HeyJaredThe Biochar Prepper
The information I share in The Biochar Handbook and in this Biochar Prepper substack should be of interest to anyone who gardens, farms, raises animals, manages forests, or manages waste, at any scale — from a household to a city.
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Results of My First Biochar Burn Piles (opens the original)
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I made my first biochar burn piles in the woods ten years ago. The site was a forest plantation with some merchantable timber on the federal land next to our small rural community in Southwest Oregon. The US Forest Service was planning a timber sale there, and the community was opposed to any logging on the site. A popular community trail ran through this forest, and it was right next to many homes. At that time, we had a district ranger who was interested in working with us to come up with a be
The Wildfire Threat and the Biochar Solution (opens the original)
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I first heard of biochar, then known only as “Terra Preta de Indio” back in 2006. Two years later, I had a position at the International Biochar Initiative working on communications and project development. Those were fun and exiting times where I got to meet and interact with the soil and climate scientists who were working on basic biochar research. I learned a tremendous amount about soil biology and chemistry and experimented with various methods of making charcoal in my backyard and using i
Summer: How It's Going in the Biochar Garden (opens the original)
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August is almost here and the first two months of summer have revealed what worked in the garden and what did not. Growing food is many things to me: A fun hobby where I get to be a science nerd.A source of high quality nutritious food that I could not buy in our local supermarket that keeps us healthy and out of the doctor’s office.A race against time to get ahead of the slow collapse of global supply chains by building local food sovereignty, in other words, serious prepping.I will report on m
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