Biochar Inoculation Part 2

[@JulieWolf]

12:12 EM-1 Bokashi - Fermented Food Waste. I am just starting out with this as well as biochar so looking forward to learn how to inoculate biochar with EM-1 or Bokashi. EM is mostly beneficial bacteria. Spraying mowed grass with EM-1 Activated (extended) on top of cardboard on new garden plot, also adding Mycroryzea (beneficial fungus), and planting squash seeds at the same time. Should turn into soil in a week as the winter squash seeds sprout. - UPDATE: What I learned from this video. 1. Biochar Conditioning (does all 3: ph, microbes & nutrients) : The Bokashi juice you drain from buckets every 2-3 days (leachate) is acidic (ph 3.5), balancing the alkaline (ph 9) biochar; plus its full if microbes (fungal and bacterial) and nutrients from the food waste. 2. Unlike compost or worm casting, you CAN add meat and dairy. Careful with salty food - you don't want to accumulate salts in your soil. 3. Too acidic to add to worm bins (full strength). (The guy in the orange cap said, while this is close to no pathogens, its not as safe as worm castings, where its 100% "clean" after going through a worms gut). However, on EMRO site www.emrojapan.com, creator or EM-1, there are many case studies of EM use in disaster relief (Thailand, Japan, Poland disaster) dealing with flooding, sewage, rotting animal bodies, smell cleanup. Even treating water or how to use it when water is not available for showers. So it must help remove pathogenic microbes. Thank you for covering EM-1 and Bokashi.

[@JulieWolf]

Aerobic Compost Tea Recipe: In bag*: 2 C good compost 2 C Worm Castings 2 T Kelp Meal 2 T Alfalfa 1 T Fish Meal 1 T Sea90 1 T Azomite In water: Water between 65-75 F 1 T Liquid Fish 2T Molasses * Fungal Tip: Prep bag with some oats and above bag mix, moisten with compost tea and let age for 2 weeks to use for the next application (for use every 2-3 weeks apply to garden - besides biochar inoculation, its also used in garden to fertilize/innoculate soil).

[@exintrovert6803]

What? Nobody has given you an award yet? 🥇 MVP!

[@ethnodrew]

Thanks for that!

[@trevorbeck8380]

Solid work

[@cowboyblacksmith]

Hot Damn! My brain was bio char soaking in all of this info. Free, in depth, well taught and easy to understand incredibly useful and important information. Thank you so much for this master class. Now that it's December in New England I'll go nuts before I can utilize it, but this past year’s incredible success with compost (seaweed compost at that) and dialing in the biochar-man will my garden be the epitome of greatness, cannot wait! Thanks so much; with all the negativity and despair with Covid and politics this has pulled me back from the brink and reinstalled a profound sense of wonder and positive anticipation. Hurry up Spring solstice.🌞🌺🌈🌍

[@waynetadlock9719]

Another Worm Nerd comment: 23:18, yes you can feed it to a vermicompost bin- and yes it does need to be done in moderation. The key is to use an amount less than 25% of total :Surface Area," not volume, surface area. I prefer 10-15 percent, buried and they are usually into it in 3-4 days. But they have to be able to avoid it until then. Let them decide... < This is probably the 4th time I've watched this \, (both parts), and just can't seem to keep my mouth shut. I get a little more from it each time I view it, Thank you all. God Bless.

[@danielhettinger8182]

Very nice, thanks Wayne for the detailed comments!

[@antonysanthosh2342]

N big

[@SkyeRiv]

I am totally new to plants, compost, worms and Biochar. But and I am absolutely fascinated and obsessed. And the look in my friends and family face when I talk about Biochar is so hilarious. I feel so sorry for them cause they have no clue how amazing this is 😂

[@SkyeRiv]

Oh yeah, Thank you for your videos!!!!!

[@BigWesLawns]

Same here, wait till people see the NO MIRACLE GROW DEADRIENT results. My results as a new maker of Good compost and organic input biochar are amazing and its only july 1st. 😂 🇨🇦👊🏻👨‍🌾💕💖🙏🍁♻️🍁🍄🐞🐛🐝🌞

[@Thumpiez]

Im a regular uninformed person when it comes to this and today I feel confident enough to start busting moves on my property amazing information....

[@everlastinggrass]

Great job, seriously.... so much in your brain and you show the known action taken, that's all anyone could ask.....

