Enrich Your Soil For A Thousand Years With Activated Biochar - Turn Regular Charcoal Into Biochar

[@copperridgegrow3940]

Protect this man at all costs

[@BigWesLawns]

Too Late for them! I already ran out and grabbed the exact bag he shows in the video! 💪😅😂😉👌 🇨🇦👊🏻👨🏻‍🏭💖🙏🌞

[@ChadnRanda]

Fosho, him and David the good, we gotta keep an eye out, they're coming for us if something happens to either one of them

[@samartinez1988]

This man? Even bears are afraid of him!

[@swazilandirtbikes]

'O.k. This is where it's at my friends'. 'Don't forget to supercharge!'

[@porkchopexpress6969]

Seriously, who is after this dude?

[@Darkfyre755]

I did this as an experiment under my plantain banana trees and the one with the charcoal is currently about 5 feet taller than the other one! This stuff is magical!!

[@gardenlikeaviking]

thank you for sharing!!

[@GronVag]

Wow😮

[@nosequiters]

not a sufficent sample size but still cool

[@Darkfyre755]

@@nosequiters of course! Didn't have enough money for many banana trees unfortunately, they're quite expensive and I'm not a scientist lol

[@johnwilliams8184]

@@Darkfyre755 so easy to grow one just plant a banana in the compost

[@davidcappaert8740]

Great video,thanks. I'm 77 and not in the shape I was 40 years ago. About 5 years ago I started making charcoal, running it through a wood chipper and adding to my compost pile. it's a passive pile and takes about 2 years to finish. I have 6 of these. They are 42 x 42 inch wood pallet bins. If want to speed up the biocharge I make aerated compost tea that I let run for five days, adding 2 tablespoons of molasses everyday till done. Add the charcoal on the third day. On the fourth day the tea has approximately 6 million critters per spoonful.That's by microscopic count. Had to find a way around all that shovel work. Huge difference in the garden.

[@lutvijahrnjic9670]

5 days seems too short of a time for inoculation so do you inoculate yours for 3 days only?

[@jonnyappleseed190]

Who counted that spoonful and came up with that number? I call bs

[@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123]

My thoughts…… YOU ARE THE BEST !!!! You can teach in such a clear concise understandable way in a short video it is amazing !!!! I have watched hundreds of gardening videos over the years, some 1 1/2 hours long and when I’m done I question, “what do I do” ?……not here, you are direct, to the point, don’t waste time, not a bunch of infomercials, not selling anything, not trapping people to watch by giveaways…..you are pure Gold and I am on a mission to make you KZbin famous !!!! I recommend you to everyone that wants to garden, I comment about you on other channels and hopefully send people here !!!! I can’t wait to see you earn enough to buy the land you dream of !!!! Thank you Nate, I know you are helping people to grow food easier, cheaper and healthier which will help people with food insecurities!!!! God bless you !!!

[@scottmiller1916]

I just typed in the question”Can I use my GREEN EGG lump coal too make my own bio- char ?” and was directed too your site. I’m so happy I found you😁!. I’m an old disabled grandpa that is gardening with his granddaughter, and due to 5 back surgeries and a lot of pain, sometimes without her😉, I’m recently leaning tech, ie. this SMART PHONE my daughters got me, but I subscribed and MUST learn how to converse with you, be it text or phone?Your a GARDEN GURU, a SOIL SAINT, a GROW BRO.I doubt any site will reach and teach what the earth NEEDS NOW

[@anacarrillo8328]

A lot of people have missed that the black soils of the prairie are basically biochar enriched. It got dry enough for for the occasional fires to prevent trees from growing. Even though only a little of the burned grassland was charcoal, over the centuries, it accumulated into deep black soils.

[@williamodell8634]

Hello Nate, Yes absolutely use Bio Char in your soil. I have 24 raised beds and have been adding Biochar into my beds for the last three years. Works wonders with my Sandy Florida soil. Leave mold, compost, Biochar and your teachings about using the JDAM system. The combination works wonders for my sand box soil. Thanks for helping us Organic Gardeners.

