CCC S2E13 with Amanda Currie (Tinwald Farm)

Episode 13 of the Char Chit Chat with Amanda from Tinwald Farm covered a lot of cool stuff. I feel like more women are needed in the world to run farms so that they become way more connected with the living systems that they are part of.

Amanda farms regeneratively near Cromwell where her challenges are improving degraded soils and reducing inputs. She is doing this by breeding and applying microbes at scale and incorporating biochar into various aspects of the farm. Amanda has studied extensively with the Soil Food Web Foundation where soil life education is paramount.

Amanda explains in detail how microbes are extracted from home made compost and applied to the vineyard and pastures at scale. And also how grapes can be grown in a regenerative way. Current trials involve applying mixed compost and biochar under a wool mulch to those vines that need it.

And of course, how biochar is made and with what feedstocks in the Kontiki Kiln with skids for ease of mobility...

An introduction and overview of Biochar: https://www.sces.org.nz/biochar

The national biochar network in NZ: https://biochar.net.nz/ (BNNZ)https://freesound.org/people/joshuaempyre/sounds/250749/

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CCC S2E15 with Toula Finlayson (Southland Carbon)

Toula from Southland Carbon joined me for a chat this week about her journey of biochar discovery to being the largest commercial producer in NZ. Toula and partner Andrew set up the facility in the ol...

27 Sep 28min

CCC S2E14 with Kevin Rapson (Buzi-B Flower Farm)

Episode 14 was a fun chat with Kevin Rapson from Buzi-B Flower Farm. We chat about how he has used biochar to improve his and his wife Trish's soil for growing flowers commercially on their small hold...

23 Sep 34min

CCC S2E12 with Greg Hart (Mangarara Farm)

Episode 12 features well known regenerative farmer Greg Hart from Mangarara Farm in the Hawkes Bay region. Dylan has known about Greg and his tree planting for many years and met Greg at the Undergrou...

27 Jul 36min

CCC S2E11 with Shakēd From

Shakēd is involved in a large variety of endeavours and we talk about these for awhile before biochar comes up, but hopefully you will still find it all interesting!We chat about a 3 year black soldie...

18 Jul 45min

CCC S2E10 with Phil Stevens (Slow Farm)

Dylan's first face to face podcast with an update from Phil in Ashhurst about what he is up to (S1E2 here). We had just returned from Hamilton with John after Fieldays 2026 and I was spending two days...

20 Jun 14min

CCC S2E9 with Lydia Thomsen (Pickled Compost)

Episode 9 with Lydia from the Wairarapa covers the relationship between soil health, plant nutrition, and human health. Lydia is a qualified nutritionist on a mission to pickle household food scraps u...

26 Mai 42min

CCC S2E8 with John Valentine

Episode 8 with John explores his recent discovery of biochar for his compost and his method of making it in a stainless steel bucket. This takes some work to do, but in a social context such as hangin...

14 Mai 30min