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vermiculture biochar update 02-22-09
07-26-09 vermiculture update. Feeding this week 10 cups Starbucks coffee grounds and 7 cups soaked alfalfa cubes. With one cup ground biochar in biochar bin. More issues with the non-biochar bin, it n… more →
Experiments in Biochar
Natural?
wrote 1 week ago: There was a fascinating program on BBC4 last night about the Amazon and how it seems to have been ga … more →
Heating up crop production with this ancient soil amendment...
wrote 2 weeks ago: A good breakdown on why you should be growing plants in soil amended with biochar/agrichar (charcoal … more →
Charcoal: The Other Black Gold
wrote 1 month ago: I have some friends who offer a Bread CSA. (CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture.) Folks … more →
More on terra preta (biochar) from NPR...
wrote 1 month ago: You’ve probably heard of compost – that thick chocolate-colored stuff that’s an organic … more →
Making Biochar For My Garden
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wrote 2 months ago: What’s biochar? Basically, it’s organic matter that is burned slowly, with a restricted flow of oxyg … more →
Terra preta - Biochar
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wrote 2 months ago: If you’re interested in agriculture, horticulture, plants, soil, agroforestry and/or pre-Colom … more →
Terra Preta, "The Lost City of Z," Amazon Mystery
wrote 2 months ago: For background do click on the NYT article. To those who think that there may be some validity to t … more →
How to make Biochar at home
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wrote 2 months ago: Home-made Biochar In my previous post we looked at What is Biochar and why you should be interested. … more →
What is Biochar?
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wrote 4 months ago: Terra Preta- Indigenous made Biochar soils. Biochar excites me. I think it could be the answer to wo … more →
Beauty: 3,000 year old soil enrichment technique, repackaged & rediscovered.
wrote 4 months ago: Jason Aramburu of re:char (re:char) via Fast Company It’s called Terra Preta (Portuguese for B … more →
Terra Preta
wrote 4 months ago: Pre-columbian Amazonians used a mutually beneficiary form of forest management. They turned nutrient … more →
Lebensgarten - Declan Kennedy and Terra Preta
wrote 6 months ago: Lebensgarten – (Garden of Life) Steyerberg is a settlement community, where the goal is a common des … more →
Reforestation Home
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wrote 8 months ago: Titan Arum Amorphophallus titanum, Cairns Botanic Gardens Welcome to Reforestation.me. This site off … more →
The Animal Improved Dung (AID) plus seeds treatment.
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wrote 8 months ago: Managing livestock, dung beetles and earthworms to disperse rock dusts, fertilizers, beneficial micr … more →
History of Terra Preta
wrote 1 year ago: Great article in National Geographic about the history of terra preta titled “Our Good Earth … more →
Telling the Biochar Story at TED
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wrote 1 year ago: As many of you may already know, I’ve been offered the distinct honor of speaking on biochar a … more →
World food crisis, still
wrote 1 year ago: The world food crisis, which was hot in 2008 and then subsided temporarily, is getting worse again. … more →
The lovely bones: Terra preta to save our terra firma?
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wrote 1 year ago: Charred bones set to save the world? The Amazon river basin is home to the famous Amazonian “dark ea … more →
The lovely bones: Terra preta to save our terra firma?
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wrote 1 year ago: Charred bones set to save the world? The Amazon river basin is home to the famous Amazonian “dark ea … more →
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