A: Biochar is a naturally occurring, fine-grained, highly porous form of charcoal derived from the process of baking biomass. It has been associated with fertile soils for some 2,000 years. “Biochar ...

Why Gardeners Swear by Biochar — And How You Can Make Your Own originally appeared on Dengarden. It's possible you've heard of biochar or know someone who uses it, but if you're reading this, then you ...

An interview with Laurens Rademakers of Biochar Fund. Biochar—the agricultural application of charcoal produced from burning biomass—may be one of this century’s most important social and ...

Biochar soil conditioners are hitting the retail market in a big way, and you will soon (maybe already) find these products on shelves of garden centers near you. Product labels on biochar products ...

When Beauregard Burgess and three friends decided to start a hog and poultry farm in 2015, they chose an odd location: 20 acres of swampy land on the east side of Homer, Alaska, a coastal hamlet south ...

What is biochar? Biochar is wood chips that go through a process called pyrolysis, basically burning without much oxygen to produce wood charcoal. So biochar is another name for charcoal when not used ...

Re:char is a pioneering company that sells kilns to farmers in Kenya that allow them to convert their farm waste into what’s known as biochar, which can then be used for cooking. As an enterprise, ...

The term "biochar" may be new to some, but the notion of adding it to soil with the purpose of improving soil fertility has been around for centuries. Interest in biochar recently has been related to ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota researchers are on the cutting edge of the fight against climate change. The Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI) and the city of Minneapolis are using Biochar to clean ...

"There is too much Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. Our soil and food systems are broken," said Henrietta Kekäläinen, CEO, Carbo Culture. "None of us will stay alive without topsoil." Globally, ...