[Terrapreta] eprida char - organic?

[John G. Flottvik]

Hi Tom,,Allan & List.

First, the reason I am to (try) to certify my product is to capture a part 
of the Organic Market. Why, because we have a program called the 100 mile 
diet. This means people want to eat only food grown within 100 miles of 
where they live. Reason, to not have to depend plains, trains and large 
trucks (pollution) to deliver our food products for thousands, or multi 
thousands of miles while spewing out CO2. This is becoming fairly popular 
here in British Columbia.
Some on the list want only pure, or straight charcoal. We can do that as 
well once we get set up and operating. I think to become successful we have 
to cover all the arms of marketing with Pure Charcoal, Activated Carbon and 
our own brand of JF BioCarbon soil amendment.

As Tom knows I have gone through a bit of a set back of late, but its time 
to pull up my Norwegian socks and move on. First of course I have to find 
funding, then set up the bagging line and go from there.

As for terra preta, Except for a handful of guys, most of us don't have to 
much knowledge about what will happen in different soil and dirt, that's why 
we need to experiment with all kinds of product(s) If we don't do these 
trials wheatear they fail or succeed, we will never know.

John Flottvik

JF BioCarbon products.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Miles" <tmiles at trmiles.com>
To: "'Allan Balliett'" <aballiett at frontiernet.net>; 
<terrapreta at bioenergylists.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] eprida char - organic?


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>> But I vote for "pure char or pure charcoal' for incorporating in our
>> soil and not for amended products.
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> Alan,
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> In these discussion we have considered char as the principle 
> distinguishing
> component of terra preta. Clearly there are components and combinations
> suitable to different crops, soils and applications - char, processed char
> (containing nutrients e.g. EPRIDA) amended char (added components such as
> organic matter or fungal inoculums), composted char (or char enhanced
> compost). Growers will pick and chose depending on their own judgment, 
> their
> neighbors' experience, or the effectiveness of marketing. Hopefully this
> fluid exchange of experiences will increase the number of experiments that
> people make with char and terra preta.
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> As I mentioned previously there is at least one OMRI approved amendment 
> that
> is substantially a char product. There may be others. The availability of
> products like this should encourage people to char in a variety of
> combinations. But they are costly. So for the time being it is DIY or pay 
> a
> high price.
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> Tom
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