BIOCHAR - Building homes for soil microbes 

Every video is a such a great mix of science, spirituality, and stunning camerawork.

This channel is MASSIVELY underrated. God bless you mate, you're something special.

You are a world leader now in permacultre and beautiful you tube content .I hope you realise how much you are loved around the world. Best wishes from Ireland 🇮🇪

Back in Byrril Creek, We used Bamboo. Some of our neighbours, had overgrown bamboo. We would "get rid" of It for them for free and get a lot of material. Then Same process as yours. Crush it like we Pound Yam back in West Africa, a whole work out 😂. Put in the chicken coop, compost, Korean Farming prep, vermicompost.We even tried in the biodynamic prep. Everybody was happy AF.

Impresionante video, y el final me pone los vellos de punta ❤ Impressive video, and the ending makes my hair stand on end ❤

Thanks Weedy ! Good to know ! 🥰

I just discovered this video, and it's exactly what I was looking for. So many gardening videos show "how to use biochar" and assure me that "it's easy to make - just burn wood without oxygen". But this video takes us through an actual hands-on demonstration. Thank you for being both informative and realistic/pragmatic.

I was impressed at the preparation for burning wood to making a biochar. We do it unknowingly every time , here in India .we cut huge branches of trees from our own backyards and leave them in open area, for someone to pick them up for firewood or burn them there, My neighbour cooks food, boils water for bathing etc etc.. over a fire from logs of wood and douses it after use. She brooms out the ash and the charcoal pieces into her trees. No wonder her trees are so healthy. For us it is an age old practice to cook food over fire from organic matter, supposed to be the most healthy way of cooking. Very impressive way of capturing the essence of living! Thank you for a wonderful presentation and stupendous photography. All I did was to ask my neighbour to give me the charcoal pieces left over from her firewood 🙂

That was a pleasure to watch! Thank you much :)

Thank you for your post. I make Biochar by heating my home. I make a hot fire and then take the red hot coals and put them in my metal bucket . The coals float to the top.. my house is warm and lots of Great Biochar .😎🇺🇸😎

OH, MY GOODNESS! How I wish was 70 years younger to once again do all these wonderful things to God's now depleted soil, thanks to our human interference! But even now, dear Weedy Gardener, with your lovely feet flat on Gods earth, and your beautiful smile and shiny laughing eyes, even now, as a 73 year old long lost farmgirl, now in a retirement village, you have inspired me! I will attack this dreadful Perth sand, and create a bustling metropolis of biochar high rise dwellings for each and every little soil microbe to delight in! And then, just like the little farmgirl with cow-dung between my toes and hands in the rich South African soil, sowing and planting every possible vegetable seed I could find, - I might just find, once again, that joy and 'fullfilledness' of a fabulous, fruitful, fragrant, fertile and free growing vegetable patch, full of true flavoured and deeply hued veggies of every shape and taste and size in happy abundance! You are the only husband I would ever choose for my beloved soil loving daughter! You do make my heart sing, and my soul dance! THANK YOU!!

Hope to grow up like this man later in life🙏🏻

I am so impressed with your artistry. You have so many tricks up your sleeve with the edits. Watching your videos has encouraged me to get into timelapses as a way to express ecological phenomenon. And I also learn a great deal from your content! Thanks man and looking forward to more :-)

I'll like your videos before watching from now on.

Best video on bio char I’ve seen. And I’ve watched a lot!

love your videos mate, helping me alot ,cheers from a kiwi in brasil !!

very informative and very entertaining camera work. thank you

creative cinematography, I can tell you not only know gardening but also filmmaking.. A rare skill

What a wonderful video. More helpful than you know!! Thank You :-}

Great video. Thank you for sharing!

Super Super Helpful,,,,, That will be happening this weekend!!!!!!

❤ grateful

One of the best videos on making biochar that I've watched.

When people comment " I want to be your neighbour" they really mean it.. that's how beautiful your garden is..

Thank you for your Videos 😊😉. Here in Germany it is only cold and rainy for 6 month. It' s a plesure to see your paradise 🌴🌱🪴🌻🥀🌺🦠🕊🐛. I love it. 🙋🏼‍♀️

I could watch this channel all day, every day. When I grow up I want to be like you 👩‍🌾

Thanks for making this video.

