Biochar with fruit trees podcast-Orchard People

Susan Poizner is a Canadian orchardist, who trains people on skills needed to grow fruit trees.  She did a podcast with this couple who make and sell biochar.  I found it to be interesting.

https://orchardpeople.com/what-is-biochar/

John S
PDX OR

One of the more interesting tidbits that these guys threw in there was that how much you want to crunch the biochar varies.  Bigger biochar bits, like the size of cherries, will retain more moisture.  This would be particularly important, of course, in a dry or desert area.   They crunch it to the size of coffee grounds, but I think they live in Southern Ontario, which seems to get an average amount of rain.  Vary the degree of crunch for your individual climate is the message.  More crunch makes the skeleton housing more available to more microbes, so if you don't live in a dry area, crunch it to coffee ground size or as close as you can get.

John S
PDX OR