SA Biochar Works by Greg Marlu

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Biochar soil conditioner. Its been known and used for thousands of years. It can increase yields and sequester carbon. Its time has come. I love this planet.

It feels like home. The time has come to take stock of the impact we people are having on it. To actually care for it. The damage we have inflicted is huge and our response needs to reflect that. As a drop in her oceans I can only hope to achieve so much, which is why I aim for maximum effect. A statement I came across recently on the International Biochar Initiative website: "Biochar is the only

proven currently available technology for long term removal of atmospheric CO2"
Biochar will also help in our endeavour to feed an increasing population. Sounds good to me.

08/11/2019

I have had a really interesting development recently. A Chinese company wants to register 'sabiocharworks' domain names in China. The man in charge of the registry over there has been in touch with me to ask if I am associated with them, and when I said 'No' advised the Chinese Co. to find another name. They don't want to so he advised me I could register them myself (as the original owner) so they can't. I'm a bit out of my depth here; international intrigue and all, but don't want my domain name to be taken over.... Watch this space.

28/03/2019

FB keeps prompting me to do another post incase people forget who I am so here goes. I will do an update on my citrus trees in pots, one at a time. The navel that surprised me with so many flowers set two fruit which I sadly, accidentally knocked off. However, it went into a phase of new growth and is currently looking fantastic. I have fed everything with composted chicken manure twice and they have responded well.

29/11/2018

My latest experiment has really blown me away so far. I had three citrus trees in the garden that weren't doing well; totally the wrong place for them, so I decided to put them in big pots. Following on from the redgum seedling that did so well with a tiny biochar-rich root ball, I went for 65% biochar and 35% compost, soil and rock dust. That's two-thirds charcoal. Citrus don't like their roots disturbed so I expected a long period of 'settle in', but they went crazy. Within months, as spring hit the two youngest trees were covered in flowers. I also put a finger lime and persimmon in pots and the finger lime flowered profusely too. I'll need to feed everything regularly, and I have no idea how they will handle ten years or more in the pot, but so far I am amazed at how well everything is doing.

11/10/2018

I was bagging up biochar for the upcoming ABC Gardener's Market and realized it was a prime opportunity to put stuff on FB. Its been so long; I'm really not a media person, but here it is anyway.
My new bag jig beside the biochar stock-pile, and the fruits of my labour.

02/04/2018

Soo long since I posted anything... Its autumn change over time in the vegie garden so I did the rounds with the camera. Beetroot doing amazingly well, beens and self sown lettuce seedlings, new bed of garlic just in, compost made to clean the place up, drum of comfry liquid fertilizer, general garden shot, strawberry guava, and giant silverbeet with asparagus fern behind. Needless to say nearly everything incorporates biochar. Raised beds vary in %; from about 10% to about 50%. All doing well.

23/09/2017

I've written previously about being despondent at the lack of interest in biochar. Recently I've come to a new position; instead of stockpiling for customers every kiln load I make goes straight to MY garden. Hahaha. Watch with envy. Quenching always produces a lot of steam.

25/07/2017

I'm feeling a bit despondent. Biochar has the potential to tackle two of mankind's issues, CO2 and food production and yet so few are interested. It is expensive, reflecting the effort it takes to make, but even so..... Add to that I think my website has been hacked. I can't access it at all. Just as well I still enjoy the challenge of firing a kiln into the night.

30/05/2017

I fired the last of the woodchip today. What could have been a difficult kiln with moisture actually went OK. So relieved. The last batch of char had some non burnt stuff in it. Far from being a disaster, that lot goes straight into the wheelbarrow and up to my garden. Any excuse.

17/05/2017

Been firing drum kilns every chance I get before things get wet enough to make it hard. The change of colour on the side of the drum shows where the flame has reached.

27/04/2017

I had an avocado seedling appear in one of my raised beds so I transplanted it to a better spot. An article on International Biochar Initiative website tells of trials with biochar and avocado trees bringing great results so I decided to give this little tree the best I could. A full wheelbarrow of char went in to the circle I dug around the tree. Tree certainly looks happy at the moment.

13/04/2017

Showing off my fancy new sign at the recent ABC Gardener's Market in Adelaide.

Address

104B Cosgrove Road
Macclesfield, SA
5153

Telephone

+61407610294

Website

http://www.sabiocharworks.com.au/

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