Too Late for them! I already ran out and grabbed the exact bag he shows in the video! 💪😅😂😉👌 🇨🇦👊🏻👨🏻🏭💖🙏🌞
@ChadnRanda Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
This man? Even bears are afraid of him!
@swazilandirtbikes Жыл бұрын
'O.k. This is where it's at my friends'. 'Don't forget to supercharge!'
@porkchopexpress6969 Жыл бұрын
Seriously, who is after this dude?
@Darkfyre755 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
thank you for sharing!!
@GronVag Жыл бұрын
Wow😮
@nosequiters10 ай бұрын
not a sufficent sample size but still cool
@Darkfyre75510 ай бұрын
@@nosequiters of course! Didn't have enough money for many banana trees unfortunately, they're quite expensive and I'm not a scientist lol
@johnwilliams81846 ай бұрын
@@Darkfyre755 so easy to grow one just plant a banana in the compost
@davidcappaert8740 Жыл бұрын
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.
@lutvijahrnjic96704 ай бұрын
5 days seems too short of a time for inoculation so do you inoculate yours for 3 days only?
@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123 Жыл бұрын
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 KZfaq 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 !!!
@anacarrillo8328 Жыл бұрын
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.
@JohnDoe-tx6vz Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
thank you for the positive energy my friend and now you know exactly how to charge it!!
@gromlynne3550 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
thank you for the positive energy my friend!!
@willm581411 ай бұрын
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!
@williamodell8634 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@ivahihopeful Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
yes you can do it my friend no problem!!
@norseman9367 Жыл бұрын
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!
@user-jm7zj7ds5t10 ай бұрын
Good advice.
@scottmiller1916 Жыл бұрын
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
@ancesthntr Жыл бұрын
@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.
@justinbegin3827 Жыл бұрын
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.
@michaelsekalala8041 Жыл бұрын
Indeed God is great
@jesse4530 Жыл бұрын
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.
@stonerubber Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
@@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 Жыл бұрын
@@justinbegin3827 nice tip! I have 70% clay
@B30pt87 Жыл бұрын
@@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 Жыл бұрын
@@B30pt87 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b8ifi6um37Oqo3U.html Here is the video you are probably referring to.
@ssmith5127 Жыл бұрын
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!!!
@cowgirlinarizona13716 ай бұрын
Thumbs up 😊
@kiptap4021 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
I appreciate your positive energy my friend thank you!
@mizp1111 Жыл бұрын
Look at you! 60k plus followers now. Well done and deserved.
@gardenlikeaviking Жыл бұрын
thank you always for the support my friend!
@chrismartin7579 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Would it be possible to buy a bag of this from you? I would love to!
@chrismartin7579 Жыл бұрын
@@barbaraalexandriacowin6106 I can send you a bag. Was is the way to get ahold of you?
@TealJadeTurquoise1 Жыл бұрын
You are a very vibrant, high energy being. I love your energy and the beard. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
@pampotgieter7611 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
If you have a fish store, they should have free waste. That’s where I get mine. You don’t need whole fish.
@gardenlikeaviking Жыл бұрын
I always appreciate your inspiring enthusiasm my friend thank you!!...
@pampotgieter7611 Жыл бұрын
Thank you Nate, I will try that. ,,👍💚
@pampotgieter7611 Жыл бұрын
@@gardenlikeaviking Freely give, free receive
@rogerrains344 Жыл бұрын
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!
@owennelson5098 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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
@lpmoron6258 Жыл бұрын
Wow with all these recipes I will look like a mad scientist with all the buckets sitting around. I love it!
@CinnamonBear-xv4eq Жыл бұрын
Me too haha!
@docbodholt2384 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
They used Terra Preta, a mix of charcoal, terracotta pottery and human waste. This will last over 1000 years
@docbodholt2384 Жыл бұрын
@@thatguychris5654 Any idea what the pottery was for?
@thatguychris5654 Жыл бұрын
@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 Жыл бұрын
@@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 Жыл бұрын
fantastic information my friend thank you for sharing!!
@martinjones6762 Жыл бұрын
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
@Outlander929 Жыл бұрын
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 ☺
@TigerLilyGzzTLRoars Жыл бұрын
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!
@archie3537 Жыл бұрын
Learn something new everyday from the viking king,
@angelaleeds2798 Жыл бұрын
Great job explaining, excellent analogy -- "high-rise condominium"! for micro-organisms. :)
@AMan-xy3lx5 ай бұрын
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.
