Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

>From what I read the Terra Preta was not the result of just adding charcoal 
>to the soil. It involved adding large amounts of organic matter as well and 
>may have taken centuries to develop into the black, fertile soil. If anyone 
>has that long to wait, go for it. We build the healthiest soil already with 
>a wide range of organic matter - and that contains plenty of carbon as well. 
>I know. I started with thin, poor, arid climate dirt and brought it to 
>serious fertility in a couple years.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 11/8/2009 at 12:23 PM Ken Hargesheimer wrote:

>I can not think of any thing as destructive to the soil and organic
>matter as biochar. Farmers did not come up with this hairbrain idea.  I
>studied Brazilian jungle farming before the promoters got to college.
>Biochar destroys the one thing the soil needs more than any other thing:
>organic matter.  Burn it up and put the ashes on the soil.  Excuse me!
> 
>Ken Hargesheimer