Store BioChar for 2000 years!

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Livingseeds Farm

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@sdara357 2 ай бұрын

Thank you, i'm so glad i found your channel.

@LivingseedsFarm 2 ай бұрын

Thank you. Glad to have you.

@pampotgieter7611 2 ай бұрын

WOW! I have only recently discovered your channel This is the second video I have watched of yours. I have watched many KZbin videos from overseas, learnt a lot from David the Good about the history of Bio-char and others. I liked the way you explained that there is a difference between Bio- char and charcoal. We only have a small garden, but I really love the idea of adding Bio-char to get the benefits. I am a very new to gardening, still learning and it has not been easy. We have had flooding, hail and resently snow. It has never snowed here before. We have only been in this house 3 years come Dec. A lady told my husband that she has live here for 63 years and it has never snowed here. The heavy snow distroyed the small green house and we had started to built a bigger one, it too was flattened. Looks like a mangled mess. Its been one helvia learning curve. But I am not giving up. Gardening is not for the faint hearted. Its just my husband and myself. Our daughter, son-in-law and grandson have helped us a lot. The weather has been crazy this year. The rain is very late. I hear that bio-char retains moisture in the soil. I use leaves for mulch. I love to experiment and try different ways of improving the soil. As I know the soil is key to a nutritionally dense food. So happy to find a South African KZbinr. Thank you for your very informative video with a South African sense of humour. 💚🌿💚🌿💚🌿💚🌿💚🌿💚🌿💚

@LivingseedsFarm 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for your support. Gardening is a constant learning experience, we are always find new and exciting things. Yes the weather has been crazy, not just here but all over. Blessings on a wet summer.

@pampotgieter7611 2 ай бұрын

@@LivingseedsFarm Thank You! Much love blessings. ♥️🤗♥️

@pampotgieter7611 11 күн бұрын

@@LivingseedsFarm I have just watched your video on making Bio-char again. Will it be possible to get the plans to make your mini Bio-char retort. My husband is willing to make one for me. But I need the plans. I have not found a way to make a mini Bio-char retort on the internet. They only have these huge drums for farmers etc. We have a small garden. I have an old bath which I use as an earthworm farm. I would love to add Bio-char to the mix, besides coffee grounds from the local Wimpy, cow dung, sheep dung and kitchen scraps. I get the cow and sheep manure from a new friend, she has cows, sheep and horses on her farm. I bought sheep manure from her already. A bull came visiting the complex and left some gifts all overt the grass for me. Which I gratefully went around and collected. I will be grateful if you can let me have the diagrams or plans to make a mini Bio-char retort. If that is ok with you. I am willing to pay for them. As I don't think your Maintenance man can make one for me at a price, as he must be a very busy person on your farm. Thank you Sean for all the videos you have made for us. Happy Christmas to you and your family and of course all your staff. And a Happy New Year 2025 🎉💥🙌🙏👍 🌿💚🌿 17:41

@KeithLittle-v8h 9 ай бұрын

Thank you. Can't wait to get started.very information

@LivingseedsFarm 9 ай бұрын

Best of luck!

@sunilmagan1651 9 ай бұрын

Thank you very informative. How often do you feed your crop or soil with bio char? Please explain how one gram of bio char covers 2000 square meters of the surface?

@teresamosewicka5469 9 ай бұрын

Very informative !!!. Thank you ❤

@LivingseedsFarm 9 ай бұрын

We put the activated biochar down 2-3 times in a growing season. The 2000 sqm is the surface area INSIDE 1 gram of quality biochar. The biochar is made of of a lattice of cells that have all been carbonised and has so many pores, the walls of which make up the surface area.

@WorldComposting 7 ай бұрын

That tiny TLUD looks great, do you have design plans? I'm looking for something smaller than the 55 gallon drums to try this out as I have a smaller yard.

@LivingseedsFarm 4 ай бұрын

We are looking at making them in larger quantities. It was a quick thrown together design, so unfortunately no plans.

@PetLoves 9 ай бұрын

You mentioned you can "char people".. in that case can you then char animal/beef or pork bones?

@LivingseedsFarm 9 ай бұрын

Absolutely. Anything carbon based can be charred. You just need it in the 600+ range to do it properly.

@gailhead2699 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for this informative video. Is there somewhere that we can purchase good quality biochar? I can't make my own. If you manage to get biochar, would you have to activate it on purchase?

@LivingseedsFarm 9 ай бұрын

We sell small quantities when we have spare. Just contact our office.

@teemack4382 9 ай бұрын

I'm trying to find something to break mine down to the same size as perlite so I can use it in place of perlite

@LivingseedsFarm 9 ай бұрын

You can try crushing it thought a steel mesh of the right size.

@philgavin 9 ай бұрын

@LivingseedsFarm Slightly off-topic, but related. I am thinking about a biogas digester. This produces cooking gas using waste products with anaerobic bacteria. I have only read that the spent residue from this process is an excellent organic fertilizer. This conflicts with compost tea, in which care must be taken to only make an aerobic product, whereas an anaerobic product must be avoided at all costs. Who has it wrong? Please comment on your understanding.

@LivingseedsFarm 9 ай бұрын

That is a bit out of my lane. Biogas is something we have looked at but it’s not a project we are planning in the short term. Just off the top of my head using the waste would be as a mulch and not a dig-in fertiliser which quickly makes it aerobic.

@philgavin 9 ай бұрын

@@LivingseedsFarm I have noted that some longer biogas makers viewed biogas as the secondary product and fertilizer as the main product. So it appears it is good stuff. I have also since found out that a biogas digester is dependent on being kept warm (30C optimum). The reason is that the anaerobic bacteria that produce methane will be substituted by the anaerobic bacteria that produce CO2 at lower temperatures. So maybe the apparent conflict doesn't exist because biodigester bacteria aren't the typical anaerobic bacteria.

@LivingseedsFarm 9 ай бұрын

Looking at South Africa's short term gas situation we will be running out of our current gas supply in the next 24 months, maybe I should get my biogas into gear.