Jim, I use a 10% hardwood ash solution to soak the biomass for 24 hours. Mike

When we set up the mushroom mounds we also did a wood ash cold sterilized straw/wood chip bed in a plastic tote. We got home from a trip yesterday and the King Stropharia mushrooms were fruiting. I di

Kim, Don't trees do air mining already....? Mike Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

Tom, In a sense we are making high carbon straw ash in a planting hole. The nutrient quenching liquid contains a range of ingredients which include pyroligneous acid and hardwood ash. After quenching

Tom, This is good to know info. Around 80% of the wheat straw biomass is below grade in the hole when we top burn the straw. Mike

Kevin, I have yet to watch your video but we do top light our wheat straw piles. The wheat straw we use is bone dry. One of our goals is to create biochar in place and not move it. We quench with a nu

Kevin, I work with wheat straw for this flame cap method. We still dig a depression in the soil. We use this method as a pre-plant plant improvement approach. We leave the char in-place and then plant

K., Is the approximate bulk density of wood char coming out of the oven known within a +/- range ? Is it reasonable to estimate the dry ton information by doing a bulk density of the wetted quenched w

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Nando, An idea to consider is to make a methane burb reduction product using garlic extract absorbed onto a char carrier. You could grow your own garlic, extract it, and absorb it onto char. We make a

Nando, Which livestock category are you looking at ? Mike Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

Rick, What are they trying to grow...? Irrigated / dry farming ? Annual / Perennial. ? Mike

Rick, What is being remediated regarding the soil ? In other words, what is wrong with the soil ? How many years is the project going to be active ? Mike

Rick, Where in California is the compost located ? Does it make sense to pyrolize it...? Mike

Gordon, I thoroughly agree that using biochar as the delivery system for high performance compost extract is the way to go. Agriculture is all about material handling. There are numerous ways to more

Rick, Depending on your "why" and success definition, I suspect that you may not need to make 500 tons of high performance compost to acheive your goals. Mike

Rick, Using the plants and clay pot irrigation provides a more focused plant approved root population of microbes. The rice hull adds porosity and serve as a nice substrate for fungi, like Trichoderma

Rick, As far as I can see DJ's approach is the set up of an efficient cylinder shape solid state fermenter much like the smaller version I set up to grow potato and tomatoes in this season. Since fung

Good Day, The King Stropharia mushrooms have just started to fruit from the other side of the mound. The picture is of the mushroom fruit starting to stick its head out. They will ready to pick in abo

Gordon, Regarding mushrooms, what is the target mushroom to be grown ? Choose the mushroom type before the growing substrate. Mike