[@AlvinKazu]

Do you mix your biochar into your soil or just on the top layer? I've heard about mixing it in, so I'm unsure about just putting it on top, with regards to containers/raised-beds/pots/etc.

[@williamodell8634]

@@AlvinKazu I mix all of mine into the soil or add a layer to the surface and then cover with 2 inches of compost. It’s not really helpful to leave on top of the surface as the exposure to the sun can be harmful to the microbes you worked so hard to grow and nurture. This is from my experience with Biochar.

[@gromlynne3550]

I'd watch this channel even if I wasn't a gardener just for the injection of positivity and passion you have Nate. Thank you from Wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@gardenlikeaviking]

thank you for the positive energy my friend!!

[@willm5814]

Hey that’s me I’m not a gardener, I own a software company, but I’m absolutely certain that knowing this stuff is more important!

[@ivahihopeful]

I’m so excited! You made this doable for me, because I would’ve been an old lady before I would’ve ever been set up to make the charcoal myself.

[@gardenlikeaviking]

yes you can do it my friend no problem!!

[@norseman9367]

I wondered when you were going to get around to covering biochar, and I am glad you did. I first read about this about 20 years ago in the wonderful Acres USA eco-agricultural publication in an article about terra preta. That is Portuguese for dark earth. Ancient Amazonian civilizations made highly fertile soils in the Amazon basin, and if you have ever been in the tropics and seen the soils you would know that can be a challenge. They also utilized unfired pottery sherds for the clay minerals and to act as a type of perlite. I use leftover charcoal from my fruit and nut trees used in the grill, which goes through the chipper with other green waste and gets added to compost piles. I add kitchen waste, manure from horse, burro and llama, as well as urine, then hot compost it. I have been doing this for many years and have built amazing soils. I am now using the JADAM preparations as well. Outstanding work you are doing my friend, keep it coming!

[@OPINYAJAMES-o4q]

Good advice.

[@ancesthntr]

@Nate: The more of your videos that I watch, the more I appreciate the amazing experience and knowledge base that you have, as well as your genuine concern for everybody else trying to grow a garden. Tough times are either here or coming, and we as a nation are going to have to do a lot of what the World War II generation did in terms of producing our own food. The problem is that most people really don’t know how, and just think that if they dump a bunch of fertilizer in their garden that they buy at a big box store, that’s good enough. Thanks to you, we all know better. All of us should spread our own knowledge to family, friends and neighbors, including telling them about this channel. Rather than using urine for nitrogen (not that there’s anything wrong with that) another fantastic and free source is used coffee grounds that you can get for free from your local coffee shop. That is obviously in addition to whatever coffee grounds someone may have from their own brewing, though that is usually a very small quantity in comparison. Most of the acidity is removed during the brewing process, so you are left with something that is chock-full of nitrogen. Another good thing about coffee grounds is that they are roughly a 50-50 mix of carbon and nitrogen, so it is a good addition to a composting pile. You don’t have to worry that much about the ratio between greens and browns if you have a lot of coffee grounds.

[@stonerubber]

I spent the winter making biochar in pyrolizing stove (made from a clean one gallon paint can in a sap bucket with a 4" stack 3 feet high). Small batches. Takes some experimentation to get things right, but it can burn with almost no smoke. Even if you have neighbors around it is doable. I live in a "right to farm community," whatever that means, so people here are a little more relaxed about what you do on your property when it's burning, composting, keeping livestock, etc. Anyway, lots of ideas online for building one of these stoves. This practice sequesters carbon, too, people!

[@gardenlikeaviking]

thats interesting because the only way I've done it before is in a large 55gal steel drum and we had to start a large fire each time and then smother it out so there's no way I could do that where I'm currently at

[@justinbegin3827]

@@gardenlikeaviking, I have heavy clay in many areas of the property and will pile sticks that are finger to wrist sized vertically in a pyramid very close together until it's about 3' wide and 2' tall and cover it with damp, workable clay. I make around 7 holes around the perimeter at the bottom and one on the top of the pile. I will ignite the 7 bottom holes, and when I can see the fire in the top hole I plug all the holes with clay. Open it up the next day and, poof, charcoal, and a scorched area ready for planting after amendments.

