Is biochar doing something under the covers (of soil) that we don’t know about? Maybe, as in Vegas, what biochar does underground stays underground? We just gotta ask—is biochar getting freaky down there?
Here at ASCO2, we see household composting as a simple, everyday, effective way for you to turn a couple shades greener! In this post, I will also explain how combining biochar with compost optimizes the practice.
We owe the existence of biochar to the incredible chemical process called pyrolysis. The word pyrolysis comes from the Greek terms “pyro” meaning “fire,” and “lysis” meaning “separation.”
It's kind of funny how people think of soil as only "dirt" like what gets tracked in onto the carpeting. Soil is much more like an ecosystem teaming with life, similar to an ocean with all kinds of organisms interacting with and depending on each other.