Clare and I sought a different approach that would create a product from the harvested biomass, chipping and composting was a potential solution but would have been energy, time and space intensive. Conventional practice is to push these piles into larger piles and then light on fire. Last spring we began preparing ten or so acres for vineyard which produced about 200 piles of biomass. Our 2019 has been amazingly busy with so many things to tell – goats and a donkey! Fencing! Vineyard progress! A bull! And maybe the most amazing – biochar! Biochar? What the hell is biochar? Basically charcoal, but when produced in a specific way it has amazing properties that can have all sorts of applications, including agricultural.
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