Using fire to build soil carbon and water holding capacity

[@marjoriejohnson6535]

Started using biochar in my garden before I knew anything about it ,except my dad always had a brush pile going and toward the end he shoveled dirt onto the fire because he hought that the ash and the charcoal, that you could crush with your hands was good for his soil. He came to this conclusion when he started farming on an ok . piece of land but he wanted to make it the best land. It was his first farm. He was 16 years old. . It was 1933 or 1934. He was a young child when he had to leave his childhood farm to go live in the city. Having little money he listened to the old farmers on ways to save money and build a better farm. My story was much the same. I dreamed of having a garden like we had when I was a child on the farm before my father " broke" his back and we left the farm. When I started heating my house with wood I strove to get crushable chunks of charcoal especially in spring and fall when I didn't need a heating fire during the day. ..that was 1976.

[@xyooj96]

is the 10 tons (metric ton?) pure biochar or charged biochar? do you just spread on the cover of the soil or has to be within the topsoil?

[@yeseniagonzalez2704]

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[@oldgravely]

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