[@timyates807]

Great info , I've watched oh about 5 videos so far and I just wanted to comment and say thank you very much. It's exciting looking into it all ,it gives a new dimension to horticulture. You've all done a wonderful job at clearly passing on the information . I'm so glad I came across your channel. Thanks once again. Take care

[@jaymoss966]

, z,ppl

[@TheKlink]

i read somewhere that with enough fungal activity in the soil salts will be rendered inert , and then in some of the follow up greening the desert videos geoff lawton mentioned it as well.

[@YarrHarr11]

Thanks for this, great info you are helping spread far and wide!

[@southerncrossfarm994]

How long should the biochar "steep" in the worm/compost tea before it is fully inoculated and ready to be amended to the garden ?

[@chriskladis9522]

I'm using a 2 week mark. but my Biochar is ground in a dedicated garbage disposal unit I made just for that purpose

[@oneperson5760]

Thanks so much for this! I ordered azomite and joined the email list for the rich earth/urine site. Charged my char with stinky fish liquid fertilizer, chicken manure, urine and will add azomite too.

[@jonathanmartins7744]

Your knowledge will save the world!

[@brotharuss]

How long do you soak biochar in an aerated compost tea? (For 100% inoculation ) Thanks for sharing this information.

[@trinathsai9667]

Good & Marvel's video, exposure and awareness to share your experiences Thanks again for your kindness.

[@MrTulliusCicero]

Thanks for putting this on the web, very interesting.

[@spammenot1750]

Your videos are incredibly valueable.Thank you so much!

[@rickparshall]

So many questions.. lol great videos you put out,have binge watched so many...😁.. been putting char in henhouse,also turkey enclosure (stinkiest animals EVER,,) and on ground behind CornishXs tractors(second stingiest animals ever) lol the odor is gone..!! However until recently (thanks to your retort videos) I am making it with the 55gal/35gal drums.. was using coals from wood stove and ash.. the areas I run tractors with chickens are next years grow spots.. using first test area for corn.. as far as compost I am confused now, EVERYTHING goes in pile.. pile is in chicken run( separate spot the darn chickens would still get in and spread everywhere.. a guy in Naples NY nearby was composting in chicken run so I started.. chickens turn raw materials into nice compost in 3(ish)weeks.. I add grass clippings and leaves and pile gets (raw pile) wicked hot (guessing that kills pathogens?) so the chickens steer clear for a day or so before spreading it out.. then that moves to next station, I add grains like oats or rye to keep them interested( they LOVE the sprouting grains) I usually add a bit of well composted (?) woodchip mulch and move to final pile.. it seems like beautiful compost.. (now with biochar incorporated at every angle( in coops and sprinkled in second stage pile) I am guessing this should be good for garden...? Have done some tea making with rabbit manure (slightly aged with fungi working) but had not aerated while brewing but only steeped it 24 or less hrs, is this turning it anaerobic..?? Seems to have helped everything but the carrots it burned and than the darn chickens shredded🙄🙁... lol too many questions? Thanks again from the Finger Lakes region NY!!

[@mrittenb]

Your seminar was most interesting. Makes me wish I had more then a patio being a city dweller!

[@tobiasessiger615]

Incredibly good information. Hust missing the links for those downloads he keeps mentioning. Anybody?

[@BigWesLawns]

The 1st time I watched this, it was amazing, and I ran off doing stuff. Now I came back and heard stuff that either I wasnt ready to hear, or missed😂 There is so much more to this video than meets the eye. I havent even checked out the char nerd resources you mention. Very valuable upload Folks. 🙏 🇨🇦👊🏻👨‍🌾💕💖🍁♻️🍁 🐝🐛🐞🍄🌞

[@JuanTutors]

Love the video. Just want to add, definitely should convert the proportions to the approximate proportions that you are putting into your mix. So if you are putting urine at twice the amount of biochar, what you would get is the biochar at 100:1 combined with two times 50.5 : 50.5, making the fraction of nitrogen (1+50.5+50.5)/(101+101+101). This is totally about the same number, 102/303 or around 33%, but it's just a coincidence.

[@corzerlowe3107]

Enjoyed both parts. Thanks for sharing🤠

[@infiniteadam7352]

Loving this, I can't wait to be myself in a year, I am going to know all about worm castings and biochar and probably be woofing around the country...

