The pruning of our apple trees is 99% done.
I'm burning the prunings to prevent any diseases from establishing or spreading.
The ash will go back under the apple trees.
I love the clean lines the fire creates once the middle has burned out.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
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Beautiful! Biochar opportunities? Less emissions, more carbon sequestration?
Hi Robert,
You might be interested in a seminar that Tessa Bunning is giving at Environment Southland Chambers on Wed Sep 1, 4 to 5.30 called Wild The City (Creating Complex Green Spaces, Encouraging Wildness in our City).
Her blog is www.wildthecity. wordpress.com but can't figure out how to attach her funky poster. cheers,
Juliet
I'm afraid it went beyong the char stage Nick and straight to ash!
We've made a pile of charcoal in the past, looking to sequester some carbon and found that we had work to do with the process of creating the best sort of charcoal - oxygen levels, choking etc. We've secured a steel drum that looks to be a step in the right direction for the next batch, though I favour the old woodlanders earth-mounds in terms of how it all looks. I read that it's important to make char on site and from materials grown right there for the maximum benefit, but I'm not sure about that yet. I suspect there is value in the idea though.
I've stacks of native tree 'prunings', mostly broom-handle sized, waiting to be processed and when we do get down to it, I'll post photos of the results.
Hi Juliet - great to read of your adventures over on Stepping Out -
http://julietlarkin.wordpress.com/
and thanks for the heads-up about Tessa's seminar. I very much want to be there and will ring ES now.
Are you going?
I'm making this drum version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXMUmby8PpU - looks the goods. Great point at 2:40 about slow vs. hot burns.
Tess Bunny is a friend and her work on Complex Urban Green Spaces is great - not to miss!
I'd like to come up and see that in operation Nick. I'll bring my seed ball drum up and we'll trade products!
Biochar is great but have you heard of Biogym?
We collected masses of aged charcoal for an exposed site where a forest burned hundreds of years ago and applied it to one of our garden beds but didn't do a control bed so we don't kniow if it helped or not :-)
Hi Robert,
Hope to make it to the seminar - though depends on who picking up kids from preschool. Tessa has a background as a landscape architect and is also doing the science communication masters (in her final year).
Wow, you are a prolific blogger, good on you - had to scroll to your older posts to find this and only a few days old!
Juliet
Hope to see you there Juliet.
Jill (Something Special) says 'hello' - she read your comment on this post and said "I know her". She was full of praise for your journalistic skills.
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