[Terrapreta] Charcoal Injector

[Jeff Davis]

Dear Wayne,

Now that would be WONDERFUL NEWS!

Jeff



Wayne wrote:
> Getting charcoal into a perennial agricultural system is a
> fascinating problem, but maybe one where we don't have to do
> much work.  Generally perennial systems, especially those
> with some plant diversity, promote a high population of
> worms that move organic material throughout the upper soil
> profile, and sometimes even into the B-horizon.  If you were
> to spread finely crushed char, not just dust, but the
> largest particles about 2mm in diameter, mixed with compost
> or mulching materials, worms would surface to feed from the
> bottom carrying the char into the profile.  In this way you
> would not have to use fossil fuels to do the work.  If you
> can rely on nature, why not?  It does call for some
> experimental work in a switchgrass or other perennial system
> to test, but the result could be telling for a broad swath
> of the landscape.

-- 
Jeff Davis

Some where 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA