Biochar is better than compost. It is the best homemade fertilizer for vegetable gardens and luckily creating biochar isn't all that hard. We will show you an easy way to make biochar on a small scale. But do not put raw biochar directly in the garden, charging biochar is critical. We show you how to do that too both by putting biochar in compost and for a quicker turn around by inoculating the bio char which will create the best fertilizer for vegetable garden you can imagine. By the end of this video you will know how to make biochar at home.

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Chapters
00:00 how to make biochar at home
00:45 how does biochar work
01:24 what is biochar
03:15 material for biochar
06:12 making a biochar kiln
06:55 starting the fire for a biochar burn
07:59 adding material to a burn
09:44 3 stages of fire
10:58 extinguishing the fire
11:55 raw biochar
12:30 biochar in compost
13:25 charging biochar