{"id":461,"date":"2011-11-10T10:26:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T20:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/?p=461"},"modified":"2011-11-10T10:26:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T20:26:04","slug":"biochar-and-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/2011\/11\/biochar-and-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Biochar and Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the month of September 2011 back on the farm, getting it into shape and making batches of biochar. \u00a0At the end of the month i took a truckload of the char down to Josiah&#8217;s biochar operation in Puna, where<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/lQLf1NypbHM\"> it was inoculated<\/a> and ground up. \u00a0Back at the farm, the living char was spread all over, especially in the tea field.<\/p>\n<p>To date, there has only been two studies of biochar on tea that i know of: some Japanese work back in 1997-2003, and my own postings on this blog. \u00a0Today, i heard of a third study:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dilmahconservation.org\/news-and-articles\/using-biochar-to-improve-soil-health-and-leaf-production-at-tea-plantations-in-sri-lanka\/\">Using Biochar to Improve Soil Health and Leaf Production at Tea Plantations in Sri Lanka<\/a>. \u00a0It&#8217;s early, but very positive, just as with the studies here and in Japan.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lQLf1NypbHM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the month of September 2011 back on the farm, getting it into shape and making batches of biochar. \u00a0At 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. \u00a0Back at the farm, the living char was [&hellip;]<\/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-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biochar","category-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}