https://void.cat/d/T1f2qqZL4XrNX8qRj7G2Ld.webp

Chart I will be using for my biochar presentation in Bastrop next week at Exit and Build. This is very much about time preference like Bitcoin is.

So the orange is biochar only and the red biochar plus Nitrogen based fertilizer. Light green is control (nothing) dark green was wood chips and orange just fertilizer.

Thing to understand for context is that this is aspen woodlands not a farm or a garden. The biochar used here was field made in simple kilns not fully crushed and just spread.

Year one you'd of said why bother, the fertilizer clearly did best. Year two fertilizer is still in the lead. Year three wood chips are fertilizer are close to tied, biochar and control are still losing. But biochar without fertilizer is closing the gap.

Wait what in year four? Biochar and fertilizer takes the lead and plain biochar has come a long way but still in 4th place. Year five, biochar with nothing rules all and by a considerable margin.

This was a university study not a random observation. There is some context needed to understand what is really going on here. I will explain it at Exit and Build so even if you can't come register for the free online part here https://bit.ly/eb-2023

But the macro is clear this was a one time application. Biochar done right builds soil for centuries and even millennia. It is all about time preference. In gardens and on farms we can compensate in the early years so it is never a loss, but what we are really doing is building forever fertility across time.

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