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It's getting cold enough to start our wood stove, which means we can start making charcoal for biochar as we heat our tent. By the time I took this picture, most off the outer wood had burned down but the container (retort) was going strong. The retort keeps the wood inside burning without much access to oxygen, so the gases burn - those are the intense flames around the lid - but the carbon remains. It's a great way to use some of our fallen twig, it produces a clean, hot burn, and the result will be a wonderful addition to our soil.

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𝔼𝕣π•ͺπ•Ÿ 𝔹𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕔𝕠 2y ago

So cool πŸ₯Ή having a woodstove is part of my dream. Now that I know you can even make biochar in one, I am hoping for one even more!

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FiddleHodlHomestead 2y ago

We only discovered this way of making biochar at the very end of last winter, so I'm very excited to make this a regular part of our fires for the next many months. I have retorts lined up under the stove so that the next batches of twigs get dried by the stove and are ready to go by the time it's their turn.

This stove is pretty small - we're in a tent - but I've seen some decent ones on Etsy for less $ than I expected just FYI. I don't know enough about them to make any specific recommendations but once you have a place that will work with a stove, the stove itself might not be a big expense.