Why Gardeners Swear by Biochar — And How You Can Make Your Own originally appeared on Dengarden. It's possible you've heard of biochar or know someone who uses it, but if you're reading this, then you ...

FIRST-RATE AMENDMENT: Burned waste wood becomes an excellent soil amendment when nutrients and beneficial microbes are added. Photo courtesy of Living Web Farms Many sustainability-minded growers are ...

It’s one of the world’s biggest killers, leading to lung cancer, heart disease, and COPD, not to mention child pneumonia and low birth-weight babies. It affects billions of people. And if you think it ...

When Beauregard Burgess and three friends decided to start a hog and poultry farm in 2015, they chose an odd location: 20 acres of swampy land on the east side of Homer, Alaska, a coastal hamlet south ...

Want to improve your gardening game? Look no further than the age-old invention of biochar. This soil amendment is a fine-grained charcoal mixture, made by burning agricultural and forestry waste at ...

Molecularly imprinted biochar offers a highly selective and sustainable way to trap and destroy pollutants in water, soil, ...

CARSON CITY — State land stewards are experimenting with an ancient method to improve the health of Nevada forests and make use of the renewable resource — baking tree trunks and limbs in a slow ...

It's possible you've heard of biochar or know someone who uses it, but if you're reading this, then you might be wondering what it is. Although it's a relatively well known gardening material that's ...