My husband has been making biochar. The plan is to give it to our neighbor to use under her chicken bedding, then it gets returned to us with the addition of chickenpoop to then get added to his enormous compost pile. I am thinking I will try adding some, pre chicken stage, to my mix. We are in the process of clearing land and have been moving fires as we go along. Lots of ash and charcoal.
It's sort of like me buying pumice for big bucks. It depends on your location what is available inexpensively. I would like to get small stone from the quarry here, but it's limestone and would change the PH, so I buy chicken grit.
Our woodstove ash goes on my vegetable garden and flower beds along with the small charcoal pieces. Since the husband has been on a soil amendment mission, much of what used to make it into my compost tumbler is now on the ever growing mountain of compost to be used on the pasture. Never thought I would have to fight for carbon.....
