The Future is BioChar

Metzler pureCHAR biochar is pyrolized mixed hardwood fiber that has numerous benefits as a soil or compost amendment, animal production aid, stormwater management product or carbon sink in building products.

Biochar also sequesters carbon.  The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recgonizes biochar as one of the few systems that is shovel ready and scaleable to efficienlty remove carbon from the atmosphere.

Biochar has been found in soil layers of acient cultures.  Our ancestors made the same carbon product we use today from their waste vegitative material in dirt covered mounds and applied it to their soil.

The process of pyrolysis superheats biomass to extremely high tempratures in the presence of little to no oxygen.

Our state-of-the-art rotary kiln converts biomass (wood in our case) through time and temperature to a carbon product that makes beneficial nutrients more available and helps with water retention in soil, and more. 

Yes!  Our pureCHAR biochar is made from local sawmill co-products using a self sustaining process that requires no fossil fuels and last for hundreds of years.

Biochar has tons of uses across many industry sectors. In the livestock industry—especially poultry production—it’s valued for its ability to adsorb water and ammonia, and retain nutrients in litter or manure. It’s also a powerful soil enhancer when inoculated with compost or compost tea, making it popular among gardeners and regenerative agriculture advocates.

In construction, biochar is gaining traction for its role in sustainable building materials. It’s being explored as an additive in asphalt and concrete production, where it can improve durability while reducing the carbon footprint. Biochar also plays a role in stormwater management by holding nutrients and metals on-site, helping to prevent runoff pollution. Additional emerging uses include bio-based polymers and capping orphaned gas wells.

Biochar is not a fertilizer, but the honeycomb of carbon makes fertilizer more effective for your planting projects. Biochar is best added 10% by volume when making compost, or added 15% by volume to your favorite compost and left to rest together for several weeks.  You can also innocoulate biochar with your favorite compost tea.

For poultry production, adding biochar as a top dressing 3% by volume to fresh bedding, or a top dressing 12 Cubic Yards for every 20,000 Square Feet of layered litter.  Biochar reduces moisture and ammonia in production facilities or your backyard chicken coup, making birds healier and the litter a better fertilizer.

For cattle, biochar can be added to the bedding to reduce moisture, used as a barn dry product or added to water to limit algae.

You can purchase Metzler pureCHAR biochar and our other biochar products loose bulk, in 2 CY super sacks, or cubic foot bags at The Landscape Center at Metzler, 26 Timber Lane, Reedsville PA 17084.  Also, feel free to call 717-667-2924 to discuss all things biochar or schedule a bulk or super sack delivery or pick up.