HeyJaredChar Chit Chat
Char Chit Chat is created by Dylan Graves and explores char in New Zealand and beyond. The podcast aims to interview a range of people involved in biochar, activated charcoal, carbon anodes, and so on.
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- Aug 22, 2026
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- Jul 18, 2026
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CCC S2E13 with Amanda Currie (Tinwald Farm) (opens the original)
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Episode 13 of the Char Chit Chat with Amanda from Tinwald Farm covered a lot of cool stuff. I feel like more women are needed in the world to run farms so that they become way more connected with the living systems that they are part of. Amanda farms regeneratively near Cromwell where her challenges are improving degraded soils and reducing inputs. She is doing this by breeding and applying microbes at scale and incorporating biochar into various aspects of the farm. Amanda has studied extensive
CCC S2E12 with Greg Hart (Mangarara Farm) (opens the original)
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Episode 12 features well known regenerative farmer Greg Hart from Mangarara Farm in the Hawkes Bay region. Dylan has known about Greg and his tree planting for many years and met Greg at the Underground Festival in 2025 after he attended his biochar workshop. It's great that Greg is now seeing the benefits of biochar to his farming systems and he is an excellent advocate for its widespread adoption. Greg talks about his farming journey and his move towards exploring better ways of raising animal
CCC S2E11 with Shakēd From (opens the original)
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Shakēd is involved in a large variety of endeavours and we talk about these for awhile before biochar comes up, but hopefully you will still find it all interesting! We chat about a 3 year black soldier fly trial using food waste to make fertiliser and high protein animal food, gold mining awareness and activism , local resilience and education through The Basket Hauraki organisation, and of course about biochar at home at the intentional community where Shakēd and his family live ( https://www.
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