Biochar compost blends forsale

[bazman]

Hi Guys

Warning: Gratuitous plugging of my products and business

I have finally finished making the mixing gear so I can custom blend compost and Biochar on my farm. If you are interested in my Biochar, chicken manure compost and fertiliser blend. I will sell direct in 25 litre bags and 200 litre drums. I hope to start selling direct at a few markets around Brisbane and the Sunshine coast. Starting with Caboolture Sunday markets in a few weeks time. I will also sell direct from my farm at Lake Kurwongbah which is 30km Nth of Brisbane if you wanted to pick up directly. Free tour of my Permie gardens is included

I have worked with a well known horticulturist to develop the compost blend and I feel this is one of the best ways to apply Biochar to soils. If you wanted extra products blended into a mix I would be happy to help, Bentonite clays for sandy soils or CPP/BD500 range as an example.

I sell poultry litter Biochar in 4kg tubs, 200 litre drums, 820kg bulk bags and I can ship Biochar all over Australia. I also have a product called BiocharMax in a 5kg tub which is Biochar blended with minerals and fertilisers. I will custom blend BiocharMax in 200 litre drums if any one was interested too.

I am happy to custom blend with Biochar, let me know what you want and I will do my best source the ingredients or use supplied ingredients. If you have any questions feel free to ask here or via my website Black Earth Products.

[matto]

Sounds like a good enterprise. what are the compost blends you have designed for? Trees, orchards and veges?

[bazman]

Hi Matto

The base compost blend uses a fully composted humus from animal manures and saw dust, a shorter term poultry compost which is high in NPK and a poultry litter Biochar which also contains a good NPK ratio. All this creates a short term boost for plants and longer term stable nutrients, labile carbon, micro-organisms and all of Biochars recalcitrant carbon structural benefits. This base is great fruit trees and vegi gardens. It's a good blend to boost raised garden beds structure which are quite popular these days (for some reason.)

I can reduce or take out the high NPK element which would be more suitable for Aussie native gardens or growing native hardwood trees as an example.

Biochar is really good at soaking up everything, so doing a custom blend and soaking the Biochar with liquid vermicast, comfrey and BD500/CPP would be a pretty good product base.

A lot of new gardeners and permaculture students want to kick start their soils, these sorts of blends are a really good starting point while they learn the fine art of composting and the reality that improving their environments takes time with lots of effort.

[S.O.P]

I've run my hands through his compost blend, it smelled nice.

To me, it made sense in creating a mixed blend as a niche product for direct application, rather than kickstarting it ones self.

[Michaelangelica]

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[Dzionik]

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Soil Reef creates biochar with an age-old process called pyrolysis that bakes uncontaminated wood by cooking it at high temperatures with no oxygen in a controlled container.

Seems like another commercial product with no sense, real biochar is low temperature burning product.
And total disappointment is the lack of any scientific or experimental trial.
I have no doubt that the biochare is good thing but this kind of commercialization with no effort to investigate real benefit is shit.

[Michaelangelica]

Seems like another commercial product with no sense, real biochar is low temperature burning product.
And total disappointment is the lack of any scientific or experimental trial.
I have no doubt that the biochare is good thing but this kind of commercialization with no effort to investigate real benefit is shit.

Probably they think there is enough research out there for them to jump on the bandwagon
But well spotted about the temperatures. Not just not as useful, but possibly environmentally negative impacts too

[bazman]

Biochar produced around 550 deg C has a good porous structure and retains and converts much of the carbon into a recalcitrant carbon. I'm unsure of the tech used to produce Soilreef biochar so I'm not going to comment on their product.

My trials are always on going, feed back from those who have used my product commercially is also important too. I tend to use pot trials for many of my tests as they are cheaper and easier to do in house. I have done a lot of work with Qld Uni (Gatton) and the boys at NSWDPI have been doing some really good work over the years with 150 field plots under management. http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/research/topics/biochar

As a commercial producer/retailer of Biochar my massive company of one unpaid over worked person (me) lol is doing their best to develop a series of sustainable products built around sound science and low emission controlled process engineering.

Not all Biochar is equal, like composts it's source feedstock and how it is made can effect the quality of the final product.

Just one note, the term to burn something implies that oxidation occurs which in general means the biomass will progress through to ash. Biochar is made by pyrolysis, heating the biomass in the absence of oxygen. Most produced Biochars are quenched to quickly remove heat from the product, as hot Biochar exposed to oxygen can re-ignite.

Time to get off the computer and go blend some compost and Biochar. =)

[Dzionik]

You are the MAN Baz :-) thanks for the link.