I have no specific experience or special understanding of compost but I do recognize that compost is going to be a very important future pathway for biochar to the soil. It is easy to find plenty of research pointing toward … Continue reading
Category Archives: Soil application
This press release should be of interest to NZ biochar community. Our response in NZ seems quite narrow – we have sunk a lot of effort into NZAGRC but maybe stopped looking at other ideas. Why not broaden the picture… … Continue reading
RESEARCH PROPOSAL TO RETAIN NITROGEN IN PASTURE SOILS – Use of No-tillage to apply biochar into pasture root zones New Zealanders are waking up … to the environmental costs & unintended consequences of intensive dairy farming practices, in particular intensively managed … Continue reading
Combining biochar and organic amendments; Claudia Kammann, Bruno Glaser and Hans-Peter Schmidt Published as Chapter 6 in: Simon Shackley, Greet Ruysschaert, Kor Zwar and Bruno Glaser (editors): Biochar in European Soils, Routledge, London, 2016, pp. 136-164 see: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301295876_Combining_Biochar_and_Organic_Amendments This chapter summarizes … Continue reading
Another great article from the team at the Biochar Journal… Planting Urban Trees with Biochar by Bjorn Embrén “Urban trees face various challenges which frequently lead to high tree mortality, shorter lifespans and increased maintenance cost. To improve tree health … Continue reading
Prof. Marta Camps from NZBRC has circulated notice on an important opportunity for the NZ biochar community to engage with what should be one of our most important allies… the NZ Society of Soil Scientists. Looking at the usual list … Continue reading
Biochar in NZ gets some mainstream media coverage. Congrats to Jane Wrigglesworth who has done an admirable job. The final section tries to describe a home made production method. This is a little narrow and would have been better describing … Continue reading
I wonder how many of you also follow the discussion groups connected with the world-wide biochar network. There are a lot of great discussions going on. They include eminent authorities such as James Hansen, who is engaged in and with … Continue reading
The NZ public still has little awareness of biochar. This type of event may be a low cost way to wave the flag. Maybe a few local biochar producers can work together on organising a booth and even sell some … Continue reading
New hope for tackling ash dieback as researchers claim charcoal treatment makes trees more resilient “A fungal disease that is strangling the life out of Britain’s 80 million ash trees could be thwarted by the discovery of a natural soil … Continue reading