@gardenlikeaviking5 ай бұрын
thank you my friend and welcome!!
@easygoindood Жыл бұрын
Why only 60k subscribed!? This is pure gold! 🔥
@BigWesLawns Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
@@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 Жыл бұрын
@@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 Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@RustyBobbins4 ай бұрын
Have you looked into the I ground method of making char?
@joejosa898512 күн бұрын
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.
@anthonykillough20863 ай бұрын
I can’t stop watching your videos. I’m definitely making Biochar to add to my container garden
@steveo1006 Жыл бұрын
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.
@sirrichard6685 Жыл бұрын
Finally got myself some hard wood lump and turned it into biochar. Charging it now. Thanks for the knowledge my friend
@douglasnevill1273 Жыл бұрын
Thanks Nate I guess you could be called the bionic gardener.
@gardenlikeaviking Жыл бұрын
lol I'd accept that!
@carlacrawford9322 Жыл бұрын
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!
@ebradley2306 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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!
@advillwertz6585 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
thank you for the enthusiasm my friend!!
@EngJSJ Жыл бұрын
One of the greatest channels on KZfaq Thanks man for the great info
@user-wq3jp3qg1o Жыл бұрын
Love your videos Nate and I also love reading all the comments it’s like a 2 in one special. Thanks for all that you are...blessed
@johnnykay8261 Жыл бұрын
I just made my own Bio Char using home grown bamboo thanks for the information on how to super charge it. Cheers Nat.
@2Blackdiamond Жыл бұрын
Amazing stuff! So much to learn. Thank you Nate!
@peggysuehubbard95711 ай бұрын
Thank you! I've been researching this biochar and can completely understand the benefits but was still a bit unsure of the charging method. There is so much "stuff" out there on the subject. You spoke in language that I get and I really appreciate it. Thanks again!
@stellavw77725 ай бұрын
We are making our own here and we are inoculating it and selling it to our local greenhouses and our slogan is "Your Ticket To Garden Success" and "Nutrition Coming To Fruition". We do NOT make it so that cows fart less, lol. Yes, it "sequesters carbon" but we don't acquiesque to the climate bs. Thank you for teaching folks about this! We need to get the world healthy again!!...I, Stella and Kage at Prepper's Paradise Permaculture Gardens - (Prepper's Paradise Canada on you tube) appreciate you! We listen to you often. Keep up the great work and knowledge!❤
@gardenlikeaviking5 ай бұрын
Thank you for the positive energy my friend I appreciate you!!!
@stellavw77725 ай бұрын
@@gardenlikeaviking You are very appreciated too my friend! Have an awesome gardening experience this year!
@jerrybates57665 ай бұрын
So glad this info is available when needed. Running to catch up these systems.
@longkochannel9726 Жыл бұрын
this video is really good, sir, it's very useful for farmers and planters, thank you for sharing your knowledge.
@ja5onl6 Жыл бұрын
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.
@ModernPioneerHomesteader Жыл бұрын
You can use this charcoal for actives charcoal for ingesting for 1st aid or for facials 😊
@gardenlikeaviking Жыл бұрын
really you can ingest this exact type?
@ModernPioneerHomesteader Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@firmamentfarms4869 Жыл бұрын
I was happy to see you post this video, I've exhausted the rest of the biochar content on YT moons ago. Skillcult's playlist stands above the rest and his video on charcoal usage in early north america is FULL of cool information. Cheers to you and yours, thanks for your content! Always watching when you post new ones and love the long Q&A's as well.
@christyallen78485 ай бұрын
Really like your straight forward tutorial don't need a lot of fluff just info 👍
@Microx3 Жыл бұрын
Thank You for this Tutorial!
@fathimanadha7614 Жыл бұрын
We are using burnt rice husk as a biochar. It is normal practice in our country Sri Lanka.
@timothydempsey3763 Жыл бұрын
How's your yield this season🐸
@fathimanadha7614 Жыл бұрын
@@timothydempsey3763 I am just beginner of natural farmer. I will update in future soon.
@Electedsphinx40 Жыл бұрын
I like to soak my charcoal in my homemade liquid feed before adding into my compost piles
@valarielopez35156 ай бұрын
I ABSOLUTELY love your site! You share much wisdom my brother. Biochar and a more robust garden coming up!💖
@johnwilliams81846 ай бұрын
i love how u break it down . thank you
@TuringisLearning4 ай бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
I love your western revitalization of this ancient technique.
