I Fed Turnip Soup to my Biochar or The Quest for Terra Preta Begins
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- Obviously, terra preta was carefully crafted by ancient turnip soup chefs. Now with extra kombucha!
Today we are working on making terra preta in a roundabout way.
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Most people: Stinking, disgusting slop!
Gardeners: Most wonderful thing I've ever seen. 😍🤩
TH-cam: Do you want to see a guy pour turnip soup into some black sludge and stir it with a stick?
Me: Is it David the Good?
TH-cam: Yes.
Me: Yes, please.
That's my life rn.
David the good be experimenting like a mad scientist in a good way of course.
If you want ceramics to add to your pile look for some local potters. As a potter myself I can assure you they have loads of misfires, cracked, or broken pieces. Most will just be happy to not put them into the dump. If you were closer to me I would be happy to give you some myself.
Can u grind down and re mold the pot?
@@blaccsilverstaff5484 Slip molding slip cannot be reclaimed in the same way typical clay is reclaimed. Since the addition of defloculants makes the clay particles actually repel each other instead of sticking to each other. Once it is fired and if it wasn't glazed, it could be busted and crushed up and added back to clay as 'grog' which is done, but not easy to do in a small scale studio. So most potters either sell pots as seconds if the defect is small, use the pot to test new glazes, or just pitch them if.
@@udderstuff5554 oh okay
I believe Terra Preta has unfired clay. The purpose being, used as perlite is used in today's soils. I think on a really small scale broken terracotta pots, further smashed into nice sized bits could work for potting soil mixes and small home gardens. Everyone smashes those by accident, and they arent cheap so may as well recycle.
@Ghost Dog Terra preta includes broken clay pots that have been fired. They fired in pits though so the clay would have been similar in vitrification to Terra cotta or bisque stoneware.
I'm rooting for you, David. Also... it is so so weird to see you in a winter coat.
I recently took a class about biochar and I think there are a lot of misconceptions about what to add to the "charging" process and to put some knowledge behind the movements that we are doing in our gardens. The process I learned and currently have charging at the moment is biochar made from Oak branches, once made into Biochar, JMS or JADAM Microbial Solution is added so that the microbes can colonize all the nooks and cranys of the Biochar, and then to also mineralize the Biochar at the same time so it is not leaching your soil you would add sea water or SEA-90 to your JMS + Biochar mix. This would be left to "charge" for 3 months in a barrel and then would be available for use.
I'm sitting in the shade of a fig tree, been burning a 6x8 pit, 18" deep, and have a 36" tin wall at about 8'x8' I've about filled it up in 4 hrs of burning, then after it's cold I run a construction compactor over it, then cover it with manure, and our kitchen scraps, coop cleanings, and wasted stuff from a food bank, I've got 2 pits on the go at all times, over the summer I clean out the pit, and layer the tree bases. Got soil from Arizona dirt. Plants happy.
I do this same practice to cook down bones collected from productions, after processing and adding compost teas its ready to distribute..... extra and old mothers from kombucha works really well also...... Great demo David!
Terra Preta! Now that's what I am talking about, you discover that and it's like discovering Airships and traveling over the ice wall, or to north pole! It will be marked as a great rediscovery!
That’s so exciting about the elderberry fledglings!
Maybe kombucha could be the key to making you're "Dave's Fetid swamp water" less "fetid."
It's basically adding vinegar. Also, I think he wants it fetid.
@@robinlillian9471 i think the fetidness is more of a price he's willing to pay than a desired goal
Fetidness is a symptom of what is within
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1:16 " Ah that's awesome"
My wife in the other room: What are you watching????
Hahaha!
Lol
You got me making all kinds of homemade delicious yuckiness to feed my garden! Thank you. Been praying for your pal Scott Head @ Black Gumbo, and everyone in Texas who are suffering power outages. Blessings to you and yours. 🙏❤🇺🇸🌴🌻🎵
I'm thinking the pond is the care.. Sink some bucks of bio char in it and drudge some mud up from it, then add the mud and till the beds 1 to 2 inches.. May need to wet it good then cover the beds from the sunlight for a week... Awesome vids 👍
Another great,concise video David! Perfect to watch while taking a break. I'm hoping bio-char can improve my already decent soil. This year is 100 sq. foot trial bed. Only time will tell...
it can regenerate itself, that's so cool! nature just keeps on giving
Kitty litter. Cheap and full of clay. I use the free and clear version of Tidy Cats which is only clay and charcoal. I've been mixing it into my sand and it immediate starts holding onto water. $15 for 35 lb pail. Many uses. I'm also using it to waterseal a decomposed granite patio.
