One Cubic Yard Sack of Genesis Biochar

Picture your soil becoming a lively ecosystem, bustling with microbial activity and essential nutrients. Genesis Biochar achieves precisely that. With a lifespan of hundreds of years in the soil, it serves as a reliable carbon sequestration method, aiding in the fight against climate change while enhancing soil fertility. When integrated into soil, Genesis Biochar resembles a sprawling city of mansions, offering ample space for life and nutrients to flourish. Its impact can be likened to the vital role coral reefs play in oceanic ecosystems. In essence, it transforms soil into a flourishing habitat conducive to robust plant growth and overall soil health.

Made in Montana, Genesis Biochar is a carbon-rich, porous material created by pyrolyzing white wood forest biomass in a high-temperature, low-oxygen environment. This process produces two types of carbon: stable carbon and labile carbon. The stable carbon is highly resistant to decomposition, remaining locked in the soil for hundreds, even thousands, of years, providing long-term carbon sequestration. The labile carbon, on the other hand, is more readily broken down by soil microbes, releasing nutrients that support microbial activity and plant growth in the short term.

Genesis Biochar is Biopreferred and OMRI Listed. It is 100% compliant with regenerative farming and sustainable organic practices, making it a powerful tool for soil enhancement. It significantly improves soil fertility, boosts water retention, and acts as a reliable carbon sequestration method. Biochar helps your soil retain essential nutrients like calcium, magnesium, and potassium through its high Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC), which prevents these nutrients from leaching away during rain or irrigation. By enhancing CEC, Genesis Biochar ensures that nutrients remain available to plants for longer periods, promoting healthier crops and soil.

In addition to increasing Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC), Genesis Biochar also increases Anion Exchange Capacity (AEC). AEC refers to the soil’s ability to retain negatively charged ions, such as nitrate, phosphate, and sulfate. By adding biochar, which has a high surface area and negatively charged particles, the soil can hold onto these essential nutrients more effectively, improving nutrient availability and retention. This increase in both CEC and AEC makes Genesis Biochar a powerful tool for improving overall soil health and ensuring that plants have access to both cations and anions for optimal growth.

Key Benefits of Genesis Biochar

• Boost Crop Yields: Genesis Biochar improves soil fertility, even in poor conditions, leading to higher crop yields.
• Fertilizer Efficiency: By increasing CEC and AEC, Genesis Biochar optimizes nutrient retention and reduces fertilizer runoff, leaching, and percolation.
• Moisture Retention: The high surface area of biochar helps the soil retain moisture, ensuring plant resilience during dry spells and reducing the need for frequent irrigation.
• Microbial Growth: Biochar creates a habitat for beneficial soil microbes, promoting healthy microbial populations essential for nutrient cycling, disease resistance, and the uptake of essential nutrients and micronutrients
• Disease Protection: Biochar helps protect against both foliar and soil-borne diseases, fostering healthier plants by enhancing soil structure and microbial activity.
• Nutrient Density: Biochar promotes the growth of nutrient-dense crops that are vital for human health and vitality.

Genesis Biochar is made in and shipped from Montana.

Please visit genesisbiochar.com to learn more about this amazing product and how to use it.

How much Genesis Biochar do you need: Calculation Chart

How To Use Bulk Genesis Biochar

Evaluating the condition of your soil is our recommend first step. Getting your soil lab tested is the only sure way to identify what your soil needs but observation can often be just as important.If your soil just needs long term conditioning then you can mix Genesis Biochar directly into your soil at a ratio of 5% to 10% to a depth below the root zone.

If your soil looks more like the surface of the moon than a black carbon rich soil, your application strategy may need to be more aggressive. Consider amending your soil with a mixture of 20% to 50% Genesis Biochar with compost and/or other amendment(s). If possible, keep the mix wet for a few days and let it stabilize as long as possible before mixing it into the soil. This will allow the amendments time to populate or“charge up” the Genesis Biochar. Mix it into the soil to a depth below the root zone. Water it well each day for a few days.
An even more effective technique is to soak your Genesis Biochar in compost tea or some other nutrient and microbial rich liquid amendments. This technique is referred to as inoculation. Inoculation charges up the Genesis Biochar thus accelerating the availability of the nutrient and microbial rich amendments to the plants. Let the mixture set a minimum of three days so it has time to stabilize. Inoculated Genesis Biochar can be mixed directly into the soil at a 5% to10% ratio or mixed with compost,other organic materials up to a 50% ratio then mixed into the soil.

Remember that the goal is to have 10% Genesis Biochar in your soil mixed it to a depth below the root zone. Make sure to water it well each day for a few days. Conditioning your soil with Genesis Biochar will help create the long term balance of carbon, nitrogen, micro-organisms and nutrients that plants need to thrive.