Compost

Digital version of the USBI Biochar In Compost Fact Sheet created in 2022

Improve compost and save money.

In this 48-minute film from NHK World Japan, learn how carbon farmers Gabe Brown in the US, Toshimichi Yoshida in Japan, and others are taking action against the climate crisis by employing regenerative agriculture or carbon farming.

Learn how Biochar Garden Genius, David Yarrow, builds rich garden beds on poor, compacted soils using biochar, minerals and microbes.

The simplest and most efficient method to biocharge your biochar is to simply mix it into your compost piles, stacking functions to benefit both the biochar and your compost.

Ideally, in composting you get paid a decent fee to receive, process and create a quality product. But what happens when it doesn’t go quite right ?

Both compost and biochar production are methods to utilize and recycle organic wastes.

Biochar has the potential to sequester carbon and improve the properties of soils when used as an agricultural amendment.

Visit this page for an index to a number of high quality biochar research reports and publications by the WSU Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources (CSANR).

Contents include:

This guideline was developed by the Umpqua Biochar Education Team for an NRCS Conservation Innovation Grant. The plant bioassay we use is a two week germination and growth test using cucumber seeds.

The Umpqua Biochar Education Team developed techniques for using biochar in composting for an NRCS Conservation Inn