Ring of Fire units burn 20 cy at a time. You are correct. It takes a good amount of material to make quality char, but we see smaller burns being effective such a standard burn piles with the intention of making charcoal. Any bit adds up! In my experiences I've noticed land owners think to small and don't believe we can burn all the wood the have on their land. Granted we are working with property owners who have anywhere from 1-1,000 or more acres...

My failure to explain in detail is evident. This is a sifted bin of all my beetle bins. Im mindful to keep pupas and beetles separated. Our operation had a grain mite issue, mostly due to a lack to proper mitigation efforts, which we are now committing to. However, we had to process 70 bins in total with half of them being beetles. Our last round of hatched pupas were nearly complete by the time this video was generated. Our hopes are to breed a clean batch of eggs and in 3 months be more free. Wish us luck! Thank you for the comment.

It’s debatable, but for sure we obtained some Chitin oligosaccharides

​@@kofrass5730maybe supplement this stew with trichoderma harzanium or viride?

Depends, the land owner has said they plan on fermenting it or composting it, or top dressing on their gardens. I suggested a simple compost extract. Would have been good to quench the coals with the extract.

I guess not everyone can do this! Mine smells good, like a fishy smell

The quick method is brown sugar, the most sustainable is plant extracts

certainly, just make sure to collect the coals and give em a quench. Others I know keep a bucket near the fireplace and drench the coals in water. A metal bucket is preferred just be careful not to start a house fire. Our group always generates biochar outside with water nearby, please be safe when you do this.

they did, i wish i had used them earlier instead of waiting till later. The strawberries really enjoyed the sulfur treatments.

I think 1/8th inch

I am a menace to civilised society (backyard farmer) and I can confirm that this works. Careful, hot plastic hurts.

Awesome! I’d recommend just using chicken wire around compost to keep the vermin away.

It’s good, adds more stable carbon to the soil which is always a good thing!

EM-2 water

It was CHARming

Stirring the medium adds aerobic microbes, we stir once a day. How can you also say no oxygen is being introduced when it bubbles naturally, or that it’s minuscule? That’s quite a statement! The ferment is also left open without a cover for a few hours after we stir and we do this at dusk. It was raining the other day with the lid off, once’s closed a film will develop to cap off dehydration once it settles, It’s receiving oxygen the same way soil does, via permeability. When running a bubbler, it’s evaporating nutrients right out of the tea. This is why I don’t bubble anything, I’m hard pressed to see a bubbler in nature. Also this is the 4th month this fermentation has been running, cannot ferment anything for 4 months with a bubbler. You can use a bubbler all you wish, for the KO Process it’s not required nor is it recommended. Different strokes different folks. My focus is having a high density of beneficial Anaerobic bacteria to assist in the process of enriching biochar to increase its long term stability, and for composting. If you like bubblers feel free, just not for me.

@kofrass5730 I said it because it's a basic fact man. Any gas bubbles bro, not just oxygen. In a ferment the gas in question is carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide DOESN'T OXYGENATE THE WATER. it instead turns into carbolic acid and hydrogen. This will slightly acidify the water over time. This is actually one reason high C02 in the atmosphere is acidifying the oceans. Anyways, the point is bro the bubbles don't mean diddly. Stirring, agitating and/or a larger surface area will oxygenate water, but still nowhere near what a bubbler does. My question is how do you not know gas bubbles don't mean oxygen lol, bruh. I cannot correct all your incorrect assumptions you made in that reply. I am most confused by your statement you can't use ferment with a bubbler for 4 months. What are you even trying to say? Time and oxygen and plant matter directly relate to microbe population in the names when you increase oxygen you increase microbes in the same time frame.

@@danielgeci4513 no one is questioning anything, you have it figured out. The bubbler is an act of oxidation. The goal of omitting a bubbler is to increase nutrient density by acidic actions aka fermentation to bind most nutrients to generate a highly soluble liquid, which cannot be completed as efficiently with a bubbler. Their are many gasses produced by fermentation which can be reduced with certain compounds. Compost teas can be generated for many specific purposes, mine may not be similar to yours, I just don’t need a bubbler, Ever.

@@danielgeci4513 if you cannot understand what I am saying, come to a seminar and I’ll show you. You keep editing your responses making it very difficult to answer them. Thanks for watching my videos. I would highly suggest studying up on Korean Natural Farming. They have multiple resources online to learn about the beautiful world of anaerobic microbiology and why aggregates are the most important aspect to soil health. Maybe you already know this. Best of luck.