I have used i for the gardens, but I do not think it is fireable.
@@davidthegood I’m a potter. You can fire kitty litter clay. Usually it is bentonite. When you fire it, if it gets hot enough it will start to get bubbly. Prob dont want to go that hot. But if you put it in a flower pot then fire it in a big bonfire or one of your biochar pit fires, you will be golden.
David you mentioned bones what if I burn all my bones in the burn pile because I have a lot of 'em I throw all my bones in the backyard and let the critters do as they wish with them
I got excited when I saw your video. I do something similar. I add my char to my comfrey tea made with lake water. Add comfrey 1/2 way up a 35 gallon trash barrel, add a good 4 - 6 inches of char to the top, and top it off until it is submerged in lake water. Put the lid on and forget about it for about a month or more. Stir occasionally. Smell? Nope, the "char" acts like a charcoal activated filter and keeps away any bad odors. The comfrey / lake water innoculates the char (biochar). And instead of using the liquid as fertilizer on the garden, I add the liquid, biochar, and comfrey to my compost pile. The garden will still get the benefits, and it is much easier to use this way.
I live in town & grow in large containers. I want to make some bio char. I’m thinking the bio char would help prevent nutrients from washing out of the soil from the extra watering I have to do using containers.
I’m using my chicken manure and some rabbit manure I get from a friend at work. I’m rewatching your biochar video tonight so I can try that tomorrow too. I’m thinking about adding half of it to my compost piles and the other half in the barrel. Thanks for sharing all these ideas. I’m planning to take up some leaves from my work tomorrow to add to the chicken pen. I too am afraid of buying hay bales after having such a damaging effect on my gardens in the past.
Watch out for the alfalfa. We added some from cake alfalfa cubes that got wet that the animals wouldn't eat to 2 of our garden beds and turns out it had Grazon residue in it. Evidently the alfalfa we fed our rabbits and goats came from fields sprayed with it. $200 soil test to test for specific herbicides to back track to figure out what was killing/deforming only sections of our garden so we could be sure not to repeat the same mistake. Huge mess.
This soup looks like one of the experimental meals I used to make for my little brother in grade school. Some weren't half bad. The others though..........:P
inoculating Bio-char with turnip soup and kombucha... now that's something I had never heard of...is kombucha bacteria and yeast something that will contribute to healthy soil?
Hey David looking good.
You should look into the johnson-su bioreactor composting system.
Its some really interesting stuff.
David Johnson is very smart and knows a lot about soil biology.
His bioreactor breaks down leaves over a 12 month timeline.
He introduces air into the pile so there is no turning required (thats a bonus) but keeps the pile aerobic.
The pile heats up in the beginning and stays hot for a week or so, then when the pile cools below 80 he introduces red wigglers to the pile.
He mentions the pile needs to stay at 70% moisture so he waters daily with a timer but he also lives in desert land.
It colonizes thousands of different microbes and fungi.
And eventually turns into almost a clay like texture similar to worm castings.
But so much more active with microbes and fungi.
Really interesting stuff.
Great way to compost leaves.
Super rich compost goes a long way.
Just takes time.
I want to build one but my Canadian climate makes it difficult. The pile needs to stay warm (can't freeze).
Kinda hard to stop from happening up here..... Its Cold!!!
Cheers! Happy gardening.
It may smell good, but I'll leave the taste test of turnip-bucha in your capable hands.
Tilling soul breaks up the mycelium. That's like the neural network of the soil.
I’m new to biochar...I’m floored right now. Who thought of this? Talk about efficiency
Do it. I'm charing my trim in small holes along fallow rows in a 50' X 7' raised bed garden. It's magic.
You may be able to find raw clay on your land. If so, you can fire it in your trench fires. Just make certain is if completely dry before putting it in the fire. If there is moisture in the clay still it can blow up and hurt someone. There are lots of videos on finding and processing raw clay. Check them out. As for the animal poo, it looks like it's time for you to get more chickens, goats and perhaps a cow or two. Rabbits grow and multiply fast and their poo is awesome for the garden.
Biochar seems to improve my dense clay in Missouri.
Excellent.
Improved my hardpan/depleted soils in Hawaii as well. Where the biochar was top-dressed, soil is beautiful and can be easily dug or tilled. Literally inches away (where the original hardpan still is) it's almost hard as a rock on dry days
Show me hahahaha
And mine in Indiana. The suburban neighbors do find the cackling and hooting during biochar making fires a bit... alarming... meh, oh well.
