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My guest on episode 27 of the Root Simple Podcast is Michael Wittman, CEO of <a href="http://blueskybiochar.com/">Blue Sky Biochar</a>. We discuss:
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<li>What is biochar?</li>
<li>How is it made?</li>
<li>Can you make it at home?</li>
<li>Biochar and heavy metals</li>
<li>How it improves soil texture</li>
<li>History of biochar</li>
<li>Biochar and pH</li>
<li>How to use biochar</li>
<li>Using biochar in compost to reduce pH</li>
<li>How commercial biochar is made</li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.biochar-journal.org/en">Biochar Journal</a></li>
<li>Biochar in animal husbandry</li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1921630418/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1921630418&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=homegrrevolu-20&amp;linkId=7BZWDPLBZJKCCRRW">The Biochar Revolution</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/BlueSkyBioChar">Blue Sky Biochar Facebook Page</a></li>
<li>I mention an article from the Washington State University, <a href="http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/FS147E/FS147E.pdf">Biochar: A Home Gardener’s Primer</a></li>
</ul>
And thanks to Root Simple Podcast listener Max Morgan for connecting me with Michael.
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028 Radical Homemaker Shannon Hayes

A podcast about vegetable gardening, food preservation, home economics and DIY living. Hosted by Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne, authors of The Urban Homestead and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post Consumer World.