@kofrass5730 I edit my responses to fix typos because I make allot using a phone keyboard, especially at work where I was when I replied originally Those edits happened in a 5 minute span lol, also I am way more aware of knf and other methods than you'd imagine. Thanks anyways lol. Nothing wrong with knf other than it's totally overblown and brought nothing new or revolutionary with it. It also doesn't work from a biology and chemistry standpoint the way you seminar gurus explain it anyway. It's probably best you take some biology and chemistry classes before i attend your seminar. All that said I do think fermenting yard waste is a decent tool for vertical integration, not the best tool and certainly not a stand-alone solution for most people regarding fertilizer.

It’s a combination of both facultative aerobe and anaerobe working together; which will then go through another purification process once this fermentation is completed!

@@kofrass5730 very interesting

I am all in for figuring out how to naturally organically farm and feed the world and I've put actual effort into trying to solve that puzzle and it seems you underappreciate the massive change in society necessary to pull that off. It is NOT a matter of all the present farmland converting to natural production of fertilizers and vertically integrating fertilizer production into the farm's production of crops. One issue is phosphorus. There is no real way to make plant available phosphorous. Phosphorus is released super slow naturally and you're being like to when ppl sell rock dust and say it's phosphorus. Yea it is, but your plants can't use it until a decade later as the soil acids start breaking down the rock dust. So to achieve the goal of enough PLANT AVAILABLE phosphorus for world food production is potentially not mathematically possible organically, using the strictest sense of the term. This is why it's important you don't call all non organic fertilizers 'nasty chemicals'. For example it isn't legally speaking organic to process rocks into plant available phosphorous with acid, but that's all it is. Soaking rocks in acid is literywhats happening when rocks sit in soil. We just use a stronger acid. This 100% can and is easily done environmentally responsibility. Be careful not to blanket demonize anything that isn't pitched to you as organic and the like. The capitalist pigs and their marketing wizards have taken over that genre. You need to fully educate yourself not get the cliff items via reading the opinions of others on social media etc. Oh to be clear why I said it would take a giant societal change is because the only way I see this working is spreading farming out over the globe and turning society into a largely agrarian and herding society where private family property is all farmed to an extent. We all have to call nteibut to the food production system if it's to work organically and regeneratively. This is the only way we can access enough of the limiting factor of phosphorus. The idea is spreading out the farming in order to access all the available phosphorus being held hostage by the green deserts of suburban lawns and commercial landscaping. To be clear tho if ppl stop being hung up on buzzwords like chemical fertilizers and realize soaking rocks in acid isn't bad for the environment and shouldn't be under the chemical fertilizer umbrella and demonized we could progress intelligently not idealistically. There are many examples of this btw, not just soaking rocks in acid. Many chemical fertilizers are not bad. An issue is however over fertilizing and how farms fertilize and steward their land. This puts fertilizers in the waterways and it isn't the fact they are chemically deprived that's the issue. We are creating algae blooms and changing ph of water and Kiko ng wildlife that way with fertilizer the reason organic regenerative farming doesn't is the land is darker differently as a whole and mass applications doesn't happen once or twice a year creating run off etc.

@@danielgeci4513 that’s a lot of text and assumptions. It’s simple to harness phosphorus, look up C4 photosynthesis plants, so many cover crops too. The ignorance of farmers to basic biology is a testament to the generated lack of knowledge. Doing what dad did no longer is an excuse. How about kicking Ag chemical lobbies out of DC and defunding the super pacs and political prostitution of incumbents? It’s funny that the most educated beings I run into about soil power are dirty hippies who didn’t even finish high school and know more than Cornell PHDs! Here’s a solid article I think will Benefit you! www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10748132/ Best regards. KO Ken

We kindly please need to learn this in our country

Welcome!

If you would care to elaborate exactly what you are speaking about problems, please do not hesitate!

This video is about generating carbon with spent agricultural biomass. I would certainly appreciate if we could stay focused on the topic at hand. Thank you.

On my way to make biochar for another client, if you wanna assist by all means.

That’s ok, not everyone has to care just a few.

Do you live here?

The particles they are releasing from this burn will affect many other adjacent properties and the run off of potassium hydroxide will cause PH issues in season streams. Everything a property owner does impacts those around them. Also this land is being held in trust by the local municipality and will be passed on to someone else in the future. On this earth most things are temporary owned and deeds to lands will pass through many individuals. This impacts everyone.

Right on!

Only that on its own? What quantity?

@@mariammangerah2124about the molasses? You only need a tablespoon for like a five gallon bucket that’s how I would do it but my mixture was a lot wetter. Make sure it’s unsulfured or you can use any sugar source regular sugar even sodas bacteria will grow rapidly