Click on on title below to link to a great report on potatoes, biochar and economics. It would be great to see some similar action here in NZ. Profile: Profitability Improvements from Enhanced Biochars: Results from a Potato Farm in … Continue reading
Category Archives: horticulture
New study out of Canada… https://www.soils.org/discover-soils/story/study-highlights-biochars-potential-horticulture “Read the full study: https://www.soils.org/publications/vzj/articles/0/0/vzj2014.06.0074. The paper will be open access for 30 days from the date of this news story.” … Continue reading
Ngataringa Organic Garden Biochar Gathering Sunday 16 November, 3pm 27 Lake Road, Devonport, Auckland Cam Smith and the ABE team invite you to see biochar production and application to develop the use of biochar in the Auckland region. Socialise and exchange notes with other … Continue reading
Kathleen Draper was recently in Oz to talk about her work with biochar. She was a guest speaker at the Mullumbimby bio-charfest (some reports on the fest from their facebook page). She has worked extensively with biochar in vineyards… a link … Continue reading
Wednesday 10 September—Biochar in vineyards workshop, Josef Chromy, Relbia | Tasmanian Times. … Continue reading
This is the title of a masters thesis by Jake Northup from Iowa State University that has been getting kudos from the international biochar community… “… Many biochar-based substrates produced plants with shoot dry mass greater than or equal to … Continue reading
Barry Husk from www.blue-leaf.ca has posted to the biochar discussion groups as follows… “Just a quick note to give some preliminary results, 1st harvests, from our 2013 biochar field trials on small fruit: Blueberries Patriot Highbush variety 5 replicate plots … Continue reading