Can biochar support sustainable agriculture?
Biochar enhances soil in numerous ways. Its use in soil is new, exciting and not well understood yet. Biochar isnt a fertilizer, or food source for plants or microbes. Understanding its action requires a paradigm shift from chemical views to emerging 21st Century insights into the biology of the soil food web. Recently, scientists in Amazon rainforest found that 4,000 years ago tribes used biochar to create highly fertile terra preta. Japanese used biochar in soil successfully for centuries before it was displaced by industrial chemicals.