[@joannmcculley8253]

​@@justinbegin3827 nice tip! I have 70% clay

[@B30pt87]

@@gardenlikeaviking There's a video on you Tube (sorry, I can't remember the name) where a guy who's been doing it for years gets two cans, crimps the edge of one so it will fit tight into the other and makes small batches in his stove. He says the cans wear out faster than a 50 gallon drum but they're easier to deal with. Oh yeah- he pokes one hole in the bottom of one of the cans for the gasses to escape.

[@oldporkchops]

@@B30pt87 kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5PSiXurr7J5qaM Here is the video you are probably referring to.

[@JohnDoe-tx6vz]

I made a retort to make charcoal but was unsure how to charge and apply. You have a gift for explaining clearly. Thanks for all your gardening videos.

[@gardenlikeaviking]

thank you for the positive energy my friend and now you know exactly how to charge it!!

[@archie3537]

Learn something new everyday from the viking king,

[@jesse4530]

I never thought of supercharging the biochar before. What a great idea. I'm trying to no-till my foodplots, but if I ever do till again ill definitely add this to get it all mixed in deep.

[@justinbegin3827]

Thank you for sharing this. I began making Biochar after stumbling across an academic research article about the Amazonian dark earth (Biochar) from over 1000 years ago and how those regions are still amazingly fertile and becoming even more fertile each year. Amazing how nature can turn what initially is a total destruction by fire into an ever-present source of life.

[@michael.S8041]

Indeed God is great

[@mizp1111]

Look at you! 60k plus followers now. Well done and deserved.

[@gardenlikeaviking]

thank you always for the support my friend!

[@TigerLilyGzzTLRoars]

After watching maybe 15 of your vids, I kept asking myself if you knew about biochar. OMG how fantastic! I just made almost an entire 55 gal barrel of biochar yesterday and the day before. It's crude and I used old wood pallets. Then I used a magnet to get all the nails out, then I used a round shovel to smash the pieces using a 55-gallon barrel that I had cut in half lengthwise. I was able to see what I had and get rid of rocks and other debris that I noticed. It was a crude way to make biochar and it was my first time after watching tons of vids. I have an area on my little 1/3 acre that I had carved out what was gonna be a pond but it's been so dry in the Texas Hill Country that it was dry as a bone and cone shaped. I got 4 small goats that love that space. My chickens and goats were thrilled to have me out there. I've been in a SUPER depressed state and trying everything to increase my vibrational energy. Gosh, your vids are incredibly helpful. Gonna start looking for your live shows cause you really are helping me stay alive. I started to watch your last live vid and I love how you answered someone's question - how to help others lift their energy. You used the two logs example. One is burning brightly, the other is smoldering. I told my husband of 41 years that luckily for me he has been the burning log stoking my smoldering log. Kind of sounds a little kinky now that I put it in writing. LOL From the bottom of my heart I wanna thank you for what you do. If you're helping me, I just KNOW you're helping others. I bet you're gonna have a million subs in no time!

[@Outlander929]

Hi Nate! I'm late to this one as I'm catching up after subbing to you... Just thought I'd add a comment. I cut down and dug out some big wild rose bushes next to my patch during the winter. I left the branches and roots where they fell and last month cut them into foot long lengths and used them to make charcoal. The burn went well and after dousing, I let the char sit in water overnight. The next day I added rice bran (brown), chicken manure and 2L of urine (green). After letting it sit for a week I then added it to two 1.2 cubic meter piles of compost that were bubbling away at about 68C (154F). This compost will be used to make no dig beds in the fall. So excited to convert to no dig and garden/farm more naturally. Thanks for all the info you provide in your videos. All the best my friend ☺

[@docbodholt2384]

They found evidence that the amazon basin was at one point heavily populated despite the ph of the soil. They found ample proof that they used exactly this technique for enriching the soil, on experimentation theysaw an increase of around 100 heads of wheat in a square yard/meter to 600 heads aftyer the act of charcolizing the soil. Don't tell Big Agro though, they'll ban it!! Great vid, keep educating the world my friend.

