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If Santa Claus gives good people candy and toys in their stocking, and bad people coal in theirs, what do I have to do to get biochar in mine?

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Well, if his sled is all wood, I'd say burn it!
 
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Santa hears your prayers.. so if you are good, you will receive biochar. Writing a letter to the North Pole as a backup might not hurt, either. You could always pyrolize some wood yourself if you don’t feel like waiting.
 
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Well, Ms Pearl, you know that Mom's have an in with Santa... something to do with Misseltoe...
If you ask Mom nice maybe she will put a good word in with Santa.
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Ask for wooden toys
 
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Ask for wood as your toy.
Then make it into biochar.
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Curiously, a "lump of coal in your Christmas stocking" was originally a wish that you would would be kept warm in the coming year.

And then, I suppose, abundance ensued, and a cultural shift that this was a negative thing, uncool, a down vote, an insult.

If there was a bag of biochar in my Christmas stocking, I would know that someone worked their ass off to feed my garden and pay me a compliment. Pretty nice.
 
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Send Santa this link: Permies biochar forum
 
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If you were to time your Christmas fire correctly he would have to quench the fire to come down resulting in the incomplete burn after pyrolosis  leaving you with beautiful biochar.

Function stacking santa
 
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I have been totally amused by the responses to my silly question :D
Thank you for all the great comments!!
I have to admit, function stacking Santa wins in my book. Make HIM do the work for me! I love it :D
 
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If you've been really good, Santa will urinate on the biochar so that it's already inoculated.
 
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Dc Stewart wrote:If you've been really good, Santa will urinate on the biochar so that it's already inoculated.



HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Thank you!  I have not laughed out loud in quite a while.  I can just picture it.
Maybe his eight tiny reindeer, too!
 
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Susan Mené wrote:Maybe his eight tiny reindeer, too!


I think they'll be leaving their gifts for Pearl out in the backyard. :)
 
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Stephen B. Thomas wrote:
I think they'll be leaving their gifts for Pearl out in the backyard. :)


Works for me!! :D
 
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