June, Early Summer

Biochar has an ancient history and a hopeful future. 

Anne and Magi haul biochar to the greenhouse.

Here on the farm it is made and used as a soil amendment.  It helps stabilize the moisture and nutrients essential to plant growth and health.  Known as soil's best friend— because of biochar's physical and chemical nature, it has a unique ability for attracting and holding moisture, nutrients, and agrochemicals even retaining difficult to hold nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorous.
It also is beneficial in the process of sequestration of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide gasses from the atmosphere, which are causative factors in creating the "greenhouse effect" and ultimately the warming of Earth's climate.

Later this month we will gather, friends and neighbors, and enjoy the bonfire that creates the biochar from waste wood, as we celebrate the onset of summer and the gifts that its bright sunshine brings us.

Happy summer!