Thank you so much for compiling and creating this site!

I somehow was only recently introduced to the idea of biochar as well. The question of whether charcoal would be detrimental, beneficial or neutral in soil has come up now and again over the years without any answers. Now that I know I'm definitely on that path and have been saving charcoal from wood stoves and burn piles. Next I need to make a grinder to reduce the size and figure out a way to make more of the abundant biomass of our 50 years post harvest forests which are choked with small, unhealthy and dead trees. I'm also very interested in producing a lot of charcoal to use in my blacksmith's forge. Easy cheap and effective technology for reasonable CLEAN charcoal production (i.e. buring off the gasses and chemicals produced in destructive distillation, smoke, and not just releasing them into the atmosphere in huge quantities) seems like a potential stumbling block. Looks like the biochar stove and various people working on wood gasifiers might come up with the kind of thing I need in that department. Maybe I'll try the trench method mentioned in that article and see what it's like in practice here. I'm excited to just try some experiments digging in charcoal in the meadows to see what the long term differences really are. Nice job on the web page. Saves a lot of time having someone compile those links for us.

Thanks Wil!

Oh yeah, I just was reading about this early nurseryman and entrepreneur who traveled to Oregon from April till fall in a couple of Wagons loaded with charcoal and soil in which to keep his nursery stock. He barely made it and set up a nursery where he planted the stock he had been "growing" in the wagons the whole trip and also some cherry seeds that he brought one of which grew up to become the variety Bing. Can't remember his name, but the charcoal thing was interesting.

Thank you wil, i put it on my faves so i can reserch it meselves later.
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