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More detail on the trees w/biochar trial that showed no improvement would be interesting.  I think a lot of biochar trials are probably on the short side.  

Tigercat carbonizer runs around $500k.  It would be interesting to see how fast it is compared to a tub grinder.  Helene left an incredible amount of woody debris in the area.  Much of which is being ground into mulch.

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Back in January, we charred a bunch of bamboo we used for feed, then got snow/ice that hung around for a while and impeded spreading,  Finally got it spread today.  In the meantime, the bamboo pile has grown to enormous proportions.  Hope to burn again soon.

Cotton duck pants seem to hold up better for me than jeans.  I am cheap so I buy Dickies instead of Carhartts.  You have to look closely though, there are. two different weights of canvas.  

I burn the bones in the woodstove, then spread on my property.

Our unstaffed recycling collection dumpsters were recently removed.  They were often overfilled.  Dumping of trash was the reason given for removal.  The staffed centers are still open.  They recently moved from sorted to single stream with the exception of cardboard and glass.  I’m guessing they compress the loads and ship them overseas.

Sara Carver wrote:My county (that I just moved to) - Putnam, in Florida just stopped its recycling services due to "low citizen participation" which is a slick way to save money while placing blame on the people. Now I have to drive all my recycling 45 minutes away to Gainesville one a month. I feel like I just stepped back in time.

If you are driving for no other reason than the recycling, the fuel/tires/oil/brakes consumed is probably worse for the environment than landfilling the recyclables.

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New burn record and new single pile (720) record!

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Big white pine burn, most of the remaining windfall from Helene.  Topped off one of the two piles with a bunch of bamboo that died after flowering.  Neither pile charred the center very well, the huge piles just exacerbated the wet wood problem.  Still made a ton of char, maybe a new record.  Got the smaller of the two piles spread.  One more to go…

11/4/25