[@thatguychris5654]

They used Terra Preta, a mix of charcoal, terracotta pottery and human waste. This will last over 1000 years

[@docbodholt2384]

@@thatguychris5654 Any idea what the pottery was for?

[@thatguychris5654]

@Docbod holt Terracotta is awesome at absorbing, holding and slowly releasing moisture. You can replicate this effect by making little clay balls fired in a campfire.

[@docbodholt2384]

@@thatguychris5654 That is really useful, thank you for that? I'll be saving up all my terracota pots that I regularly break. Do you have any other great tips. Thank you again.

[@gardenlikeaviking]

fantastic information my friend thank you for sharing!!

[@ssmith5127]

I definitely gave this a happy thumbs up. I learned something today. I've been wanting biochar for my sandy yard. But fire hazard is high in my forest area. So I didn't want to burn anything. Now I know I can purchase a few bags and have the same benefits for a small cost. And since I no longer need to purchase fertilizer, I have the extra funds.😊. Thank you!!!

[@SilverSage1979]

Thumbs up 😊

[@Good4TheBodyGood4TheSoul]

You are a very vibrant, high energy being. I love your energy and the beard. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@kiptap4021]

Nice and easy methods, best bang for the buck enhancements. Wonderful set of gardening knowledge tools from this channel. Never fails to disappoint. One of my favorite channels.

[@gardenlikeaviking]

I appreciate your positive energy my friend thank you!

[@joejosa8985]

Hey man. I live in southern Florida. I’ve already used microbes saturated charcoal to cure my tree of rot and still got a lot of charcoal. I want to say that I also added the finely crushed charcoal to my grass it helped with the spotty areas with no grass. For a Sandy area, to add more life, big chucks of charcoal like fire pits mixed in around so all the minerals from everything I’m adding doesn’t all just seep below to the bottom. As I see with my grass, adding more charcoal helps with roots too.

[@lpmoron6258]

Wow with all these recipes I will look like a mad scientist with all the buckets sitting around. I love it!

[@CinnamonBear-xv4eq]

Me too haha!

[@kathyingram3061]

~Yes, i just bought 10 more buckets yesterday!~

[@steveo1006]

Listened to Albert Bates lecture on biochar several years ago. Be careful if you try to buy biochar. I did and added it to my new garden and after suboptimal production I inquired about what/how that inoculated the char with the microbe biology. Turns out they were selling char as biochar and that was the reason for poor garden performance. Caveat emptor! Will be making my own this winter.

[@chrismartin7579]

Two thoughts. First, making charcoal for biochar is relatively easy with the TLUD approach. Oxygen starved, the Top Lit Up Draft method keeps the carbon from oxidizing into CO2. I sent a sample to the NC state lab and using hardwoods as a base material, the charcoal I produced was 97%+ pure carbon, ~2% Calcium, and the rest trace minerals. I burn in 55 gallon drums and after a dozen burns I had, literally, a drum full of charcoal. Second, the I make the particle size small. Small means more surface area and better bio-activation. I've used a mid-sized screen in a small hammermill but pounding with a 4x4 post works too. My activation material is contents from a Johnson Su Bioreactor and 2 YO leaf mulch.

[@barbaraalexandriacowin6106]

Would it be possible to buy a bag of this from you? I would love to!

[@chrismartin7579]

@@barbaraalexandriacowin6106 I can send you a bag. Was is the way to get ahold of you?

[@BigWesLawns]

Dude! I literally need this right now. I was going to buy a 30" & a 55" steel drum and make a rhetort burner, and a hunk of chimney and get at it. Now I am going to Home Depot or somewhere nearby to get me a bag of that! We have the Royal Oak up here in Ontario! Just when I need it, God Provides. I am a rare type. I feel that as a lawncare guy, GRASS HAPPENS. I know we can grow food on tye space and should, but I can be the fool who believes that if your going to have grass, make it the healthiest grass it can be, and take care of the land its living on. Make it better than it was when you found it. The labor of love is easy when yu mean it. 🇨🇦👊🏻👨🏻‍🏭✨💖🙏 Thanks Nate for the frugal tips! I am so poor, that when the weatherman says its chilli outside? I go grab a bowl and head out!😅🤡😉👌🌞🙏🙏🙏

[@gardenlikeaviking]

you can still make the burner but this method will give you time and it works very well... I'm actually very happy to see an "earth conscious" lawn care specialist and I feel you are really onto something good so stay strong my friend!