@andrewrivera4609 Жыл бұрын
VERY GOOD VÍDEO NATE, THANK YOU VERY MUCHO, I REALLY APPRECIATTE, BEST REGARDS & WISHES FROM PERÚ
@American_Liberty Жыл бұрын
Archeological findings in south America discovered charred wood and bone meal in the rainforest from thousands of years ago called terra preta. Fascinating stuff!
@bryantcolby4038 Жыл бұрын
Thank you Nate. I leaned a new 55 gallon drum at a 45 ish degree. It made perfect size charcoal from tree branches. You helped me tremendously. Hopefully this will help you or someone else in the viking tribe.
@deaconmma3048 Жыл бұрын
Viking - you are the garden GOAT my friend! TY 4 ALL the KNOWLEDGE!!!
@gardenlikeaviking Жыл бұрын
I appreciate the enthusiasm my friend!
@TruthSeekerChik5 ай бұрын
Really appreciate video. Using biochar for first time this summer. Thank you!! Very informative
@johnpaulhilton8329 Жыл бұрын
I was saving all my pistachio shells to make my own bio char because I was buying it but I use it for terrariums, aquariums, ponds and the garden so need to start my own because it’s gone really expensive and aquariums bio char needs changing every month so this video was helpful thank you (I want sure how to activate it with microbes) 👍
@CarlosCastillo-eb2ke11 ай бұрын
Awesome ecplanation. Congraulations for your teaching skills. Greetings from Honduras.
@laferriere63 ай бұрын
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!
@googletropcurieux8670 Жыл бұрын
I'm gonna do a poop based compost with charcoal as substrate You can make your own charcoal by picking red pieces of wood during a camp fire and drop it into water. That way I can pick the nice ones ^^
@abraham3901 Жыл бұрын
Great, glad to see more on the subject. We have a jora composter, and add our home made charcoal there. Remember you can biochar a lot of organic material, fish bone, pinecones, shells, etc. Pretty cool man, thanks for the video.
@reginaldanglin42643 ай бұрын
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
@susanshelit Жыл бұрын
Just realised from your explanation: This is why lava is such a good fertiliser.
@TheRedverb Жыл бұрын
Most people don’t have half that stuff. Great video as always. 👍
@spaceface312228 күн бұрын
Subbed from the compost video... I know about biochar but this is a good video.
@ADAWC Жыл бұрын
Your explanation about biochar is correct. Charcoal and Biochar are different. What you have is store-bought natural charcoal, not complete carbon, not biochar. Biochar needs a high temperature process over 1000℉ called pyrolysis. During the process, there is no smoke from the exhaust. Biochar is a lot lighter and has a crisp sound to the touch. Details on making biochar maybe searched on Geoff Lawton, Joel Salatin or Andrew Millison's permaculture channels. Biochar is safer and last longer
@gardenlikeaviking Жыл бұрын
yes my friend ultimately you are correct this is not the purest carbon that can be had thank you for pointing that out.... but to make it accessible and achievable for the average home gardener I know for absolute certain this stuff here works just fine... yes it can get better but I find its important to make things workable for the average person as well so for most people they would never be able to tell a difference between this and the purest form of biochar...
@evilroyslade249111 ай бұрын
I bought 6 bags of natural charcoal and discovered it was not complete pyrolysis. I will use the natural charcoal as my wood source and complete the pyrolysis. Hope it works.
@lilygonzales905 Жыл бұрын
I think this is my favorite of your videos. I am making tons of biochar for my soil. I hope that in a few years when I can't garden so intensively anymore (age/health), then the biochar will do the job for me! Hurrah for permanent fertilizer - my own Terra Preta :)
@gardenlikeaviking Жыл бұрын
yes my friend by doing the right things now you'll ensure the land is nice and fertile and relatively self sustaining in this!
@MullicanDesigns Жыл бұрын
Dude where have you been! Thanks downloading this bad boy.
@ButterflyPrayPeace7 Жыл бұрын
Currently watching the weather. Stay safe my friend.
@glassbackdiy3949 Жыл бұрын
Good talk cheers Nate. If you want a simple smokeless biochar burner that would work in your home setting look out for a beer keg, the handle holes are perfect size for primary/secondary air, drill some holes in the bottom, cut the top out leaving a 2" rim round the edge, then all you need is a flat metal top (doesn't need sealing) with a chimney between 4-6" dia, it's a TLUD design Top Lit Up Draft, light the top then put the lid on when it's going good, soon as the yellow flames stop you need to douse it or it'll turn to ash, works great completely smokeless, all the fuel needs to be dry and ~the same size for an even burn, dry woodchip works great, can send pics of mine if it helps.
