Healthy garden…
                 fertile soil…
                           abundant harvests

Reconnect with nature’s hidden organic web of life in your garden… and connect with the healthiest, most productive strategies in organic gardening, strategies that will make your garden the envy of gardeners everywhere while protecting the earth

Your bounty—your payoff for gardening in harmony with the organic web of life—will be…

• Larger harvest…

• More flavorful, tastier produce…

• Healthier living…

• And ultimately much less work!

Dear Passionate Gardener,

Remember the joys of the old fashioned harvest? Plump, juicy tomatoes that tasted like tomatoes.

Creamy, succulent corn that bursts with sweet flavor in your mouth.

Crisp, firm cukes that snap when you bite into them.

Roses, azaleas, tulips, and lilies that please all your senses.

This is your bounty when you work in partnership with nature in your garden or small farm: You’ll serve your family health-building vegetables and fruits with pride and confidence in their nutritional value—and safety.

You’ll decorate your life and the lives of those around you with beautiful, award winning flowers, shrubs, plants, and trees.

This bounty can only come about when you understand the beautiful yet complex relationship of all the members of nature's hidden organic web: Bacteria, fungus, tiny single and multi-celled micro-organisms, earthworms, and animals small and large—including us humans.

This organic web of life and the bounty it brings thrives in healthy soil. But it struggles and eventually dies when attacked by the very chemical fertilizers, insecticides, fungicides, and tillage methods that are supposed to increase your harvests.

These artificial methods may improve your garden—for a short while. But ultimately, using them means you'll rely on chemicals and artificial support more and more. Using them means you'll spend more time fighting to keep your garden productive and your flowers beautiful.

This is our promise to you:

The Biochar-Gardener website is your one-stop, free resource for all the latest, most productive strategies for gardening in harmony with nature’s wisdom—a partnership with fertile soil and the all the members of the organic web of life.

And unlike any other organic gardening websites, we’ll show you how to harness an “ancient technology” that combines charcoal and gardening. This practice produced the rich, dark terra preta soils of the Amazon.

Modern research has transformed this ancient practice into a truly remarkable agricultural advance called biochar.

Biochar's payoff for your garden is this...

• Richer, more fertile soil...
  
  
• Crucial nutrients maintained near your plants' roots...
  
  
• Reduced need for watering, weed control, and use of poisons and chemicals...
  
  
• Vastly reduced nutrient leeching...
  
  
• Beneficial organisms in the organic web of life maintained at optimal balance...
  
  
• Better harvests. Healthier foods. Stronger, more beautiful plants and trees.

Armed with your knowledge of biochar and the organic web of life in your garden, you won’t have to rely on chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

Nature in balance will do your work for you. You won’t need to use artificial practices that subtly subvert and defeat nature’s plan—and that ultimately mean more work and lower yields.

Working in harmony with nature’s wisdom means understanding how all the parts fit together. Your Biochar Gardener website shows you how to promote the organic web of life in your garden, starting with the action of beneficial bacteria and fungi.

These micro-organisms provide an abundance of riches for your garden by breaking down organic matter, recycling it back into the soil.

You’ll learn how to support them by encouraging animals as small as single-celled protozoa and as complex as earthworms and small mammal.

We’ll show you how to keep these necessary parts of the web in balance by using compost, mulch, and permaculture strategies (also called no-till gardening).

When you maintain this web in balance, it supports nutrient retention, protecting your garden from the inevitable leaching that occurs in your garden from watering and natural rainfall.

Just like your garden, the Biochar Gardener website is a living, growing entity. Visit us often to learn of the latest developments in organic gardening and biochar.

Living in Harmony with Nature:
A 60-Year Old Perspective

"During the course of the campaign for the reform of agriculture, . . . I have not hesitated to question to soundness of present-day agricultural teaching and research—due to the failure to realize that the problems of farm and garden are biological rather than chemical. It follows, therefore, that the foundations on which the artificial manure and poison spray industries are based are also unsound.

". . . the earth's green carpet is not confined to its remarkable power of transforming the inert nitrates and mineral contents of the soil into an organic phase: it is utilized by Nature to establish for itself, in addition, a direct connection, a kind of living bridge, between its own life and the living portion of the soil."