Terra Preta – Black Earth – Charcoal in the Garden

I’m using this site as a place to place links and websites about this topic.

• Yale Environment 360
• Terra Preta Gardens
• Stanford University-Youtube
• Slides from above
• BioChar FAQ
• http://www.biochar.info/biochar.biochar-overview.cfml
• Soil Biology & Biochemistry 39 (2007) 684–690
• Cornell University 1 – 2
• UCDavis-01
• Youtube video – http://youtu.be/0Os-ujelkgw
• The Science Show – Australia
• Mother Earth News
• Nature Magazine
• Information for Schools
• FAQ-Gardening with Biochar
• The Biochar Solution: Carbon Farming and Climate Change
• The ‘Terra Preta’ phenomenon: a model for sustainable agriculture in the humid tropics
• Biochar for Environmental Management: Science… (Hardcover) by Johannes Lehmann, Stephen Joseph
• BBC Article
• University of Hawaii Article
• MAKING BIOCHAR: with Peter Hirst of New England Biochar – makes the point that charcoal will compete with plants for water and nutrients so he mixes it with compost and water for a couple of weeks before he adds it to the soil.
• Experiment – UK
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgwwV6YrWb0
• Western Farm Press
• Titan Clean – Canada

How to make charcoal in a weber kettle.