[@BigWesLawns]

​@@gardenlikeaviking I went looking for it, and I was cussin for a minute there, nobody had anything for sale, then a kid stocking the shelf said Canadian Tire has charcoal, so I went there and they had the exact bag, and plenty of it people! $15.25 out the door. The bag is blue with a red circle, not red with a blue circle, must be the way they sepatate the Canadian and US shipments. Exciting! They had a bag thatbwas made in a biochar facility for $35 and it claimed to have a higher carbon content( than what?) I may buy some in the future to support the local company, but I think its hype at this point of my knowledge. Thanks again Sir! 🇨🇦👊🏻👨🏻‍🏭✨💖🙏🌞

[@ForestToFarm]

@@BigWesLawns I think the “higher carbon content “ would possibly indicate that the wood was more fully processed than other brands, maybe ha ha. I am sure a piece of wood does not go from wood to carbon instantly so to get it to complete carbon would surely take longer and more fuel than if you stopped processing when it reached an acceptable or usable level of carbon. Just a hunch but I could be wrong.

[@BigWesLawns]

​@@ForestToFarm yeah buddy, I think your correct. I found a few pieces of uncooked chunks. Tossed those aside for composter. Biochar makers most definitely take more care to make sure its cooking evenly and gassing off. They load the chamber correctly and have the densities and timing/temperature stuff all mathematic'd out. Probably worth what it costs to a non DIY type who just wants to buy it and add it. They could do worse I suppose right? I want to support folks like that, but cash is the limiter on getting things going now, so I may buy some down the road and chek it out.

[@RustyBobbins]

Have you looked into the I ground method of making char?

[@ScottAdams-cl2dk]

I think you should check the temperature that your hardwood lump charcoal is made at. Biochar is made at 500-600 degrees (if not higher) to ensure the VOC and other chemicals are burned out. It would be a good topic to discuss charcoal versus biochar for long term soil health and impact

[@rogerrains344]

Wholly affable, endlessly informative, & a refreshing voice on the future of (gardening) humanity. I’m losing sleep re-watching all the great videos. Love it! Thanks!

[@easygoindood]

Why only 60k subscribed!? This is pure gold! 🔥

[@braydschannel2077]

I keep a bucket of charcoal near my composter. I throw in a few scoops every couple of layers of materials. It has been working great for years. I like using the charcoal from burned brush-you get a nice variety of sizes, including powder which helps keep clay soil from form tight clumps.

[@owennelson5098]

This is awesome! I have been making charcoal for a few years, “charging” it with whatever I had on hand. Wasn’t sure how long it took so I was waiting way longer than 5 days! Thanks Nate, appreciate your knowledge and confidence.

[@gardenlikeaviking]

you're welcome my friend and yes many people think it needs to charge way longer than it actually does... the ferments we add to the bucket are already well broken down so they just need time to saturate into the material

[@martinjones6762]

I have got a Iron-heart wood burner which I only burn natural wood from windfalls from my wood nearby 👲I will try that out 👍thanks again for your videos 👍I always learn something new from you😀watching from England

[@laferriere6]

Thank you for this. About a year ago I made a 50 gallon barrels worth of biochar for the first time. Months ago I had it all soaking in a 200 gallon tub of rain water. In December I made my first LAB just to make it. I didn't have anything really growing so I dumped the whole thing in to the tub of biochar. Then I decided to add urine, weedwater fertilizer solution, several shovels of compost and and clumps of arborist chips that looked a lot like your mycelium rich leaf mold. It sat for months and basically turned into an algae rich bug and frog pond that I would stir up when I thought of it. A couple weeks ago I drained all of the fluids into the center of a newly planted banana circle. I thought my weird science project might have been a good enough inoculation so i have been adding it to my compost, sand mixture. It's probably only about a solo cup of biochar per gallon worth of compost. Instead of entire beds, for each plant I just dug out my sand, mixed it all together, refilled the hole and planted into it. It's too early to tell if this season was doomed from the start or not, but I have about 20 gallons of biochar left, 20 gal of weed water, and probably 150 pounds of nursery bought compost left over. I'm thinking I need to have a better plan for my fall garden and the 20+ fruit tress I still have in pots... I've been a youtube junkie lately and I really appreciate the direction and instruction you provide!! Thanks!

[@peter2327]

The "drive over it"-solution to crush the charcoal is truly american :D i did not think of that. But a neighbor a few houses down the road had a plate compactor at hand, which I could borrow for one hour. My particle size is 3..5 mm roughly 1/8th to 1/4 inch My first contact with biochar was 2005. I could talk to one professor on this topic from my home country. He recommended "up to 5mm particle size", that it shall be incorporated in the upper soil layer (otherwise it will swim away with the rainwater), and that I shall not use directly it after breaking but add it to the compost to charge it up. Also he told me to make the charcoal for myself, because the most important step is the "quench" when the ready, but still glowing charcoal is stopped with (ideally soft rain-)water - this breaks open all the pores and yields charcoal with the most useable cavities per volume and thus most surface area.

[@angelaleeds2798]

Great job explaining, excellent analogy -- "high-rise condominium"! for micro-organisms. :)

[@leenamyon1720]

This is super information, and it's free,, thanks friend. I suggest you do not use your bare hands to scoop up the biochar,, use a big scoop with a long handle, for fear bacteria may get caught in your finger nails.

[@reginaldanglin4264]

Asalammualaikum brother. Love the beard, don't cut, Mashallah. Great breakdown in simple terms. And I didn't know this for lump coal. Yes sir. Charged up my garden today. Inshallah. Thanks. Don't cut beard Bratha. Salam

[@pampotgieter7611]

OH AWESOME Nate, I have seen many other videos on how to prepare the Bio-char before you add to the garden. But man this is the BEST! So easy to follow your recipe and demonstration. I still have to find the fish to make the fish fermentation, and the chicken manure to make that too. Thank you SO much. Hail the Viking King of the kingdom of "Gardening like a Viking" You are the very BEST! You explained it so well! We are all so very fortunate to be taught by you, how to learn from mother nature.❤ The natural way! ,💚💚💚💚💚💚💚🇿🇦👍

[@garthwunsch]

If you have a fish store, they should have free waste. That’s where I get mine. You don’t need whole fish.

[@gardenlikeaviking]

I always appreciate your inspiring enthusiasm my friend thank you!!...

[@pampotgieter7611]

Thank you Nate, I will try that. ,,👍💚

[@pampotgieter7611]

@@gardenlikeaviking Freely give, free receive

[@anthonykillough2086]

I can’t stop watching your videos. I’m definitely making Biochar to add to my container garden

[@TuringisLearning]

I can't get the thought of a high rise full of anthropomorphized mycelium and bacteria and other microorganisms out of my head, but that is a great metaphor! Love that this method not only serves us now, but serves many generations of farmers.

[@michaelmendez-castillo9453]

I love your western revitalization of this ancient technique.

[@ebradley2306]

I made some homemade biochar with pure charcoal from the grocery store. (Don't need enough to warrant making my own charcoal.) Broke up the super big chunks and inoculated it with a soup of fish emulsion and worm castings. Buried the biochar in the bottom of the grow bags I am using for sweet potatoes. Will make more and bury the pieces in my raised beds.

[@gardenlikeaviking]

thats a great idea to bury it at the bottom of the sweet potato bag the roots will reach down there and love the nutrients!. thank you for sharing!

[@Electedsphinx40]

I like to soak my charcoal in my homemade liquid feed before adding into my compost piles

[@animalblood8257]

This man is a gift from God to the world

[@susanshelit]

Just realised from your explanation: This is why lava is such a good fertiliser.