[@VicShoup-ec6jb]

Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful information.

[@willieblevins4997]

Look into recharge nutrient ,great white and milorganite I use them in my teas . Your guys content is excellent.

[@owl369]

Thanks for this video. What is this person's name. He is not only intelligent, but quite modest. Thanks for all this excellent information. May I ask: what about comfrey leaves and making some compost tea. I dont have a set up for complex things like what your doing but I do this year have finally got some comfrey. Do you find it useful at all in making a simple compost tea. Also., separate question, but what about adding newspaper bullets urine from cats? Removing the feces and only the urine soaked newspaper bullets into the food compost or leaves compost bins: is it ok to do?

[@michaelhenes6410]

Would be very interested in seeing the links the instructor mentions.

[@johnela4705]

Presumably the Bokashi leachate gets diluted before inoculating the biochar? If so, what concentration do people use?

[@haribabusukhavasi2595]

Very informative and best video.

[@endgamefond]

The idea of urine still hard for me. I might do it someday. Even I am worried with e coli in manure. I know e coli also live in soil but I read e coli contamination in lettuce. It kinda scares me

[@Jjkhan89]

Hey, i have one question if you can help please? As Bio char is not recommended for alkaline soil as it’s increase the alkalinity.. Bio char is so good in the other characteristics that i really wanna try on alkaline soil to fix some problems...How about if i mix the sulphur bentonite with biochar, will that reduce biochar alkalinity characteristics ?

[@erector5953]

It's the ash and not the biochar that is alkaline . You can use urea or urine to balance the PH .

[@OfftoShambala]

Interesting… I added bentonite clay to my bio char … but you could add rough crushed non glazed terra cotta pots and some shards… there was a lot of this in the tera preta… I think adding bentonite might be a good idea, but I put my mix in my compost bin and have not used it yet. You could use the bokashi leachate … that he talked about closer to the end… How did things go for you?

[@robertevans8024]

I have a small urban back yard that's a concrete slab. All my plants are in raised beds. I have a black plastic 55 gallon barrel with dozens of holes drilled into the sides and bottom. I compost my kitchen scraps and shredded cardboard and brown paper bags. It's served me well for several years. It doesn't heat up like a large pile but it is full of worms that find their own way, somehow. I try to screen the compost each spring before planting. Today, I mixed about 4-6 tablespoons of molasses with about a half gallon of fresh urine and poured it over my compost pile after turning it. I'm wondering if that will help speed up decomposition and fertility...???🤔 Also, is it better to use fresh urine or let it ferment into ammonia first ? New subscriber. 👍👍😁

[@briansmith6824]

Fresh urine works OK. The active microbes will take care of it.

[@farmindank3479]

Hello, I was wondering if it mattered what sprayer or sump pump is used for application to not damage our microbe population?

[@JJ-yk1ks]

A thing to remember about worm bedding and feeding. Worn are sober vegetarians on meat no alcohol neutral pH oxygen rich add oats and unbleached raw corn meal in small amounts garden lime to keep Ph up hand fulls of soil layer from just below loose leaves in a hardwood forest Feed slowly

[@guilhermecoelho3216]

When you speak about mulch in the end, how do you apply it? Green or you do some kind of composting? Love the video

[@daviddroescher]

Depending on if mulch is being used as cover or as a supplemental housing for microbiology. For cover composed would be a waste as UV sun light will brake down all non-woody life in the mulch returning it to its pre composted state at reduced volume. I use fresh screened wood chip ½"plus (~13mm) , (smaller goes to composter )for cover over everything thing, no exposure of UV to dirt/compost.

[@guilhermecoelho3216]

@@daviddroescher Thanks

[@grateful1185]

Great information! Thanks for breaking it down very simply. Question: Could I use just EM-1 to charge my biochar, and if so, how long should I soak it?

[@jeremyschissler337]

no..you need nitrogen to charge the biochar .......any source of nitrogen will do ...although amino acids are superior ........Biochar is just an empty apartment that needs more than life in it...precharging it is essentially stocking the refrigerator and then adding the Em1 is like inviting everyone over for a superbowl party

[@kimskluckers5665]

❓❓❓I put my charcoal from my woodstove into my chicken coop under the roosts. Is this a form of biochar❓❓❓

[@erector5953]

Beaker yeast's and fermented rice jus are my homemade "EM"

[@gerryt643]

Very well done presentation. I'm wondering if one could use the grey water from our septic tank to inoculate the biochar?

