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📖 Author of The Biochar Handbook
🔥 Inventor of the Ring of Fire biochar kiln
👩🏻‍🌾 Oregon homesteader growing food in my biochar garden
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What IS biochar, really? 🤔
Let me break it down for you by @kelpie.wilson

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a month ago

Thinking about making your own biochar?
Start small. Keep it simple. Experiment.

Use what you already have - your local feedstocks, compost ingredients, soil, and the plants you love to grow. Make a batch. Compost it. Test it out in pots or garden beds. See what works best for you.

The biggest misconception? That there’s one type of biochar and one perfect application rate. There isn’t! Every biochar is different. Every garden is different.

If you want step-by-step guidance, tips, and proven experiments to try, you’ll find it all in my book:
📖 The Biochar Handbook: A Practical Guide to Making and Using Bioactivated Charcoal by Kelpie Wilson.

✨ Grab your copy today - link in bio! by @kelpie.wilson

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Supercharge your soil - without guessing, wasting time, or burning wrong.

This self-paced biochar course teaches you how to turn waste into water-holding, fertility-boosting, carbon-sequestering soil.

🔥 20+ hours of expert video training
🎁 9 field-tested bonuses
⏳ Learn at your pace, apply with confidence
✅ One proven step-by-step system taught by Kelpie Wilson

💥 What You Get (Total Value: $2,076)

📘 10+ hours of modular expert training $400
💬 10+ hours of Q&A sessions with students like you $300
📦 9 bonuses worth $1,376, including:
DIY kiln plans
Biochar composting and charging recipes
ROI calculators and budget models
Field-tested application guides
Plant trial & testing templates

All for just $299

👉 Link in bio to enroll and start building better soil today.

#biochar #regenerativesoil #soilhealth #homesteading #composting #landrestoration #organicfarming #regenerativeagriculture by @kelpie.wilson

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This is what a good burn pile looks like.

Built by Grayback Forestry, who honestly build the best piles I’ve seen. The logs are stacked tight and parallel so the pile holds its heat. A dry kindling pocket in the middle means quick flame and a clean burn. The big logs stay on the ground to feed the soil, so there’s no extra smoke from burning them.

A pile like this burns hot and clean and leaves glowing coals you can put out and save as biochar. It should give us at least 100 pounds from a pile just 5 feet tall.

📖 More on pile burning in The Biochar Handbook, (link in bio)

#biochar #pileburning #forestry #soilhealth #thebiocharhandbook by @kelpie.wilson

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What does it mean to “charge” your biochar?

Fresh biochar is very absorptive. Put it in the soil raw and it will soak up nutrients your plants need. Charging fills it with nutrients first.

A few ways to do it:
→ Mix it into your compost
→ Soak it in liquid fertilizer, like fish hydrolysate
→ Use urine. It’s full of nutrients, and it’s free.

#biochar #soilhealth #compost #regenerativeagriculture #gardeningtips by @kelpie.wilson

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Biochar doesn’t break down. It builds up in your soil every time you add it, so don’t put it all in at once.

If you add a lot in one go, it can hold onto too much nitrogen and your plants go short in the first year. The better way is to add a little every time you fertilize or amend your beds.

How do you add biochar to your beds?

#biochar #soilhealth #regenerativeliving by @kelpie.wilson

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We made these biochar burn piles in our local community forest 10 years ago. Here’s what the ground looks like now.

The soil is rich and black, and you can still see little chunks of char in it. If this had been a regular burn pile, there would be nothing but ash and bare minerals, and those sites can take a long time to recover.

This burn pile scar isn’t a scar at all. It’s healthy soil that blends right in with the rest of the forest understory.
That’s why we make biochar burn piles. by @kelpie.wilson

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18 days ago

Biochar isn’t cheap, so start small. Buy one bag, try it in a few pots or a single bed, and watch what happens. If you like the results, buy in bulk or learn to make your own.

The Biochar Handbook covers how to make it and use it well. Link in bio.

#biochar #soilhealth #gardening #regenerativeliving by @kelpie.wilson

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How much biochar goes into a raised bed? 🍃🌱🌿🪴 and how often do you need to add more?
Here i answer this FAQ!! by @kelpie.wilson

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A commonly asked question😁
What material do you think works best to make biochar? by @kelpie.wilson

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I have been working with biochar since 2006. In all that time the industry has grown slowly, waiting for the one application that would make it take off.

I think wildfire is it.

Over the same twenty years we have watched fires move out of the forest and into our towns. Santa Rosa in 2017. Paradise in 2018. Oregon in 2020.

The fuel that carries those fires is the same material we char. Thin it, burn it in a kiln on site, and put it back in the ground as soil that holds water.

The problem and the solution are the same material.

Full post on The Biochar Prepper. Link in bio. by @kelpie.wilson

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2 months ago

My Biochar Garden Harvest! 🥦🥬🍅🫚🫜
Interested to learn more about growing your own food with soil that’s rich in life & biochar?😍
Grab a copy of my Biochar Handbook (links in bio) by @kelpie.wilson

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