[@carlacrawford9322]

Yesterday I was thrilled to find the exact bag of charcoal at my local store! Off to make some super charged biochar! Today I found some biochar on my walk and I collected an ice cream pail full of it. So exciting!

[@douglasnevill1273]

Thanks Nate I guess you could be called the bionic gardener.

[@gardenlikeaviking]

lol I'd accept that!

[@ButterflyPrayPeace7]

Currently watching the weather. Stay safe my friend.

[@lorrismith7366]

Wow you are good! I found you after the Pinball video. So glad I did!! Thank you

[@AnthonyDibiaseIdeas]

Thank you for simplifying and clarifying. Excellent.

[@christyallen7848]

Really like your straight forward tutorial don't need a lot of fluff just info 👍

[@sirrichard6685]

Finally got myself some hard wood lump and turned it into biochar. Charging it now. Thanks for the knowledge my friend

[@ModernPioneerHomesteader]

You can use this charcoal for actives charcoal for ingesting for 1st aid or for facials 😊

[@gardenlikeaviking]

really you can ingest this exact type?

[@ModernPioneerHomesteader]

@@gardenlikeaviking I looked up on how to make activated charcoal. I bought a few of these bags for that and to make water filter system with 5 gal buckets.

[@American_Liberty]

Archeological findings in south America discovered charred wood and bone meal in the rainforest from thousands of years ago called terra preta. Fascinating stuff!

[@AMan-xy3lx]

I am an avid viewer of gardening videos and YT just finally suggested your channel to me, I think I've watched 3 videos so far, but man! The info on those alone is amazing.

[@gardenlikeaviking]

thank you my friend and welcome!!

[@spaceface3122]

Subbed from the compost video... I know about biochar but this is a good video.

[@mjk9388]

@Garden Like a Viking - Rolling over the charcoal with a truck was a great idea...I always got the wood chipper out and put the chunks through that to get the right size, but I like your method even better. Word to the wise, always wear a mask when dealing with dry charcoal...you don't want that in your lungs.

[@johnnykay8261]

I just made my own Bio Char using home grown bamboo thanks for the information on how to super charge it. Cheers Nat.

[@StanWatt.]

Yep, recycled beer/water is an excellent way to add urea to the mix. It certainly does kick -start the compost pile. I add stinging nettle to my brews; I'm not sure if you have them across the pond, but here in NE Scotland we have ample amounts of the stuff.

[@yipmabaruya1148]

Good morning from Papua New Guinea. I enjoyed watching your contents.

[@KimWilliamsystunisia]

Making biochar this weekend. 😊

[@ButterBuns00]

Im loving it. Shout out for the bio-char inspired outfit!!!😂

[@gardenlikeaviking]

finally someone noticed!!!!!...thank you!

[@andrewrivera4609]

VERY GOOD VÍDEO NATE, THANK YOU VERY MUCHO, I REALLY APPRECIATTE, BEST REGARDS & WISHES FROM PERÚ

[@MullicanDesigns]

Dude where have you been! Thanks downloading this bad boy.

[@johnwilliams8184]

i love how u break it down . thank you

[@raulwhitefeather963]

Yes, you're correct. The word is "pyrolysis." Like "hydrolysis," & "electrolysis" except using heat to accomplish whatever chemical reaction.

[@valarielopez3515]

I ABSOLUTELY love your site! You share much wisdom my brother. Biochar and a more robust garden coming up!💖

[@johnliberty3647]

Last summer I experimented with biochar last summer and found the plants grown with the biochar did better in a drought. This year every plant is getting it and I moved to sandy Florida. I have the best garden on the street. I charge it with urine, azomite and kelp based fertilizers.

[@nic.h]

Water retention is another benefit of biochar

[@johnliberty3647]

I was puzzled by how biochar retained water because charcoal does suck up water like a sponge as much as other things will. Then it dawned on me, bacteria get completely hydrated when it rains and they colonize the biochar. Probably fungus too and other microbes. This keeps enough moisture and nutrients in a readily available form for plants to thrive during a drought. Biochar making plants hardy and strong during flash droughts I experienced the first summer I toyed around with biochar.