[@briansmith6824]

It will add nutrients but not the right microbes for growing. Go ahead, filter the grey water to recover those nutrients, then mix it with compost or tea to load the microbes.

[@daviddroescher]

Gray has to be separated before the septic tank, otherwise it is considered black water full of too many undesirable pathogens ( note from part1: also products growen with human waste is not saleable )

[@motleydigger]

Also most people have said to use the urine within 24hour or you lose nitrogen. You're method is to wait 3 weeks correct?

[@jdnthecanadian424]

Check out KNF or Korean Natural Farming. This talk is paralleling that system. Also Dr.Elaines food web, she has Extremely valuable information. More scientific than this. Still right alongside what he is doing here. Good Growing!

[@istvanpeto6558]

Köszönöm!

[@kimskluckers5665]

❓❓❓I have been pulling out the charcoal from my wood stove every day and adding my diluted urine and chicken poop to the bucket. Is this good for my sandy garden❓❓❓

[@kuldeepsingh-kf8uy]

How to stabilised a biomass tarrefication plant ?

[@Howtofarmandgarden]

Genesis Biochar organic soil conditioner could be part of the solution. It is mostly carbon and can last for a thousand years.

[@NewEraGardener]

I do add small amounts of Bio-char to my bedding when I start a new one , I seen you add the worm tea to the Bio char for how long you let it stay in the bucket before removing the char

[@sidneyeaston6927]

era1fx. Life depends on the cycling of carbon not locking it up for hundreds of years. Bio char is good in small amounts but is no match for naturally decaying plant matter. Powders potions and snake oil have no place in the garden. No amount of plastic bins full of worms will ever replace the worms that should be in your soil. if you look after the natural live stock that is native in your soil you will be able to throw away a lot of the plastic buckets worm farms air pumps and other rubbish that you have collected. Your whole garden is your worm fungi and bacteria bin and once you have set it up properly you should only need to replenish it with plant matter equal to the amount that you have removed as harvest.

[@briansmith6824]

If you haven't discovered by now, charcoal adsorbs nutrients as fast as it absorbs water. Biochar is not biodegradable so it keeps working long after compost is gone.

[@j.m.harris4202]

Flyash Concrete for Highways and Airport Landing Strips uses coal ash waste from Coal Burning Power Plants! Carbon sequestration in Soil is the Natural Order! No waste byproducts go unused!

[@lawrencepeceniak3908]

Dan, because char is nonreactive and stays in the soil for a thousand years or so can it be considered a carbon source like leaves or wood chips?

[@greenwood4020]

As you have mentioned Biochar is nonreactive and stays in the soil for thousands of years so it is a carbon "sink" or repository because of this long time span. But not as long as Coal or Oil which is 100s of millions of years until we dig it up. Whereas leaves degrade quickly (a few seasons) and wood a bit longer ( chips a few years branches and logs a decade or so). This means their carbon is released to the atmosphere as Co2 and is a source.

[@davidgraham5011]

@@greenwood4020 What about Lawrence's question, how can considered a carbon source?

[@briansmith6824]

@Greenwood is correct. Leaves and wood chips are a carbon source for biodegradation, also called composting. Charcoal is not biodegradable so it is a inert medium to support microbe growth.

[@kishoreb1695]

Biochar is to be ground to what size before to mix with compost

[@briansmith6824]

I put mine through a small yard waste shredder to get 1/4" or smaller. I don't like larger chunks in my sandy loam. (But then, I don't like stones either.) I feel that the finer grind is distributed better through the soil column.

[@kishoreb1695]

@@briansmith6824 noted and thanks for the response.

[@jeanetteinthisorn4955]

Do you measure by weight or volume?

[@danielhettinger8182]

Volume

[@jeanetteinthisorn4955]

Daniel Hettinger Thank you :-)

[@SARJENT.]

Solids. Not salts.

[@michaeloyangoren1730]

Hi Sir Good Day,,Thanks for the video,I just want to ask if the unit for the degree of the water which is between 65-80 degrees is in celcius or fahrenheit,thank you sir and more power

[@dancrane3807]

He is talking farenheit. He'd have had to talk about cooking it to get it to 75 degrees celcius

[@sidneyeaston6927]

For Michael Oyangoren. Bacteria in compost or any where else begin to die at 65 centigrade that is how milk is pasteurised, meat is cooked by raising it to a core temperature of about 75 centigrade and holding at that for 10 min. For info from the U S use Fahrenheit. For normal people slightly warm to the touch will do.