My soil makes excellent adobe blocks. Then, for fun, my garden spot is a former horse corral. Bad news: compacted hard, like the adobe block it wants to be. Good news: previous owners never cleaned out the manure and a friend with a mini tractor sorta leveled/stirred the very top layer. Not much but some. First year garden was a disaster. I started putting down layers of straw and horse manure. Second year garden better but not impressive. Continued with horse manure but layered with wood chips/leaves/grass clippings. Also built raised beds with purchased soil on top of the previous layers. Third year garden better but soil needs life. Start working with lactobacillus serum, urine, better compost heap. Decided to try a worm bed but need materials. I check the soil anyway and-glory be to God-my growing beds are crawling with earthworms! I’ve got almost a foot of manure/sticks/chips/leaves/garden soil in those beds and the earthworms are doing all my tilling this year. I’m hoping for a much more fruitful garden this year! It’s always a work in progress but hey-God made the system. I just try to put all the components in place. God makes my garden grow and produce. I’m just the hired help. Biochar is next!
Move that elderberry from the dam side of your pond to the feed side,, the roots over time will compromise the dam and cause it to leak, my neighbors pond has leaked for years but leaked more when the trees died
I'm going to have to build my own soil when I move to the big island, and I want to do the bio char thing.
David the Good got great taste in attire
I love your videos about the bio char and Terra Preta. I live in the city so burning branches is not an option. I had seen a video where someone uses Royal Oak charcoal which is a biochar. It is much cheaper to use and buying bio charge by the pound. I will add worm castings and some compost with water and let it brew for a couple of weeks. Then put it in my garden. I plan to break up the bio char into some smaller pieces. I have a few raised beds that went down about 14 inches and I put in a number of things like branches twigs kitchen scraps, rotted rice straw, mulched leaves, bat guano, etc. I don’t have the bio char ready yet so I plan to go back in the beds and add the biochar, chicken manure, dirt, etc. I will add the kombucha and make a soup. Sounds great. I’m even thinking that I will make some small holes throughout my entire front yard with maybe a small pipe and add a little biochar pulverized small with worm castings fermented with water for a few weeks to the holes and cover. Most of my front yard is already planted with California native and can’t dig down a few feet. It should be interesting to see what happens. I’m thinking maybe I can water even less than now.
I love turnip soup! Lol
Yep, poor soil teaches you a bunch! My uncle says to plant sweet potatoes in the crappiest soil you have. He is some kind of sweet potato guru. His always taste sooo good! I save the ones he sends me to make slips!
I wonder if filling croaker sacks with char and soaking in a particularly fetid, smelly swamp would do a good job innoculating with helpful organisms?
Just a little idea, and I know you have sandy soil, but if you would throw dry clay soil in the biochar trenches during the burns wouldn't it fire and become ceramic?
Could you use a compost tea?
With crushed lump charcoal out of the bag?
Then propagate micorizal fungi in a seperate lump charcoal container.
Then add to the soil?
Add a air bubbler to you brew so it stays alive
May try myself
Yes.
For me to put a six inch layer of bio char on my 20 x 44 garden, I'd need 6 cubic yards of material. In my urban back yard, I can produce a gallon once in a great while.
If I heard you properly David, it would make sense to consider dropping some seed, let animals forage and then lay biochar.... from there the choices are open . I’d personally consider no dig or layering terra preta into a ravine to store for longer periods otherwise developing for new beds and productions...... I agree with your assertions around opportunities with poor or lacking soil..... the opportunities are rewarding !
There is a design for a "top-lit updraft kiln" (TLUD) for making biochar that is essentially a 55 gallon drum with some holes in it. It burns top-down, so the biochar above the flames is shielded by combustion gasses and doesn't burn. If you're super-clever you can hinge the bottom of the drum and hold it in place with a wooden pin that burns when the fire gets to the bottom and dumps the whole load into water to quench automagically. That might be a cheap way to produce biochar in large quantity. There are vids on U toob. Stay warm, bama!
Grow sorghum/Sudan grass for biomass. It’ll work fine.
Excellent!!! Very inspiring! Easy to understand! TY DTG
Time to get some animals of your own David. Now is a really good time to get rabbits n chickens, add some rototillers (piggies), you have plenty of poops to work worth really quick.
as someone who read up on terra preta, my conclusion was that basically an entire society composted everything on their farmland for over a 1000 years. I am not sure though if it led to a "super organism" that was much better at digesting organic waste. though with what we know about bacteria it seems reasonable. imagine if we did that with 9 billion people. but as you said. if you have poor soil. it certainly is fun to experiment.
Sounds about right.
