Biochar
Carbon
Negative
Biochar is created from biomass or plant life, roasted through pyrolysis (cooking in a limited oxygen environment) to heat biomass down to its basic carbon building block while locking the plant’s stored carbon in a stable, solid form.
How is biochar made, and what makes it carbon-negative?
This eliminates a decaying plant’s ability to leak its stored carbon into the atmosphere.
Instead, we stash it away as biochar, activating it in our soils, where it’s happy and helpful, housing and feeding the microbes necessary for healthy soil.
Soil isn’t lifeless, it houses billions of insects, bacteria, fungi, and crucial microbes that create strong plants, starting at the root. Kind of like Earth’s stomach, soil can consume, digest, and cycle nutrients.
Here is where biochar plays a crucial role by retaining moisture and nutrients and housing and feeding the millions of organisms in the soil. We’re talking microbes like bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and the insects that feast on them, When these organisms interact with biochar, they charge or “inoculate” the biochar bit, creating a valuable piece of the soil's food web.
We now have a biochar bit that’s all hopped up with crucial nutrients – releasing and retaining depending on the root's needs and surrounding soil conditions.
How Carbon Acts in the Soil
How is biochar made, and what makes it carbon-negative?
Biochar is created from biomass or plant life, roasted through pyrolysis (cooking in a limited oxygen environment) to heat biomass down to its basic carbon building block while locking the plant’s stored carbon in a stable, solid form.
This eliminates a decaying plant’s ability to leak its stored carbon into the atmosphere.
Instead, we stash it away as biochar, activating it in our soils, where it’s happy and helpful, housing and feeding the microbes necessary for healthy soil.
How Carbon Acts in the Soil
Soil isn’t lifeless, it houses billions of insects, bacteria, fungi, and crucial microbes that create strong plants, starting at the root. Kind of like Earth’s stomach, soil can consume, digest, and cycle nutrients.
Here is where biochar plays a crucial role by retaining moisture and nutrients and housing and feeding the millions of organisms in the soil. We’re talking microbes like bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and the insects that feast on them, When these organisms interact with biochar, they charge or “inoculate” the biochar bit, creating a valuable piece of the soil's food web.
We now have a biochar bit that’s all hopped up with crucial nutrients – releasing and retaining depending on the root's needs and surrounding soil conditions.
Biochar also helps put much-needed carbon in the soil, diverting it from the air and storing it in the ground!
Nice!
we like to say that healthy soil means healthy plants,
and healthy plants make for a healthy planet.
So
Go ahead and feed your soil!
Why Hungry Earth ™?