Introducing CharTerra

Newsletter No. 19 – Hello and Welcome to CharTerra!

We are eager to tell you about our changes, but more importantly, we want to know more about you and how we can help you, the serious biochar advocate, gardener, farmer or specialty biochar user.

In order to serve you better, CharTerra is focusing on premium biochars and larger product sizes, as this will be more economical for you the serious biochar user. Rob Lavoie, the founder of AirTerra is our Marketing Advisor, and he has a wealth of knowledge to share through our website and enquiries. My new role as President will include responding directly to your requests for products and biochar consulting needs. We are working with our suppliers and will soon be able to provide you with biochars for your 2023 spring planting needs.

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Biochar as an Ingredient for Animal Bedding prior to Composting

SoilMatrix Newsletter No. 18

The beneficial properties of biochar are greatly enhanced when amended into waste biomass such as manure and other agricultural or urban organic materials before being composted. The result is a compost that is teaming with beneficial microbes and charged with “controlled-release and stabilized” plant available nutrients.

In our very first newsletter (2017), we introduced the healthy plant-soil triangular relationships as described in this diagram.

Figure 1.   Plant Roots, Nutrients, Moisture, Microbiology, and Soil matrix Triangular Relationship

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World Soil Day – Celebrate by viewing the movie “Dirt Rich”

SoilMatrix Newsletter No. 14 (World Soil Day!)

In honor of the upcoming “World Soil Day”, December 5, 2018, this SoilMatrix newsletter is dedicated to the importance of soil for sustaining life on Earth.

As a way of entering into this celebration, we are providing a link to the newly released movie “Dirt Rich”, filmed and produced by Marcy Cravat of Passelande Pictures.   Dirt Rich is being premiered at Film Festivals all over North America and recently won the “Earth Shaker” award at the Maui Film Festival.

Passelane Pictures is partnering with Dr. Mercola’s team to freely stream this movie until October 12, 2018, after which it is available for purchase or rent.

To access the link to this free movie screening, click here.

To access the link to this free movie screening, click here.

SoilMatrix Garden – Summer 2016

Soil Matrix Garden – July 17, 2016

Probably one of the most rewarding activities on the planet – Gardening.   Throughout the summer of 2016, AirTerra will be featuring the SoilMatrix Garden.  Every two weeks a new photo of the garden will be posted to chart its progress.  The soil for this garden was prepared with a 10% blend of SoilMatrix biochar (by volume) with 90% good garden soil from Eagle Lake.  Blending was accomplished using a ground tarp that was pulled from side to side until the two ingredients were blended evenly (easer to accomplish with two people pulling the tarp).  Items in the foreground were planted from seedlings grown in a small greenhouse.   Items in the rows further away were planted from seed.  For example, Karin is standing beside the peas planted from seedlings, which are now standing 6 feet tall.   The peas planted as seeds are to the left in the second row of plants and they are catching up quickly!

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