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Another solar power + plant conservation project for the win:

earth.com/news/plant-species-t…

#SolarpunkSunday #plants #Ecovoltaics #solarpunk


Plant species near extinction mysteriously rebounded and is now thriving after a solar power project was installed

A plant called threecorner milkvetch, nearly extinct, has grown eightfold thanks to solar panels, surprising scientists and conservationists.
Raquel Brandao (Earth.com)
#solarpunk #plants #solarpunksunday #ecovoltaics

The biochar will help aerate the soil, add microbiology help with water retention and make a long term store of inert carbon.
The biochar burn stores more carbon than is burnt off, making it a net carbon store despite the fire.

We get woodchip as a waste product from the local tree surgeon.

I also managed to get some willow offcuts from a local basket weaver’s class & will try those next. They will also try making biochar with the rest of their offcuts.

#Biochar #SolarPunkSunday

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Incase anyone is interested in the Biochar burn I did the other day here’s how it worked for me (I was not sure what to expect- so feel like it might help others)
I used a biochar kiln, with an inner & outer sleeve. The inner sleeve has holes at the bottom and very top only.
The fuel was riddled woodchip (to stop too small particles blocking airflow)
1 You can see the gasses coming through the top airholes & burning off.
2 flames go pale/invisible
3 quenched char

#Biochar #SolarPunkSunday

Close up photo of the orange flames. The ring of holes around the top of the inner sleeve let gasses out & they burn off. Not much (if any) smoke is coming off the burning dry woodchip. Burn was started with cardboard and eco firelighters from the top.
Still burning but not much visible flames. This is the point you stop the burn- before the charcoal also burns- by pouring lots of water on it to quench it.
A trug with quenched charcoal - there us some water in the bottom of the trug, the liquid run off from a wormery was added to the charcoal to let the microbes colonise the charcoal. Some breaking up of the charcoal chips is still needed.
#biochar #solarpunksunday

A photo of a burnt area of land. Some branches remain on the ground, and some mandarin trees and banana plants have survived with some singed leaves. The ground is a mix of black and brown. In the foreground and the background, some ugly brown grass still stands, having recently gone to seed. In the far back of the image, at the top of the hill, the last patch of original rainforest remains, its dark green contrasting with the brown and burnt landscape below and the white overcast sky above.
A photo of an area of land recently cleared and used to grow maize. The maize has been harvestd, and the straight rows of dry and brown stalks are visible in the background. In the centre of the photo is a single banana plant with one of its pseudostems broken and bent down to the ground. The foreground of the image contains a large blackened patch of ground where the refuse from the maize harvest was piled and burnt. Some green pasture grass is already colonising the area. In the far back of the image, at the top of the hill, the last patch of original rainforest remains, its dark green contrasting with the brown and burnt landscape below and the white overcast sky above.
A photo of a cacao tree growing in a monoculture plantation tinted slightly yellow by the late afternoon sun. Other than a small clump of taro visible near the bottom of the photo, the entire plantation consists of only cacao trees and invasive grasses (visible going to seed in the foreground). Any patch of ground not covered by cacao leaves is grass. No birds, insects, or other animals are visible. At the left of the image, far in the background, is what remains of the original rainforest, appearing almost blue in contrast to the vegetation in front of it.
A photo of a ripe red cacao fruit held in someone's left hand. The deep red appears almost purple in the holder's shadow and contrasts with the small amount of yellow between the ridges. The ground is visible behind the fruit and consists of the holder's shadow on a gravel road in the right of the photo and the invasive demon grass growing alongside the road in the left of the photo.
A photo of a latitudinal cross-section of a cacao fruit held in someone's left hand. A small amount of white pulp clings to each pinkish-brown seed. The seeds are packed tightly together around a thin central core, and there is a slight gap between this mass of the seeds and the thick outer shell of the fruit. One seed has been cut slightly to reveal the purple interior. The background of the photo is a ceramic tile floor.

Badass Fruiterrarist Land

Reforestation project in the Amazon of Ecuador for vegans, raw vegans, and fruitarians — cheap land in the tropics for food freedom, climate action, and anarchist community life
Amazon Restore
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