farmblog towards actually sustainable farming in Ahualoa

September 26, 2010

Farm biochar flowchart

Filed under: biochar,chickens,crops,food — ben @ 9:11 am

How does biochar fits into our farm?  I scribbled a flowchart onto paper, and today put it into the computer; it looks like this:

Ideally, it’s a continuously flowing cycle; there is no “waste” and no need for unsustainable inputs; that’s the goal.  The chickens provide meat and eggs to the humans, and poop to the compost cycle; the biochar stabilizes the nutrients in the urine and compost, making them plant-available longer.  You can see how the compost pile is the engine in the middle of everything.

2 Comments »

  1. Love the flow chart. Lets hope we get the small, economic CHP systems available soon that your chart has an energy loop.
    Regards, Trevor

    Comment by Trevor — September 27, 2010 @ 12:23 pm

  2. You want to know all the secrets about biochar ?
    This book will help !

    http://www.biochar-books.com

    Here practice and theory merge under a single cover of “The Biochar Revolution” and reveals hidden secrets of science called Biochar

    Comment by new_biochar_land — January 24, 2011 @ 5:07 am

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Leave a comment

Powered by WordPress