Char Chit Chat

Episode 11 of Char Chit Chat features a chat with Dale from the Bay of Plenty area of New Zealand. Dale is an ecologist with a strong interest in tree systems and biochar. We delve into his hands-on, low budget methods of making biochar from tree branches on the family farm. Dale has started his own business called Rivendale Wood where he sells products from the treed landscape of the farm. We als...

Episode 10 (into the double digits!) is with John from Paekākāriki on the Kāpiti Coast. We chat about his discovery and immediate fixation with biochar around 2020 and then the formation of a local char group as an offshoot of the community gardens . CharPae applied for grants from local council to get the gear to go and demonstrate and educate about biochar in the community. Something all council...

Dylan chats with Helen Dew (now 87) who featured in the documentary called Being the Change at 85 . Helen speaks with conviction about how important healthy soil is, and how biochar, bokashi, compost, and mulch in combination all help soil health. We talk about her upcoming autobiography and her plan for a natural burial as well as an alternative to the current, but unnecessary economic growth par...

Klaus and his family run PermaDynamics Farm and Education up in Northland and we chat about his long history with biochar and agroforestry. Permaculture comes up too. I really recommend having a look through their website after the podcast and also seeing what is on offer on their youtube channel. They offer a paid educational service helping people to learn about Syntropics as well as a planning...

Cornelia (and Kai) run KoruKai Herb Farm in Banks Peninsular, near Christchurch. We had an excellent chat about how they make and use biochar for their animals, compost toilet, worm product, and composting in general. Also, about their homesteading and small home business selling herb related products as well as live compost worms! Resources mentioned: Phyto Farm : bringing plant medicine back to...

Wow - what a great project Betsy has going on - City to Farm is all about collecting food resources in the city and using it to build soil on a banana farm! The project is on a mission to see if Terra Preta can be created and how it long it will take as well as educating primary school students about biochar and composting food scraps. The episode features the excellent video by Nicholas Monk call...

Ben is known as Dr Compost and works in education, landscape design, permaculture, and with biochar. He is also treasurer for Biochar Network New Zealand . We chat about who Ben is, what he does, and heaps about his biochar passion. Links to topics mentioned: Wanaka Wastebusters Dr Compost NZ Tree Crops Ithaka Institute Frank Strie Ring of Fire kiln by Kelpie Wilson

Joany is one of the founders of The Good Carbon Farm and we chat about how she got into biochar, the work her charity is involved in, and what she looks forward to for the future. The Good Carbon Farm on LinkedIn and Instagram . Projects mentioned in the chat: Oke school gardens (https://oke.org.nz/) Restoring Takarunga Hauraki (https://www.rth.org.nz/) Slash for Cash, Tolaga Bay (https://www.slas...

Dennis Enright is Managing Director of New Zealand Biochar Ltd and promotes organic and sustainable growing practices, and the role that biochar can play in such systems. He has over 40 years of experience in agriculture and horticulture that ranges from researcher to commercial producer. In addition, he has sat on the committees of various local and national organic organisations in NZ as well as...

This episode with Phil covers where he is from, how he got into char, his favourite method of making it, what he uses char for on his lifestyle block, benefits of char, interesting new research about decontamination of pfas using char and iron, what he thinks is needed for biochar to go mainstream, and his role with Biochar Network New Zealand. https://slowfarm.co.nz/ Biochar Network New Zealand S...

A short introduction to the host of Char Chit Chat - Passionate Permie DylanOur website: https://passionatepermies.wordpress.com/ Listen to more from Dylan: 31 July 2024 Reskillience: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/retire-by-35-with-dylan-graves/id1723090226?i=1000663884860 9 May 2024 Quorum Sense: https://www.quorumsense.org.nz/content/podcast/38-transforming-waste-into-biochar-with-dylan-...