We did biochar in a barrel just this way. To inoculate we put in into the deep litter bedding under our rabbit cages for a year. It went on the garden last spring, and the growth last summer was insane! Plants normally 4’ tall were 7”! I’m noticing how much better the soil structure is this spring. Definitely doing again

Thanks for your gift of great inspirational content

Hi great video ! I live in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California . I just heat my home using wood and cutting off the air. I also burn brush as well and make my Biochar I can make about 5 gal bucket in a few hours but it depends how cold it is. Again great video .🇺🇸😎🇺🇸

It is not well understood that horticulture is a science, But your videos, David, clearly articulate this fact in such an enchanting and inspiring way. Like you I am deeply into working WIITH the natural world and always looking at ways to harmonize my garden exploits for a mutual benefit. I have been retaining my garden prunings for the last 6 months or so. with the intent of making biochar. Now, your tutorial has clearly shown me all the why, the how, and greatly expanded my knowledge over and above what I had previously sourced. I have tasked myself to refurbish a raised vegie patch -7 sqr metres - which used to dry out REALLY FAST ,as it was mainly made with my home made compost, mixed with organic supplements, straw, vermicast etc. I added a liquid clay slurry to the bed ,which added mineral nutrient and helped a fair bit with moisture retention, but I look forward to forking holes into my now "NO DIG" bed - retaining soil biota structure- and adding the actvated biochar. This amendment should greatly enhance my first no dig bed, and once I water the biochar into the forked holes, hopefully no need to future "dig it over"! Cheers and thank you for your brilliantly produced videos. Wishing you continued health and happiness.

Really nice pictures , script, and acting too!! my wife had enough of me staying all night long watching all the episode!!

good work dear

Most enlightening explanation of why char is good for soil.

thank you weedy gardener

That is the simplest method of producing Bio Char I have seen so far. Most people make such a big convoluted process out of it that it's impossible to follow with simple means. Thank you

Agree Lee Trott... its like watching peace

This is the most understandable, entertaining AND inspiring explanation for making/using biochar I’ve come across. Plus the cinematography is beyond pro.

The body goes back to the earth, but the soul & spirit of man lives on.

Great video. I learned so much. Thank you for sharing mate 👍

I love the way that you broke-down some of the science involved in the process. Great video!

You are soooooooo informative! Very few channels are this resourceful. Thank you so much!

I wish I had a space to call my own just like you Weedy ☆

The "Bob Ross" of gardening. Amazing production. Thanks so much for sharing! Best wishes

A treat to watch...soothing, humerous and educational....also a balm for the Soul. Thank you Weedy 🙏🌈💚🍀🌻🍄🦎🐸🐀🦜🐞🐝

I love how simply you defined biochar. Now I truly understand what it is and what to do with it. Thank you !

We've been trying to decide how to make biochar all week but we're in a burn ban. But your fabulous burning drum is allowed and I like it so much we watched and then immediately built one. :)

always love your videos

I can’t believe you answered or appreciated and replied to my comments it’s amazing I really do love what you’re doing and I really do love the way you explain things and then you have the added benefit of the beautiful visual.. Outstanding, holy cow 😍

This is such a fantastic channel

this is the best vid I have viewed on how to activate bio-char...good on you.

Thank you so much. Your spirituality bleeds through your videos. Very soothing and almost hypnotizing.

I've been buying lump charcoal by the 50# bag at Sam's, but it's a huge, backbreaking chore to smash it all down and sift it. Yesterday, I got the bright idea to run it through my electric wood chipper. The result was pieces about 1/4" to 3/8" in size, which is perfect for my tastes. I learned three things: 1) Don't do this if you are sweating. 2) Do this BEFORE you shower. 3) Use clothes you plan on throwing away, or do it naked. I'm also going to have to hose the chipper down, but this only took me 45 minutes, as opposed to 5-8 hours. so it's worth it.

Weedy Gardener, you are such a beautiful man ! I teach cooking and gardening in an alternative primary school in Victoria. I always tell my students: Where does our food come from? Food comes from the soil. Food is good, but good food is better. Where does good food come from? From good soils ! Love from Macedon Ranges, Victoria.

Dear Mr. Weedy...first, a thank you for renewing my hope in many things. In short, I've been at this Permaculture journey for the last three years. I retired from regular work at 49 and began our journey on 40 acres in Southwest Colorado in the mountains. It has been a difficult but rewarding journey. Last year, however, I got Covid...twice. I have been discouraged and tired and tired and discouraged until I watched your videos. It has taken so much energy to get where we are...digging and swaling, crawling and sweating and overall just trying. Some people would say we have great success but I mostly see what more we need to do and worried that with my decreased capacity, we wont get to it. HOWEVER, there are so many things I can still do while healing that are low impact and those things are to work on our soil. Thank you again for the wonderful detail. We have good soil once you learn dry farming indigenous techniques, but its not GREAT soil and now my focus this next year will be making Great soil using techniques from all over the world...

Greeting from Romania! This channel was so inspirational for me since the beginning.

Enjoying all the contents of your channel and learning heaps...

You make some great videos man! I am so jealous.

