend, it is chugging along nicely at 46-48C without the benefit of manure.
I pushed a meat thermometer into it yesterday because we hit 20C outside! It was at 65C (150F). Definitely heating up!
Interesting because I also find that 20% biochar is the ideal golden mean (2 feet deep) which is ~ 2 wheelbarrows per sq meter. Usually people say that 5-10% is the best, which I disagree with, but agree that it's much better than no biochar.
If you feed your chickens cheap tractor supple layer pellet or other cheap layer pellets this is possibly the issue you had with almost no eggs. When the feed is changed the egg production returns.
Oh, we had incredible eggs. Nearly 5-8 per day all winter long (10 chickens).
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy our egg production dropped to 0-1 a day with 21 hens.
We are in South Texas and fed Tractor Supply feed.
@@yahushaschild2265 same here. Texas and tractor supply feed.
I believe I saw on a video people were having it tested to see if the protein count was what the label stated.
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How Wildfire enriches soil
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I thought you were going to knock over your camera. Glad you didn't
I did LOL. I lost some good footage too, because my camera was pointing up at the sky for about 30 mins before I noticed! My camera has taken a beating, that's for sure. I'm so hard on everything and it drives my wife nuts. My shoes, gloves, sports equipment, I wear through stuff like nobody else.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy that's too bad. Good thing it's not broken
You’ve been tough on things since you were a kid. Couldn’t believe how many pants you destroyed at the knees.
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Well done you did give the girls a bigger pace.....Great job but beware pizza /wheat products can give chickens yeast problems in their gut
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The first video I have seen of yours. 4 minutes until any commentary? I almost stopped watching.
The Valuable info starts after 9 minutes in.
I do different style videos because many people LOVE these style. If you what knowledge like drinking out of a firehose, check out my soil microbiology guide. Most of my videos are more like that.
I try to make something for everyone.
At 9:20 looks as though your arm is on fire!
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Did you know someone made an informal poll on a right-wing website asking what their favorite pizza was? It was overwhelmingly Papa John's. I never really liked it myself. I like to joke that it's cuz it tastes like hate.
@@janetnorris2255 saying rude without context is rude. Please explain what you found rude. Is it the fact that I talked about something that you like which makes it feel like a personal attack? Or is it just as shallow as you like a thing and I don't know so that automatically makes me bad? Or maybe, just maybe, you're aware that Papa John's tastes like hate which is why you enjoy it and me saying the obvious is what you're considering rude.
Actually based on your only other post on this channel, it's probably the last one. But that's the reason why we provide context don't we?
@@PaleGhost69 I'm with you. I wouldn't buy Papa John's if it was the very finest pizza on earth. Because the company is owned/run by awful people who treat their employees like garbage.
(and no, it does not change anything that a famous former sports star bought into the company and makes commercials for them to improve their image and profit from their nonsense. Shame on him.)
LOL, that's very interesting. I will also admit that I didn't know about the ownership group of the chain. We don't really buy or support it, my kids just happened to get a job there. For what it's worth, the franchise owner of their particular store is a delightful older lady and treats my kids fantastically. In fact, my oldest son as made manager because he's her most trustworthy employee.
That restaurant gets really nasty people ordering food. Placing giants orders then just not paying. Literally every shift there is someone that orders and doesn't pay, and a pizza that gets thrown out. I told my sons to take old pizzas home so we can feed them to the chickens, to which the owner agreed. I know a lot of owners would not allow that, because they would fear employees taking advantage and "oopsie" making a mistake on a pizza "well I need to eat it myself bow I suppose". So I am definitely grateful that she allows the boys to take home mistake pizzas, or unpaid ones, instead of them ending up in a dumpster.
That kind of thing is a problem everywhere. So much food waste. At least we turn this food waste into healthy eggs.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy sorry about the above comment. It was supposed to be a joke about providing context but then I looked at her post history... It turned out it wasn't a joke
I actually got a laugh out of your comment, but then again I'm not as sensitive about politics as many (even though I am passionate about them). Although, most of what people consider politics isn't politics, it's politicking. Politics is just how humans organize society, which is where my passions are. Left wing vs right wing, that's just politicking.
Anyways, I got a laugh out of it. Just as much as I get a laugh at people poking fun of extreme leftists (even though I'm a pretty extreme leftist, on the social scale, that I believe billionaires shouldn't exist, that workers should have the means of production, and that anything outside of that is theft of labour by the owner class). If someone wants to poke fun at me for that, I just laugh along with them. Life is too short to get upset about it.