Gardening For Freedom

In this episode, Dr.Arun Bansal and Mr. Puneet Arora discuss how to handle waste with an approach Known as "BioChar" 

In laymen language “char” is a word that is used when some material gets burned and you are left with the remains of the material referred to as  “char”. Basically, it is a type of carbonaceous, solid, and recalcitrant solid which is typically extracted from the pyrolysis of waste biomass. In nature, when the fire broke out in jungles lot of char is produced and a large proportion of it can be classified as “BioChar” or black carbon. A material that burns at a low level of oxygen and in absence of oxygen transforms into Biochar. This process is known as pyrolysis or thermal decomposition. Using homemade or industrial-grade equipment pyrolysis can be used for making biochar. In fact, it can be engineered to suit many applications in agriculture, building material, wellness and many more.

Pyrolysis creates an intermediate fuel by decomposition of plant biomass. Biochar is primarily developed at temperatures ranging from 300 to 1000 degrees Celsius. The absence of oxygen enables a partial burning of organic matter thus producing more waste products such as biochar. Cold temperatures (300°C–600°C) yield a larger amount of char, with higher temperatures creating a more syrupy liquid. The best-known technology applied in waste-to-energy products is high-temperature pyrolysis of biomass materials yielding approximately 20 per cent syngas, a combustible gas used in internal combustion engines, consisting of mainly carbon monoxide and hydrogen, along with bio-oil and biochar.

The process of Making Vedic/Cow Dung/Tiles is discussed here : 

Host ": Dr. Arun Bansal 

Guest : Puneet Arora , Ecologic Corporation. 

Synopsis :

Houses that  are heat resistant both in winter and Summer are rare these days. As we grow the socio-economic  ladder  , we want to live in a pucca  house made of cement.

Brought to you By Puneet Arora 2000

In this PodCasts (S1E9), Dr Arun Bansal interacts with Puneet Arora to understand different the role of Ants, Termites, Earthworms, millipedes and centipedes. All these soil creatures somehow show up in our garden and we do not really know what to do with them?

In soil, these all these creatures play a very important role in gardening. All of them are helping to aerate the soil and help the plant get water and oxygen to the plants., not this all of them are helpful to the soil to become rich nutrition and indirectly impact the health of humans and animals who feed the plants. Yet, the role of all creatures is not properly understood and is most of the time ignored in kitchen gardening.

Therefore, besides discussing the role of all these creatures in gardening, we shall discuss how to stop them from entering our homes and keep them in the garden only. The key takes aways from this podcast are

In this episode, Dr Arun Bansal interacts with Puneet Arora to get answers on how to utilize common things that become waste in due course of time while cooking e,g as Vegetable Oils, Jackfruit Peels,Pine Apple Peels  etc 

There is no such thing Called Kitchen Waste for Gardners 

Kitchen Waste cannot be avoided. But considering it as Waste is sin for a Gardener. In this episode, we move ahead after identifying different kinds of Kitchen Waste for Gardeners from the last episode. 

In this episode E1S4, Dr Arun Bansal questions Mr Puneet Arora on how to use the kinds of Kitchen Waste. How can we make Bio Repellents, Bio-Fertilizers from Kitchen Waste?  

Kitchen is not just a place where food is cooked. It is a place where our health is determined. This is what most of many of us think. So,  we bring a lot of things in our kitchen that would add health and life in our life to our Kitchen and we forget about, what comes out of Kitchen.

In this PodCast, Dr Arun Bansal interacts with Puneet Arora to understand different categories of Kitchen Waste and how this Kitchen Waste is useful for building a Healthy Kitchen Garden that can make your immune system strong enough to fight all kinds ailments.

Key Take-Aways

The Kitchen Waste can be categorised in many ways :

 Waste based on Wet/Dry

 Waste based on Veg  /Non-Veg

 Waste based on Taste

 Waste based on Time to Decompose/BioDegrade

Can, we image a world where nothing is waste and there is nothing to waste !!

Can, we image ...........

It is hard, too hard a problem to image also. But remember the world created by nature was link this only. There was nothing to waste and Nothing was wasted.

What to do when you do not have garden soil to start a garden in lockdown

Lockdown word has been added to our daily vocabulary ever since we learned about it from media for the first time. Many people have taken lockdown as an opportunity for getting started in gardening, especially urban kitchen gardening.

But, the first challenge they face is about getting garden soil. People are living in a concrete jungle. Most of us are living in concrete blocks and access to the soil is limited.

I certainly feel this current crisis of covid is a tiny simulation of a nuclear war or the crises such as radioactive leakage.

A situation, that prohibits people of free movement and limits their civil liberties. In this podcast, Dr Arun Bansal from social substance interacts with Mr Puneet Arora to find solutions for getting started with Gardening with sophisticated equipment and material.

Key Take-Aways :

One can adopt Deep Mulch System for growing vegetables. In this summer season,  one can start growing ginger, turmeric and taro. All these crops are easy to grow and can be grown in deep mulch systems Deep Mulch System is a method of constructing beds that are made of organic  material such as jute bags, waste cotton cloths etc,

Starting Container Gardening in Lockdown needs some degree of creativity. Especially, when

resources for making pots or containers are not available in the lockdown period. In this episode

Dr Arun Bansal interacts with Puneet Arora to find out simple ways of making pots for growing veggies of the season.