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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Biochar 101

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

I’ve undervalued biochar in my garden, and Matt Rees-Warren comes on the show today to discuss how he both produces and uses it. Connect With Matthew Rees-Warren: Matthew Rees-Warren is a gardener and author of The Ecological Gardener, which is out now Order The Ecological Gardener on Amazon (affiliate) Matt’s Website Matt’s Instagram Matt’s Twitter Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design.   Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast International Edition.

0:18.8

We have Matthew Reese Warren on the podcast.

0:22.0

He's a gardener.

0:23.0

He's been a professional gardener.

0:24.2

He's the author of the book, The Ecological Gardener, which you can pick up in the podcast

0:28.5

description.

0:29.8

So Matt, we talked yesterday, I would say at a philosophical level almost about the interplay

0:35.5

between, you know, weeding and keeping your garden nice and organized and, you know,

0:40.3

now there's this amendment that you hear all the time.

0:44.1

I think a lot of us listening probably have heard of it and that would be bio-char and

0:47.6

I have to confess, I really haven't done much with bio-char in my garden, which I think

0:52.6

I need to remedy.

0:53.6

So I'm as curious as everyone listening as to, you know, how you use this in your practice.

0:59.5

Yeah, I mean, again, I think it's been something quite new to me too, you know, I think I

1:08.7

like you and maybe lots of your listeners that had heard about it a lot and maybe heard

1:13.3

it on a more sort of, you know, amendment to compost or something like that.

1:19.9

But as I started to dig into it a few years ago, you know, researching the book, I began

1:26.5

to realise how adaptable and easy it is in normal gardening method.

1:31.5

And the key to it is every year, like say if you take a garden over the course of a year,

1:38.0

we're going to accumulate some wood.

1:41.1

Now like generally that's not going to be sort of like log of all wood, you know, because

1:47.6

it's maybe a proper big treefell, it's going to be brush, it's going to be brush, it's

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