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Is tap water safe to drink?
An ethics professor recommends secretly lacing public water supplies with psychoactive drugs like oxytocin
December 24, 2020
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Farm & Garden
Activated Charcoal Applications
Charcoal or Biochar
Charcoal (or Activated Charcoal) and Biochar are each vital land management tools. Whether it is for detoxifying poisoned soils, regulating moisture in soils, improving seed germination, encouraging knitting of newly transplanted sod, or to increase crop yields, all these benefits and more are available to the flower gardener and the tractor farmer through the amazing chemistry and physics of activated charcoal and biochar.
As we have time we will add more topics and links for those of you looking to improve your soils, save your exotic plants, or just interested in experimenting with new ideas.
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Biochar Potting Mix
A friend decided to try the Charcoal Green® Potting Mix with his spring bedding plants after seeing how it helped grow record Giant Pumpkins. For comparison he also planted some flowers in the leading national brand of potting mix. Here are a few backyard pictures he sent us.
June 5, 2019
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Biochar Revolution
This is just a brief look at activated charcoal and simple biochar (garden charcoal) and some of the ways it is employed in benefiting gardeners and the soil they grow their food in.
December 4, 2011
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Charcoal Gardens Experimental Farm
Charcoal Gardens was purchased in March 2013 initially as a recreational property. The property had never been lived on and was essentially open range for cattle. We spent the first year clearing away deadfall along Deep Creek, burning, gathering piles and piles of cow pies, building fence, and raking more piles and piles of Cottonwood leaves in the fall.
June 5, 2019
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Gardens & Farms
June 4, 2012
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Growing Record Giant Pumpkins – 2009
Hi, I grow giant pumpkins and grew this pumpkin shown in the attached picture. It will be officially weighed on Oct. 3rd. [weighed in at 1173lbs] I am happy to say I believe your product [Charcoal Green® BIOCHAR PLUS] helped play an important part in helping me to achieve a bigger pumpkin this year.
June 5, 2019
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Growing Record Giant Pumpkins – 2010
Last year Jeff came close to growing the state record for giant pumpkins in Illinois. This year he did more than come close! Congratulations Jeff!
Jeff didn’t tell us all his secrets but he did share one tip (works well for GIANT Watermelons too!)
June 5, 2019
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Growing Record Giant Pumpkins—2011
Last year Jeff grew the state record for giant pumpkins in Illinois. This year he did it again! In fact he won 1st and 3rd!!! (1156 lbs & 1097 lbs, for a total of 2253 lbs worth of pumpkin pie!) His tomatoes were pretty impressive too.
June 5, 2019
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Poinsettia Poisoning
We recently had a large commercial nursery operation call us in a panic. The season for poinsettias was rapidly approaching and their plants were beginning to droop and die off…thousands of them.
June 5, 2019
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Gardens & Farms
Terra Preta
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July 16, 2020
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