Variations on the Pennsylvania Biochar Kiln
PLEASE NOTE: This post is a draft. I have not yet built this kiln but I have purchased the steel and will build it this May. So, I have not tested the below drawings. Use…
Category: Horticulture Media & Soil Amendments
Protected: A Primer on Formulating Horticultural Container Media from Sustainable Substrates
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A Guide to Assembling a Large Container for a Biologically-Intensive, High-Production, Sun-Grown Horticulture
Dr. Richard Freeman This guide provides step-by-stem instructions for setting up a 10-gallon grow bag using a zonal system (layers and spikes) for producing a high production plant such as Cannabis sativa (marijuana) or Solanum…
Protected: A Guide to Making Fertigation Solutions for a Biologically-Intense Container Horticulture
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A Guide to Formulating a Biologically-Intensive Horticultural Container Media from Sustainable Substrates
Dr. Richard Freeman This guide provides instructions to formulate a high-production, biologically-intensive horticultural container media using sustainable resources. The intended audience includes urban horticultural operations seeking to maximize production of sun-grown crops in limited space…
Instructions for Building a Sub-Irrigated Raised Bed
Philip Small, Soil Scientist, CPSS These brief instructions provide a basic description of a sub-irrigated raised bed based on a design demonstrated to work on the author’s site which has prolific sucker sprouting from hard…
Biocharring using a kontiki biochar kiln, rick (stacked) style — a pictorial
Dr. Richard Freeman
Using a top-lit updraft “conservation burn” to transform old forest residue (pine slash) into biochar in the wildland-urban interface – Pictorial
Dr. Richard Freeman The biochar process demonstrated with these photos yielded about 6 cubic feet of good quality char. The wood came from an old forest slash pile near a residential site in the wildland-urban…
Blending High-Performance Horticulture Media with Renewable Substrates
Richard Freeman, Designed Ecosystems For high-performance horticulture, I prefer to replace the standard peat-lite (various combinations of peatmoss and perlite) with an aerated blend of aggregates and fibers made from renewable resources. This blend is…
The “Conservation” burn: An easy way to transform slash to biochar using the top-lit up-draft approach
Richard Freeman, Designed Ecosystems This charring technique is a relatively easy and quick way to char a large amount of forest residue wood, also known as “slash.” It combines roughly sorting the wood by diameter,…