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 ...

Biochar can enhance soil health, filter wastewater, improve thermal insulation, sequester carbon and more. Advantageous though it may be, biochar remains something of a well-kept secret. Here, let ...

Pros, cons of biochar I am receiving an increasing number of questions about using biochar in the home garden. Biochar is a charcoal-like substance left over from the process of making biofuel.

You can make it yourself from old twigs and branches, to vastly improve your soil health.

Today, industrial-scale biochar production is beginning to occur, and dozens of do-it-yourself videos online show how to make biochar in just a few hours using steel drums.

Terraton sees promise in biochar, but the technology has struggled to scale. The startup thinks a franchise model could be ...

Because if we could make it work, biochar, combined with the other things we already know how to do, really could help save our asses, just as its advocates claim.

Biochar decomposes very slowly in soil, and the researchers expect the effect of the treatment to last for a long time—perhaps for decades.

Biochar, as a product, captures and stores carbon — the same element from the periodic table that we have been hearing about for many years that is polluting our atmosphere.