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		<title>Biochar and Tea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent the month of September 2011 back on the farm, getting it into shape and making batches of biochar.  At the end of the month i took a truckload of the char down to Josiah&#8217;s biochar operation in Puna, where it was inoculated and ground up.  Back at the farm, the living char was [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2009/04/tea-and-biochar/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Tea and biochar!'>Tea and biochar!</a></li>
<li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2008/03/biochar-fix-global-warming-and-grow-more-food/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Biochar &#8211; offset global warming AND grow more food'>Biochar &#8211; offset global warming AND grow more food</a></li>
<li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2009/03/biochar-news-terroir-local-ag-collapse-stoves/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Biochar news, terroir, local ag, collapse, stoves'>Biochar news, terroir, local ag, collapse, stoves</a></li>
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		<link>http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2011/11/biochar-and-tea/</link>
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		<title>See our tea in Google StreetView</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We live in a very rural, remote location &#8211; which is why it&#8217;s so surprising that Google actually got around to driving our neighborhood &#8211; but they did.  You can even see the bottom part of our tea field clearly from the road, since the camera on the Google van is a bit higher than [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2007/01/tea-pests-and-diseases/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Tea pests and diseases'>Tea pests and diseases</a></li>
<li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2008/12/latest-tea-cuttings/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Latest tea cuttings &#8211; at 3 months'>Latest tea cuttings &#8211; at 3 months</a></li>
<li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2008/04/tea-trouble-tree-roots/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Tea trouble: tree roots?'>Tea trouble: tree roots?</a></li>
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		<link>http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2010/09/streetview/</link>
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		<title>Farm biochar flowchart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Deb asked me one day to write something about how biochar fits into our farm.  I scribbled a flowchart onto paper, and today put it into the computer; it looks like this: Ideally, it&#8217;s a continuously flowing cycle; there is no &#8220;waste&#8221; and no need for unsustainable inputs; that&#8217;s the goal.  The chickens provide meat [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2008/03/biochar-fix-global-warming-and-grow-more-food/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Biochar &#8211; offset global warming AND grow more food'>Biochar &#8211; offset global warming AND grow more food</a></li>
<li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2009/06/biochar-update/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Biochar update'>Biochar update</a></li>
<li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2010/02/farm-visit/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Farm visit'>Farm visit</a></li>
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		<link>http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2010/09/farm-biochar-flowchart/</link>
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		<title>New document on Tea in Hawai&#8217;i</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The full name of the document is &#8220;Specialty Crops for Pacific Island Agroforestry: Farm and Forestry Production and Marketing Profile for Tea (Camellia sinensis)&#8221;.  It&#8217;s online at agroforestry.net (or directly to the PDF). I contributed a bit to the document, with some reviewing, an illustration of using ginger as a mulch, and some notes on [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2008/10/hawaii-island-homegrown-food-self-reliance-workshop/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Hawai&#8217;i Island Homegrown Food Self-Reliance Workshop'>Hawai&#8217;i Island Homegrown Food Self-Reliance Workshop</a></li>
<li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2009/09/second-tea-harvest/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Second tea harvest'>Second tea harvest</a></li>
<li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2009/01/tea-cuttings-at-4-months/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Tea cuttings &#8211; at 4 months'>Tea cuttings &#8211; at 4 months</a></li>
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		<link>http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2010/08/new-document-on-tea-in-hawaii/</link>
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		<title>Biochar: from kiln to pit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those of you following the biochar-hawaii list know that i&#8217;ve stopped using my kiln, and am now focused on making biochar in a pit. This is both for reasons of scalability and wear; my 55-gal steel drum kiln/retort could only make ~23-gal of char, and the surrounding kiln blocks cracked from repeated heating. Hence, a [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2010/05/biochar/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Biochar kiln progress'>Biochar kiln progress</a></li>
<li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2010/04/biochar1/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Biochar retort, experimental design, first trial run'>Biochar retort, experimental design, first trial run</a></li>
<li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2009/03/biochar-news-terroir-local-ag-collapse-stoves/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Biochar news, terroir, local ag, collapse, stoves'>Biochar news, terroir, local ag, collapse, stoves</a></li>
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		<link>http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2010/08/biochar-from-kiln-to-pit/</link>
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		<title>Sunflowers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of what i&#8217;ve been up to on the farm recently relates to biochar, but to keep this from becoming an all-biochar blog, here&#8217;s a bit about the garden. I grew a patch of sunflowers this summer, planted mid-April. I needed to use row covers, to protect the seeds and sprouts from birds, until the [...]


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<li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2007/05/tomato-and-fava-update/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Tomato and Fava update'>Tomato and Fava update</a></li>
<li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2007/10/cover-crop-seeds/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Cover crop seeds'>Cover crop seeds</a></li>
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		<link>http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2010/07/sunflowers/</link>
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		<title>Biochar kiln progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently did a second and third burn in my biochar kiln, tweaking each time. The story is best told in pictures: Upon detailed inspection, the April test burn actually gave good results. Four white buckets are completely charred material, two orange buckets incomplete, one mixed and one of material from the surrounding fire. Completely [...]


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<li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2010/04/biochar1/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Biochar retort, experimental design, first trial run'>Biochar retort, experimental design, first trial run</a></li>
<li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2008/03/biochar-fix-global-warming-and-grow-more-food/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Biochar &#8211; offset global warming AND grow more food'>Biochar &#8211; offset global warming AND grow more food</a></li>
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		<link>http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2010/05/biochar/</link>
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		<title>Tea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long time since we&#8217;ve blogged about tea. The field has been growing exceedingly well, particular in the wet wet weather which stayed wet until mid-April this year. Tea loves rain! Our February 22 harvest, a full-bodied oolong, was announced on facebook and did well. The May 1 harvest experienced difficult conditions, surprisingly [...]


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<li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2009/09/second-tea-harvest/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Second tea harvest'>Second tea harvest</a></li>
<li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2010/08/new-document-on-tea-in-hawaii/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: New document on Tea in Hawai&#8217;i'>New document on Tea in Hawai&#8217;i</a></li>
</ol>]]></description>
		<link>http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2010/05/tea/</link>
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		<title>UBI biochar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a followup to my last biochar post, i was sent the following document from Karl Frogner of UBI. Karl asked me to make it available, so i&#8217;ve put it here: Biochar Ovens, until UBI has a place for it on their own site. It describes experiments conducted in Mongolia on making biochar in a [...]


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<li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2009/04/tea-and-biochar/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Tea and biochar!'>Tea and biochar!</a></li>
<li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2008/03/biochar-fix-global-warming-and-grow-more-food/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Biochar &#8211; offset global warming AND grow more food'>Biochar &#8211; offset global warming AND grow more food</a></li>
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		<link>http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2010/04/ubi-biochar/</link>
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		<title>Biochar retort, experimental design, first trial run</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friends Josiah and Jay down in Puna are producing biochar using a classic pit method, which seems to work well. I may end up making char that way as well, but there is some criticism on the biochar list of open burns, saying that emissions aren&#8217;t fully combusted and carbon yield is low, recommending [...]


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<li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2010/05/biochar/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Biochar kiln progress'>Biochar kiln progress</a></li>
<li><a href='http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2008/03/biochar-fix-global-warming-and-grow-more-food/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Biochar &#8211; offset global warming AND grow more food'>Biochar &#8211; offset global warming AND grow more food</a></li>
</ol>]]></description>
		<link>http://ahualoa.net/eggsntea/2010/04/biochar1/</link>
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