SCIENCE TIME Let's talk biochar How it works, and what it will do for your garden and trees

SCIENCE TIME - Let's talk biochar. How it works, and what it will do for your garden and trees

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In this video we discuss the science behind biochar. How it works, why you want it in your garden. How it helps exchange gases, reduce compaction, store water inside your land while keeping plant roots from drowning, soil moisture profiles, boosting soil microbiology, boosting nutrient production because of it, and boosting nutrient capture. Reducing pollution, storing and sequestering carbon, supercharging your soil and your land with a legacy that will outlast you by a thousand years. Saving the planet with natural processes, a little science, and a whole lot of smart design.

If we fence in our gardens and preclude wildlife from getting in, we need to replace the functions that the wildlife perform in natural systems. Instead, if we allow nature in, accept that not all the food is ours, we can gain access to a free labor force of highly evolved mercenaries who will keep our pests under control.

If we design it correctly, we can establish the birds and insect predators on our lands early, so that we have a baseline population of pest killers in place the moment these pests begin to hatch. In this way we move from reactionary problem solving (problem scales until we notice it, then try to firefight), towards a preventative solution by design which stops the problem from ever existing.

Will we be perfect? No. But we can get pretty darn close. We will talk birds today, how to get them on your land, how to keep them safe, and how to keep them from drilling holes in your tomatoes, and instead focus on the bugs that you want them to eat.

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