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marc rassbach
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A Juvenile Earthworm

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terra preta - 2006/11/25 15:09 An idea you might wish to try on your soils - adding charcoal and making 'terra preta nova'

http://www.css.cornell.edu/faculty/lehmann/terra_preta/TerraPretahome.htm

http://www.geocities.com/gbechtold/gbtp1.html

Here they soak the bio-char in ammonia nitrate fertilizer

http://www.eprida.com

And if you bury the carbon char, work done in the amazon shows it stays in the soil for 1000+ years. (Get the carbon out of the air and into the soil.)

http://www.eprida.com/hydro/yahoo2004.htm

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triplearth
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A Fertile Cocoon

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Re:terra preta - 2008/02/24 20:17 I have been looking into this idea since I have accumulated piles of ivy and blackberry roots, upper portions and brush, small limbs and branches etc... I would rather make bio char than burn it. The contraptions that I have seen on utube and other internet sites either are small demos or sophisticated large equipment. I would love to see this happen in the willamette valley of central oregon where grass seed farmers burn debri after seed harvest. In HawaII where sugarcane debri along with plastic irrigation pipe go up in smoke. Another term used is pyrolysis. TE

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