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

We have Matthew Reese Warren on the podcast.

He's a gardener.

He's been a professional gardener.

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

description.

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

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

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

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

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

I need to remedy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

we're going to accumulate some wood.

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

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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