Another great video from the David the permaculture mad scientist
@ David the Good: After reading Carol Deppe's "The Resilient Gardener", I wonder if running ducks between the rows of your syntropic forest system would help increase the fertility while providing your family with eggs. I'm guessing you might have to use some type of fencing to keep them out of the fruit hedge rows which is probably more money than it's worth, but just an idea. She uses Anacona ducks, but I imagine chickens might work just as well. Anyways, just an idea.
Cool train sound effect!
I am very invested in your biochar experiments. Have you considered soaking large amounts of the biochar in your pond there? You could essentially "store" it there and let nature pre-charge it.
That is a good idea.
Ace should sponsor your show
Nice ! Looks like some good plant nutrition to me , organic gardening is not for the squeemish!!
worm castings&molasses for biological ... plus green Nitrogen
That noise Like a porta potty the nite after some spicy chili 😂
I happen to have 2 extra barrels! kombuca and rutabagas.!! I heard we can not even replicate the soil they used for tera preta..?
Yes, I do not believe terra preta has been replicated yet. We shall try!
You stuck it in and had a little intentional accident 🤣🤣🤣. Got to love it.
2:49 looks like a mad scientist 😂
Watching this video eating a big bowl of rice and beans. Living the dream man!
The bugs are going to love it though
Haha. I feed my compost beer and cola.
Looks great, people mostly advice us to use wood from deciduous trees when making biochar. I have loads of spruce I intend to use instead. Do you know why and how much lower in quality such biochar would make?
Conifers often produce more soot & tar, but if that separates from the wood in the chimney of your reducing oven, I think you should still be left with charcoal. The point of biochar is activated charcoal, and some people even try to make it out of biosolids (sewage or manure sludge), though I can't see how this would be economical given the high moisture content. Doesn't have to be trees. Bonechar should be even better given the phosphates.
Thank you Erik, Spruce will definitely produce charcoal but you are right it combusts faster, thus it is probably trickier to control the pyrolysis process giving more ash and soot in the end product. I figured maybe there would also be some differences in the porosity structure effecting the buffering capacity or stability?
@@mandersson6754 I understand different source woods do make a big difference in porosity of end product, and somebody said burning that rotten, punky wood gives the best charcoal for this. Some of the pit burner folks don't worry about the last layer getting pyrolyzed, they just shut down the fire by drowning it once they've built a deep enough pile in the pit. However, if your soil is acidic, as in many areas in the eastern US, adding all the potash (alkaline) might help improve the pH of your soil, so you could just dump it in together with the charcoal. I'm in the alkaline west, so I try not to add much alkaline ash. When we do run the barbecue (using wood lump charcoal), whenever I still have hit leftover hot coals, first I cook my eggshells in coffee cans; when it's cooled, I sift out the charcoal lumps afterward from the ash. I use a little ash for the chickens' sand bath (just a little!) and add the leftover charcoal directly to my compost to work for 3 - 4 months. I'm not sure about soaking it for a long time in anaerobic conditions, as we want our soils to work with aerobic fungi and bacteria.
@@nagasvoice8895 Thanks for sharing. I have acidic soil and usually dump all my open fire leftovers directly into my garden. Someone told me though that ash will turn nitrogen into ammonia so it will be difficult to charge the charcoal in larger quantities if you don't separate it from the ash first. So better wash it out first.
@@mandersson6754 Thank you, good to know.
If you just want to add some clay, cat litter might work. I've been looking online, but nobody knows what the pottery sherds were for.
Yes. Bentonite, usually.
Elderberry pretty Hardy I was knocking some down and threw some branches at a different spot in the sprouted
Mmmmm, garden soup. 🤣👍
Thank you David, I have been following you for some time. I have a problem in that I never know where you are. Please tell me you are not being evicted from your homes. ( I'm old and don't know how to insert emojis) Anyway, thank you so much for what you do. I come from zone 6 Massachusetts but now live in Brava, Cape Verde islands. Things are different here, trying to learn.
No, not evicted. Except once, by a psycho.
David plant a tomato plant in your mature to test for herbicide.
I know about this; however, you can't test it easily before it's on your land. You also don't know if part of a pile is contaminated and another part is not.
@@davidthegood I've been struggling with this too. I was thinking of just using chicken manure with chip bedding.
I smell another book idea: How to improve your wretched soil...for good.
That is good.
Elizabeth asks, David will you only rototill until the amendments are eventually well incorporated, and then rototill no more, and just mulch and amend on top of the soil? Thanks.
In the perennial beds I won't keep tilling, but in the main annual gardens I will, in order to cover crop and keep building tge soil. I will have biochar in both so we will see what happens.