Biochar is useful in so many ways, permanent carbon, aeration, water retention, nutrient retention and microbe housing. It’s done wonders in my garden and potted citrus trees. I inoculate, charge it in my worm bins, hot compost and I have a couple buckets with holes in the bottom around my yard that I pee in. After I pee in a bucket for a while and know it’s got a good nitrogen charge I toss it into my compost for the microbes to move in. Great video as always 👍

I came here to find out if you use the LAB solution to innoculate your biochar, thank you!! I made my biochar by digging a cone shaped pit and water jetting/driving a metal pipe from outside the pit at about 30degrees aiming towards the bottom of my pit. Once the pipe popped through, i pulled it back, tossed a bit of mud over it and did my burn. When i was satisfied with the level of my pit, using my water hose in the angled metal pipe, i flodeed it from the bottom up. It worked perfectly! Now im going to give millions some community housing!

This was so pleasing to watch and listen to. Very informative as well. Top tier content

I love your videos, I’ve learnt so much. But the most impressive thing is your photography and videography. I have not seen a Milky Way like that since I was a young child. Love from Freo Western Australia 🇦🇺

I think I saw Weedy two times. How muich love you put in your videos!! Greetings from Germany :)

I often say when my friends ask "How old are you?", you will have to cut me in half and count the rings. I am glad I watched till the end my friend!

mate you're a bloody legend honestly

A joy to watch in every way. Gardening as part of the bigger world

Love it mate

Awesome vídeo, thank you!

For me, it's very special to see how complex things become so easy throught these vídeos!! 🤠

Lovely video mate. It feels like learning by listening to a story. Really well done.

A tour of your garden would be amazing.

New Subscriber, really cool video and I enjoyed the step by step process as you explained it, there is a lot of good reason to take charge of Food resources and make a serious difference to the quality of food available to us. Cheers from Garry in Brisbane

This guy deserves an Oscar and a Nobel together.

Nice work weedy gardener 👍🏻

Love what you are doing...you're a fantastic teacher...greetings from the Sunshine Coast...

Favorite channel on RU-vid. Thanks Weedy!!! Big Love form NorCal USA. Namaste

Dude, i do videos too, but there is something special about the way you tell stories. Very inspiring. You deserve way more attention

Best video I have seen on youtube about Biochar. I want to make some now.

Love your videos,garden,and the way you film and present information.. keep up the good work..thanks

Always a big thank you and a hug my tribesman. I missed you, funny to say to a stranger who I somehow know but might never meet. My fellow Earthling with our feet in the soil on the same orb. Love and blessings. Thanks for all We have.

Maganda panoorin. Maraming matutunan.

Your videos relaxes the soul in an immense way. Thank you for your patience in creating these educational and entertaining videos. ❤️

Never stop making videos you legend. I just wish there was more haha.

Best explanation of what Biochar is, how to make and use it I have seen so far (And I've read and watched a lot of videos about it!)!

My next project! I think I can do this. Thanks for showing us this!❤

Sensational yet again dear brother David ..... maintaining your boyish good looks and healthy vitality you obviously find some time to enjoy the " fruits of your happy 'toil' " I expect lovely Heath has a pair of hands in that also .... luvya both x

Best channel on RU-vid

Scarecrow??? Don't think you're aware of how freaking awesome your videos are lol. I tried to count but got completely lost in the story ;) awesome David, as always !! Cheers

I'd love to see how healthy your medicinal plants are in your living soil👏👏you garden with so much love ❤️

I am so glad i stumbled across this channel

I just love to watch ur videos♥️

I learn something every time you make a video .thank you

I saw another YT video on biochar 1-2 years ago. It didn't explain the science as well as yours (not at all in fact!) with the result that I did it wrong and saw no benefit. I now feel confident to try it again, thanks.

Hi, next time you try, soak the charcoal in liquid compost for a few days. You have to aerate the mixture with an aquarium air pump.

I'm so glad I found your channel again. Your videos were one of the first I watched when planning my garden last year. I learned how to make LAB, FPJ, and compost. It really inspired me to start gardening. Then I couldn't find you anymore because I forgot the name. You've really stepped up your video making skills since then and I love it! Can't wait to see what I've been missing. Namaste.

Such a good video! No need to mention biochar stock carbon into the soil pretty much for ever while mulch or burning to ashes releave carbon in the atmosphere... Everybody should do it, thank for sharing this technic i didn't know, really clever.

Im sending this to everyone I have told about biochar as this is by far the best and inspirational video on the subject.

Good day!! Great to catch up with you and your garden. So enjoy our time together,, I always learn so much! Many blessings to u and yours!!

Not sure if I thought it or posted. RU-vid should have awards show and Weedy should win (he's already winning)!

I wish I was a neighbor of yours so I could work on your farm and learn wonderful things. Such a beautiful place you live in. I love this channel. Oh, I made some bacteria juice and poured it on my compost this week and am turning it daily in my back yard! CHEERS!