{"id":249,"date":"2010-01-02T21:29:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T07:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/eggsntea\/?p=249"},"modified":"2010-01-02T21:29:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T07:29:18","slug":"farm-update-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2010\/01\/farm-update-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm update, tea, biochar sweet potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tea: <\/strong>We did our third <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/teafarm\/tea.html\">tea harvest<\/a> on November 30, processed as a green tea.\u00a0 We have actual packaging now with a logo and label.\u00a0 Several people bought it to give as a holiday gift.\u00a0 As our first green, it was delicate and floral and nice, and it sold out quickly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biochar:<\/strong> the first solid results are in.\u00a0 Test 1 (green beans) didn&#8217;t work well as plants varied widely within each plot.\u00a0 Test 2 (popcorn) showed promise with the char plots growing better, but heavy rains this fall prevented any of the plots from maturing to compare yield.\u00a0 Test 4 (taro) is still in progress as taro grows slowly at our elevation.\u00a0 Test 3 (sweet potatoes) was harvested yesterday:<\/p>\n<p>8 plants, control: 13.8 lbs<br \/>\n8 plants, with char and IMO: 21.2 lbs<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s around 50% more tuber, and here&#8217;s the picture, control on the left:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/-tFmT7I5iiEWwEt0WYqpMw?feat=embedwebsite\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_5SfuxEG63Y4\/Sz2JnPejceI\/AAAAAAAACHc\/4cYAUC8NvKY\/s400\/DSC06838.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This corresponds what Jay in Puna has reported on his use of biochar with hawaiian food sustainability (see <a href=\"http:\/\/sensiblesimplicity.lefora.com\/2009\/03\/23\/biochar\/\">biochar on the Sensible Simplicity forum<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tea: We did our third tea harvest on November 30, processed as a green tea.\u00a0 We have actual packaging now with a logo and label.\u00a0 Several people bought it to give as a holiday gift.\u00a0 As our first green, it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2010\/01\/farm-update-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biochar","category-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}