Biochar (aka Dark Earth)

American Indians have used it for centuries to create rich soil and grow better crops. Now its the newest 'discovery' of American academics. Its Biochar, the carbon rich end-product of the slow burning (pyrolysis) of organic matter, which can vastly improve soil for plants. When mixed with soil, biochar greatly increases water capacity, promotes the growth of soil life, and lasts for thousands of years.

But isn't that what natural grasslands have been doing for millenia? (Hint: Yes.) But wouldn't that be a way to sequester carbon in this age of 'climate change'? (Hint: Oh yah.)

"We are involved now in a profound failure of imagination. Most of us cannot imagine the wheat beyond the bread, or the farmer beyond the wheat, or the farm beyond the farmer, or the land beyond the farm." Wendell Berry