@catrionalaidlay2116 Жыл бұрын
Yes plz!
@mildahubbard6698 Жыл бұрын
I would also like more info on this, please
@glassbackdiy3949 Жыл бұрын
@@mildahubbard6698 let me know where to send some pics and I'll send some with more details
@glassbackdiy3949 Жыл бұрын
@@catrionalaidlay2116 let me know where to send pics and I'll send some with more details
@kimberlyrogers9953 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing your extensive knowledge , mister And your video held my attention from start to finish , thanks for that too
@TSis76 Жыл бұрын
Great content as always. Thank you!
@leenamyon1720 Жыл бұрын
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.
@lorrismith7366 Жыл бұрын
Wow you are good! I found you after the Pinball video. So glad I did!! Thank you
@aphillips5376 Жыл бұрын
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.
@ButterBuns006 ай бұрын
Im loving it. Shout out for the bio-char inspired outfit!!!😂
@gardenlikeaviking6 ай бұрын
finally someone noticed!!!!!...thank you!
@peter23279 ай бұрын
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.
@yipmabaruya1148 Жыл бұрын
Good morning from Papua New Guinea. I enjoyed watching your contents.
@StanWatt.5 ай бұрын
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.
@lm1275 Жыл бұрын
Did you ever wonder why the evil ones have declared carbon as the enemy and are trying to remove it from the environment.....
@pietikke55985 ай бұрын
Well the so-called elites say it again and again that they think we are useless eaters. And the world is overpopulated and they want a stable 500 million of us locked up in mega smart city's. 😮 That is why they go after carbon the thing that gives us live and is only 0.04% in atmosphere. And the whole of humanity is responsible for 3% of that. If it comes below 0.02% plants start dying. So 100% they are trying to kill a lot of us.
@amonleeyewmann18922 ай бұрын
Because its great in the ground but can cause problems in the atmosphere in great quantities...
@lm12752 ай бұрын
@@amonleeyewmann1892 bs carbon increase results in growth explosion. It's a fertilizer and without it everything dies.
@JeshueMArcher2 ай бұрын
@amonleeyewmann1892 except there is no sound scientific proof that we are anywhere near that threshold.
@daviedodds3050 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant. I've been waiting for you to cover this topic. Cheers dude!
@warrenbeans8495 Жыл бұрын
Thank you. I just made an open air charcoal kiln. What ama do is use the smaller bits of left over charcoal and create biochar for my vegetable garden. #salute. #great_vid
@MOHANKUMAR-qj4ce10 ай бұрын
One of the best information I never none thanks brother
@thevagrowinggardener1898 Жыл бұрын
Awesome video friend!
@Kennygreen9b3 ай бұрын
Endless, perfect content from a master.
@gardenlikeaviking3 ай бұрын
I appreciate you my friend
@codysaunders7348 Жыл бұрын
Best video on biochar I've seen, well done
@jeremyhula931 Жыл бұрын
It's actually proven best to powder it or make it very very small granuals. But it's good to mix some different sizes in there. Powdered, charged biochar can cover a massive amount of garden area and make it produce greatly. This biology you're talking about is microscopic so that it can still live in the powdered charcoal. And the nutrients can stay there as well. What's your talking about when you say one in² of biochar when folded out can cover something amount of football fields or whatever. This is when you powder or crush it up as fine as possible throw a wood chipper after it's been soaking in a nutrient solution and then pulled out and dry for 2 days you can run it through a wood chipper. Watch Jack Spirco, The Survival Podcast. He goes into deep detail for this process, and he has several podcasts that go into detail about it with other people who are experts in it.
@denisespencer8000 Жыл бұрын
Good stuff but hard work. I use banana peel chopped and tea bags orange peel soaked for a few days. It goes round the roses and rhodedhendrons azaleas camelias. The birds eat most of it but i water down the liquid and it is sufficient to feed them. Very powerful
@homegrowntone11 ай бұрын
Best explanation ever...
@susantow4632 Жыл бұрын
Nate so lucky to discovered your videos
@relatedtowhat7980 Жыл бұрын
Your perspective and guidance is greatly appreciated 🤙