[Market-farming] Charcoal Production - Was: Loss of Soil Carbon After Tilling

Allan.Balliett allan.balliett at gmail.com
Sun Jan 24 09:45:43 EST 2010


Richard - Sorry to be so slow to respond.  I've lost a lot of 
interest in bio-char in the past year, so I haven't been tracking it 
as closely as I should. Just the same, in the past two years, every 
lead I've had for bulk char at a reasonable price has never 
materialized. on thing 'appears' to be clear in the studies I've read 
or heard about in recent months is that not all char is equal in 
producing results with vegetables production. If you are open to 
hearing really bad news about char, check out what Dr Will Brinton 
has to say at Woodsend lab (I think you can google it with that info)

Over the years I have had a few samples sent to me but the hysteria 
around char led every one of those suppliers to raise their prices to 
unaffordable before I could buy from them.

Now my interest in charcoal is pretty much limited to finding a 
reasonably priced supply for my chicken feed.

But keep me posted! I sure like everything I've read about terra preta!!

-Allan in WV



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