What's the Big Deal with Biochar?
By Jocelyn Molyneux
Why Biochar?
The porous structure of the activated charcoal creates “microbial condo units” to house beneficial microorganisms and nutrients from the worm manure, making them readily available for your plants to use.
The charcoal also works to improve the water retention of your soil while at the same time increasing soil pore space and promoting air flow. This makes Biochar great for orchids and other plants with finicky watering needs.
Biochar is environmentally sustainable and even absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to fight climate change.
Our biochar is organic, all-natural, safe for kids & pets, and odorless.
How is it Activated?
My biochar is activated with diverse micro and macro nutrients through a special production process that with nutrients by allowing it to cure alongside my highly nutritious Worm Manure for multiple weeks. During this period the slurry is tested to ensure maxium activation through EC and pH mesaurements. This ensures the biochar is loaded with bioavailable plant nutrients and can immediately begin feeding your plant, rather than stealing nutrients out of the soil.
How is it Inoculated?
During the activation curing process, the biochar is also becoming incoculated with a wide diversity of micriobology, thanks to my biologically diverse Worm Manure. By monitoring the correct conditions for this process, the biology quickly mulitples and then inhabits the microscope pores of the biochar, ensuring that this product is full of ecosytem life that will immediately improve the quality of your soil and regenerate the soil food web that feeds healthy plants, people and planet.
How Do I Use Biochar?
Biochar can be used in a variety of ways to improve the soil health of both indoor and outdoor plants including:
- Mixing biochar into your soil in a ratio of 9 parts soil to 1 part biochar
- Using it as a top dressing around the base of plants (~1 quarter cup per plant)
- Using it as the soul or main component of potting media for epiphytes such as orchids
- Lining the bottom of your pot/planter with biochar to absorb excess drainage water while still keeping the water available for plants to use when they need it