A Growing Concern
I'm still looking for an easy clean way to make large quantities of biochar for my garden. Ideally I'd like to turn the woody brush that accumulates throughout the year, and that's too slow to compost, into char for the garden. This will probably take the form of a couple of barrels arranged into a [...]
I present here the results of a small trial I did last summer that combined a couple of my interests at the time. I had noticed the presence of large numbers of symphylans, small centipede-like invertebrates, in the garden. I was also having more trouble than usual with germination of seeds - spinach, carrots, beets. Symphylans travel [...]
By Gary Rondeau (Update: 6/28/10 -- The Seneca co-generation plant is presently under construction. As far as I know, they have no plans to make biochar. This is too bad. I wrote the following article about a year ago when their plans were less fixed in concrete. GR) Future energy needs should be met with an [...]
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