When something seems almost too good to be true, it usually is too good to be true. But there are always exceptions to every rule. So you ask, holding out hope, what if there really was a panacea right here on Cape Cod for many of the ills that inflict our environment? What if there was something that would take all the agricultural waste here on the Cape, from tree trunks to brush, just about anything that sent roots down into the Cape’s sandy till, and crazy as it sounds, cleanly and efficiently turned it into something that would make the Cape’s sandy soil fertile? And in the process also would make plants stronger, healthier, and therefore better-tasting. Not only that, but you could feed it not just to plants, but to animals, and it would it would have the same effect. Chickens and cows would be healthier (and therefore better-tasting.)
This supposed silver bullet is biochar and it may or may not be too good to be true. On Cape Cod, biochar is being manufactured by Bob Wells and the company he founded in 2009, New England BioChar, on a six-acre farm in Eastham, back in the woods abutting the national seashore, and Wells makes a pretty good case for it being true.
This supposed silver bullet is biochar and it may or may not be too good to be true. On Cape Cod, biochar is being manufactured by Bob Wells and the company he founded in 2009, New England BioChar, on a six-acre farm in Eastham, back in the woods abutting the national seashore, and Wells makes a pretty good case for it being true.