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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Molecularly imprinted biochar offers a highly selective and sustainable way to trap and destroy pollutants in water, soil, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Craig Young, Reporter-Herald BERTHOUD — James Gaspard points to a pile of charred logs, burned in the 2013 Black Forest fire, and says, “What else were ...

The following guest editorial was submitted by soil science professor David Laird of Iowa State University in response to a recent Farm Journal article about biochar titled “New Row-Crop Product ...