[@Kneebuckler2011]

102(???) /3 i think it should be 102 divided by 3.

[@oldstudbuck3583]

The dude with the orange Stihl hat, is he there to learn or give advice?

[@rodwilliams5074]

Both as he is part of the Living Web Farms team. His name is Pat Battle and you can see him do other videos for LWF.

[@brothaman1571]

Is every video staged?

[@brothaman1571]

Still good videos

[@christianalexdiazabanto3245]

In spanish

[@robertnash67]

I am 👍65.

[@MasterKenfucius]

I don't buy it. You mean to tell me that Nature needs our help multiplying microbes? Please!

[@briansmith6824]

We help nature multiply cows, pigs and chicken along with lots of different kinds of plants.

[@MasterKenfucius]

@@briansmith6824 We don't help Nature do anything! We help ourselves multiplying cows, pigs, and chickens, and that creates a HUGE PROBLEM of greenhouse emissions! These animals combined emit more greenhouse gases than our entire transportation sector! So no, we screw everything up by multiplying too many of these animals for our consumption. I'm not a vegetarian, but I am aware of the problem.

[@briansmith6824]

@@MasterKenfucius Exactly! My sarcastic point was that if we are impactng the environment by growing all that livestock ON the ground, at least we ought to be enhancing the environment by promoting beneficial organisms IN the ground.

[@MasterKenfucius]

@@briansmith6824 My original point is that nature will produce enough microbes to take care of anything we toss at it. If the soil is moist and non-polluted then it will be just fine without our help. Anytime we stick our hand into things we mess something up, not help it. Covid 19 is a virus and we can't even stop it, but people want to create more microbes... just leave it alone. They'll get there just fine.

[@briansmith6824]

​@@MasterKenfucius Humans have been sticking their hands into a lot of natural things and doing well - Honeycrisp apples, Peaches and Cream corn, Mandarin oranges, Turducken. Well, maybe not turducken. :) The Secret of Biochar is that when it is added, soil becomes more productive than the sum of its parts. Human history is replete with instances of failed civilizations, all of which before the 1800’s, were agriculture-based. From The “Fertile Crescent” of ancient Mesopotamia, to the eroded valleys of Greece, to desertified Africa, to the ruins of the Pueblos of southwest North America, humans have exhausted and destroyed the soil that fed them within 75 generations. Everywhere except in the Amazon region of South America where biochar was used. Why? - We know that they all farmed sustainably. Recycling waste and organic material was known to all farmers long before nitrogen was made with electricity, and potassium and phosphorus was mined. - We know that they all had access to sufficient water to grow crops until the soil died and changed the local weather. Because you can’t beat the Second Law of Thermodynamics, i.e. entropy. No matter what energy cycle is used, there is always some amount of loss. Over the course of centuries, the soil on every farm becomes more and more depleted unless it it replenished with external inputs (like flood silt). Our modern agriculture is a shell game - moving minerals from one place to another and using massive amounts of energy to produce nitrogen. It may look like we are beating entropy but annual agriculture production records show that it is costing more and more to produce less and less. There is only one thing in the universe that is anti-entropy - LIFE. And biochar promotes LIFE to supercharge the soil food web. Bottom line: biochar may be the magic bullet that keeps the human race viable. I hope so, because the Industrial Age of humanity is only about 300 years old and it is not aging well.

[@JJ-yk1ks]

No expert by any means , Try using shredded cardboard brown only no color or glossy remove tape and labels you are correct about no dirt but do add horse manure soil from under the loose leaves in a hardwood forest, some garden lime

[@maxamedcabdulaahi4787]

Masoo gashey

[@cropduster2740]

that is the dirtiest bucket i have ever seen.You are inviting bad things to get in your tea.

[@ABplusOriginal]

As with life....you need diversity

[@kobracom77]

Why doesn't the know-it-all in the Stihl hat, just teach this guys course.....Such an arrogant thing to do...

[@markod78]

The guy in the sthil hat is part of the team at Living web...

[@kobracom77]

@@markod78 So what? He obviously has a lot to say....And there was obvious attitude there..."Stihl" no excuse....