Local parks in Cincinnati have been using an ingredient called biochar to help trees grow. They’ve been purchasing it from ...

Burning trees to help other trees grow? It sounds counterintuitive, but using biochar to improve soil conditions is a ...

Tile drainage is common in U.S. Midwest agricultural fields, helping to remove excess water and aerate the soil. While the ...

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 ...

What is biochar? And could it be used by Australian farmers to sequester carbon, save water and fertilisers, and increase soil microbial life? It may have become a political sound bite of late, but ...

Biochar is often overlooked as a soil amendment, but it’s incredibly beneficial for plants and gardens, and it’s easy to make at home. Created from burned wood and other organic matter, biochar can be ...

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 ...

If you take organic waste, subject it to high heat and starve it of oxygen, you will, through a process called pyrolysis, wind up with a pile of char — also known these days as biochar — that doesn’t ...

Applying beneficial microbes to soil sounds simple, but in practice it can be difficult to distribute small amounts of microbial products evenly through growing media or field soils. A study published ...

Nick Cuchetti, a farmer and board secretary of Missouri Organic Association, holds biochar at Oaklee Rose Farm in Luebbering, Missouri. Biochar is an organic waste material that can help improve soil ...

As global agriculture struggles to feed a growing population, soils are under increasing pressure. Heavy fertilizer use has degraded soil quality, disrupted microbial ecosystems, and increased ...

In a three-year project, researchers at NIBIO have tested how biochar affects potato yields and soil quality under Norwegian conditions. The results show that biochar has little effect on yield, but ...