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Join us at the Community Allotment for a workshop all about Biochar, it's benefit to soil health, and the environment.Join us at Chagford Community Allotment on Saturday 4th May, 11.30-2.30pm for a workshop all about biochar. Nicky Scott and Graeme from Carbon Farmers will tell us all about this amazing carbon sequestering substance.
The topic of biochar has been increasingly discussed in recent years, particularly among passionate gardeners and growers who note the positive effects of biochar as a soil additive. According to the Royal Horticultural Society , its benefits include ‘neutralising acidity, providing improved water and nutrient retention (especially in sandy soils) and improved drainage and aeration’, plus acting as a growth medium for helpful soil microbes.
Biochar is produced by slowly heating organic material with very little oxygen supply, a technique that can be carried out at very small scales or at industrial levels in the modern day. It has been in use more than two thousand years, the ancient Amazonians who created ‘terra preta’ a rich black soil using this method to build stable soil in the thin rainforest soils and those soils are still sequestering carbon today. The form of burning that creates biochar actually keeps much of the carbon stored in the organic matter, sequestering carbon that would have otherwise generated carbon dioxide .
You will learn about making your own biochar and we will be cooking a simple lunch to share using a biochar stove, which whilst cooking will turn the wood that is burnt into valuable porous charcoal.
If you have any specific dietary requirements please can you let us know via email [email protected]
The allotment is located just above the Jubilee Park Play Area along the Rectory Track, please park in the public carpark just beside the Jubilee Park.
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New Street,Chagford,TQ13 8BB,GB, 32 New Street, Newton Abbot, TQ13 8BB, United Kingdom,Newton Abbot
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