Sorry man, couldn't make it through this one. I'm in my first trimester and that soup made me gag
As she searches for pickles and ice cream 🍦 videos
Dave's Fetid Swamp Nuggets
I am making my 1st batch of Biochar, and am neurotic about making the bestestist of all Man's Char ever made in all of Earths History! Who Doesn't Think Like That? 😂 So I was watching every vid on Char, I could find, and heard David the Good put soup in his... Pause button and headed into the kitchen, to get some of my wifes Lasagna soup! With a few bits of ground beef in there even! 😅😅😅 I was worried it's s too soupy, but now I won't dump out the valuable inputs i added, and just let it evaporate, & rot naturally. The highest point of activity in the bucket will be installed in the char, and after its light to lift I am gonna mix it into my compost, and a cpl bags of store bought top soil, and adding it to my lawn. I believe i gotta mix it all together, and let it propagate, and coagulate again w the soil and compost before spreading it. Maybe add some food source for that process like rice or powdered potatoe flakes. Why the hell not eh? Only gonna do it once hopefully, so lets make my lawn the bestestist!
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I think I have around 15-20 inputs in the bucket!😅 why not eh?
Hahaha. I love it!
Do you have any idea if the clay pots were fired or just dried?
You can always use your homemade terracotta pots to collect your urine samples.
Oh and you were wrong about one thing. We did expect you to do that, because of the title.
Been using your methods for about 2 years and my lil food forest is really starting to pop. I found a lady with 27 acres only 12 min away from the that has given me free range.... i dont even know where to start😂 well thats a lie i done made loades of cuttings and air layers.
Rock on!!!
None of us may ever be able to segregate our growing plots from the influence of water-soluble glyphosate. It is said to be pervasive at dangerous levels in the world's water supply now.
Have you ever played around with ehime-AI5?
You probably have the same red clay three inches down like we did on our place. Fortunately I have a bunch of pines and other trees that I'm burning into bio char. I let my place heal for 41 years. Our soil was like red concrete. LOL
what about a mobile chicken tractor?
How did this project turn out ?
Did the charged bio char work out and made the soils more productive like you hoped ?
The areas with biochar had happier plants. I'm not sure how it would do long-term, as we moved, but it was encouraging enough to do more experimentation.
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Would be good to revisit if your staying put in the new area to do a long term testing
Elderberry is a lot like Willow, as far as propagation goes. Cut the most recent growth, stab it into the Earth, and dont let it dry out. 95% success rate👍🏻
It does kind of look like pig slop sure the kids and Rachel were very happy it was not for them. 🤢🤢The sound effects after the visual.🤢🤢Your garden will love it. Kombucha and sugar it is probably like that sweetness from raw bread dough.
You’re not the only one ☝️🤮😪🤢
You and my neighbor would get along , she hates it when I use the fertilizer but I told her I’d rather her smell the stink for a day then me spray carcinogenic stuff and her get cancer for life !
BDU FTW!
Yes, organic.
I am viewer like 069 .. .. .. Loving the covid camo .. .. ..
The Rover perseverance landed on Mars today. As I watch this I can’t help but wonder if biochar might help humans terraform Mars. Maybe in a few years NASA will consult the compost everything guru. 😁
Mmm
Turnip Charder
How much snow did you get? We’re on day six in TX. currently snowing.
David the Good will need cows so he knows its 100 percent clean with Monsanto pesticides
everyone... I want you to, in your creepiest deep whisper voice, utter the phrase "we're going to let something else eat it."
A science project soup
That soup looks just like my tomato leek soup!
When I saw him pouring it I thought, my cat can do better than that.
I am interested in your Bio char work but won't it take years to see results?
If you charge it with compost or soup then big results first year
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im fittin to throw up real quick but im down with all this
if you want real terra preta your going to have to take a big old steamy dump in it. No joke. That is likely the manure that they used way back when.
I know you're a plant guy, and not a critter guy...but you just may need some critters of your own to get the quality manure you want.
That poor biochar. In the Amazon there were old broken pieces of pottery. See if a farm nearby feeds their animals green fodder. Race horses, but there are others.
Looks like something like my 2 year old had in her diaper a couple days ago lol 🤣 very cool video though what part of the world are you in now
Another awesome video David. Great documentary the secret of Eldorado th-cam.com/video/vUAEa4ORAkY/w-d-xo.html heaps of info about terra preta and a great book that heavily references terra preta is "before columbus" super short read.
👀 not today I didn’t 😊. Another happy intentional accident is accidentally putting some of that rich soil in the water on your biochar.
I believe Terra Preta was originally made with human and animal wast along with charcoal , clay, broken pottery. I'm trying to bring to life a large pile of charcoal I made.