Biochar
April 3, 2010 · Print This Article
“char·coal” definition: a black or dark gray form of carbon, produced by heating wood or another organic substance in an enclosed space without air.
I have been putting my final charcoal from burn piles & the wood stove into my garden beds for several years, hoping this common charcoal was Biochar… it is 
created in a smothered fire & yet didn’t consume like the rest of the logs, fits the description…but, how to smash & screen it into a finer powder, that sounds important! This year I will do it better…
Ed Burton has been talking about this for years too…& of course, biodynamic gardening has promoted it forever…time to take it more seriously…
My friend Lee thinks that this will save us when we can no longer get outside sources of fertilizers & amendments…we do live in a forest after all…
Here is a company working on a large scale production of biochar systems > http://biocharengineering.com/ Same principles as Ed Burton’s set up. As you say, in our neck of the woods this process might be quite viable and help build acres of local soil and potential revenue stream.
This is very good news!!! I am making my teeny bits in such a time intensive manner, glad to hear that someone is on it…Thanks!