[@nic.h]

@@johnliberty3647 it's mainly to do with the surface area and residual pores that biochar has, and the impact that has on the flow of water in the rest of the medium the biochar is part of.

[@EngJSJ]

One of the greatest channels on KZbin Thanks man for the great info

[@aphillips5376]

I've been adding broken up charcoal to my hot compost bin with my chicken coop litter and garden/food waist. So looking to adding the bio filled compost to my garden in the fall.

[@KennygreenCAD]

Endless, perfect content from a master.

[@gardenlikeaviking]

I appreciate you my friend

[@Microx3]

Thank You for this Tutorial!

[@jerrybates5766]

So glad this info is available when needed. Running to catch up these systems.

[@curlsbynat9763]

I love smart men😻

[@generalnewsense5264]

Once again I thank you for the knowledge 💝 I am currently binge watching your videos 😂

[@longkochannel9726]

this video is really good, sir, it's very useful for farmers and planters, thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@TheRedverb]

Most people don’t have half that stuff. Great video as always. 👍

[@CarlosCastillo-eb2ke]

Awesome ecplanation. Congraulations for your teaching skills. Greetings from Honduras.

[@Davamir]

Okay......Thank you my friend, again. ✌🌿

[@thedude7319]

pre-wet the charcoal to reduce dust. or take a glass jar attach a small dc motor with it (some rubberbands) and marbles

[@susantow4632]

Nate so lucky to discovered your videos

[@williamkelly53]

Sharing of wisdom is the Heart's nature 🙏❤🖖!

[@TruthSeekerChik]

Really appreciate video. Using biochar for first time this summer. Thank you!! Very informative

[@TerryA_Gudde]

This is mind blowing my fren.... Lucky for me I have a bag of royal oak in the ol shed. thank you for the knowledge>

[@phoelix12]

Good video. Especially saying that you don’t want to grind it down to a powder

[@2Blackdiamond]

Amazing stuff! So much to learn. Thank you Nate!

[@temperancemoon8888]

Gonna try this and come back ❤

[@homegrowntone]

Best explanation ever...

[@advillwertz6585]

I've said it before and I will say it again. You are very knowledgeable and remind me of me with your techniques and application. Tell me more please sir.

[@gardenlikeaviking]

thank you for the enthusiasm my friend!!

[@VicShoup-ec6jb]

Try soaking the lump charcoal in compost tea and JMS for 24 hours before smashing into bits. It is easier to work with.

[@KalaEsso]

It’s perfectly fine to “powder” it, as the smaller the pieces of charcoal, the more surface area you get. You won’t be able to “powder” it smaller than the bacteria and nutrients collected here. Plus, when you charge this stuff you will almost always end up with some slurry, which is very valuable and should be treated just like anything else.

[@christinemoller-leff6425]

You 100% correct

[@MOHANKUMAR-qj4ce]

One of the best information I never none thanks brother

[@ja5onl6]

I make biochar using softwood as thats all we have in Montana. After I make the charcoal, I charge it in my compost pile, chicken coop, and use it in my barn for bedding with the goats and pigs. I spread a lot of mine on my fields with my manure spreader. I just found your channel, so I haven't had the opportunity to make all the fertilizers and urea yet.

[@fathimanadha7614]

We are using burnt rice husk as a biochar. It is normal practice in our country Sri Lanka.

[@timothydempsey3763]

How's your yield this season🐸

[@fathimanadha7614]

@@timothydempsey3763 I am just beginner of natural farmer. I will update in future soon.

[@jamesreid8638]

Biochar can be made from brush trimmings at home, by anoxic calcination of wood products, and the result is aood gas, a mixture of carbon monoxide, methane, and hydroxy-gas, which are, all flammable fuel sources. You can produce biochar and burnable fuel at the sme time. Nice method!

[@carolsloanes4938]

Very interesting presentation tks

[@ElimanGibba]

Good Lecture.

[@sharmanstevenson2698]

Really enjoyed 👌