In Hawaii, the island of Maui was recently devastated by forest fires.¹

Back in 2020, the Australian wildfires were declared “one of the worst wildlife disasters in modern history,” claiming over 12 million hectares of land.²³

California had a quiet fire season in 2023 — only around 5,500 fires, consuming over 250,000 acres. That’s less than a quarter of the five-year average.⁴

Forest fires by themselves aren’t an existential danger. They are a part of the natural life cycle, and can contribute positively to the environment.

But fires larger than 40,000 hectares — are different. These more intense fires can decrease an ecosystem’s vitality up to 50%.⁵

That can be enough to tip a forest over the breaking point — turning it into prairie, or desert.

This is even more likely if the forest is already stressed — by warmer weather, by drier climate, by invasive species, or any of the other modern issues forests face.

That’s part of the reason why so many attempts to reseed forests end in failure. Very few seedlings grow or survive after a fire in this size range— let alone thrive.

But one tiny microcap believes they’ve found a way to use a long-forgotten ancient farming technique to change that.

This technique uses a substance originally discovered deep in the Amazon, where it formed naturally.

Called biochar, this substance acts like a sponge.

It’s essentially charcoal made out of biological material — not too dissimilar from the charcoal inside your water filter.

Just as that charcoal traps impurities as water passes through, biochar can trap anything added to it.

This makes it an ideal additive for plant growth.

Biochar can also be charged with water — holding it in place like a sponge.

This allows new growth a chance to take root in devastated landscapes, which otherwise often sees rainfall flooding downhill, carrying topsoil with it.

Biochar can be charged with nitrogen or other fertilizers — again, holding it in place, so it doesn’t wash into and pollute rivers and streams, but instead stays where it’s needed and can be easily bio-accessible for any growing plants.

Biochar itself is almost entirely made of carbon — making it one of the essential ingredients for plant life, and indeed, all life.

But perhaps best of all, biochar creates the ideal environment for the micro-organisms, mycelia, and fungi that are the backbone of healthy soil. It provides a home, and food, for these microbiomes in otherwise-sterile or heat-sterilzed areas.

That underground microbiome is what makes for a healthy forest floor — and represents a way to kickstart a thriving base ecosystem, upon which the forest can rebuild.

One microcap has realized this potential and wants to scale up these smaller examples and introduce biochar to the mass market.

Governments and local municipalities are actively asking for a solution.

And now, thanks to a recent partnership with the largest biochar producer in Canada, this company can provide one.

But we’ve just scratched the surface of what biochar can do.

By the time this agtech is fully scaled up, companies like this company could capture a significant corner of the $4 trillion agricultural business.

Because biochar doesn’t just hold enormous promise in helping forests recover.

It also…

• Can recharge infertile land, and increase crop yields, as the best organic soil additive around. It often takes 3-5 years of treatments to see full effects, but the effects can be enormous — from vegetables coming in at twice the size, to barren landscapes bearing fruit once again.
• Can help clean pollution from the ground — just like the charcoal in your water filter can clean your water. It’s already in use around Canada’s lighthouses — which were leaching lead from old paint into the surrounding waters. No more — thanks to biochar.
• Stops fertilizer run-off — as all the fertilizer remains locked in place, available for the plants they were meant to help in the first place.
• Acts as carbon sequestration. Creating biochar — from trimmings and wood waste, in the case of this company — sequesters 50% of the carbon that would largely be released into the atmosphere otherwise.
• Cuts down on the carbon load of concrete. Mixing up to 10% biochar cuts down on the pollution involved in creating concrete, without affecting performance. Indeed, some studies have shown biochar may actually improve the performance of concrete, much as the volcanic ash of classical Rome made Roman concrete particularly strong.⁶
• Has over 50 known uses… with new ones being discovered every day.

Helping make forest more resilient to fire might be the most important use.

But some would argue, biochar’s agricultural applications hold that distinction.

A Solution for Our Revitalizing Agricultural Lands

Biochar can potentially help remediate soil that’s beginning to lose mineral content. It is even being studied as a way to make deserts into arable land once again.

The beauty of biochar is it can be charged with just about any healthy substance you want — from nutrient-rich manure, to existing colonies of micro-organisms that can seed the soil.

If you want to use it to regrow forests, it is perfect for that.

If you want to grow crops with award-winning yields, it can do that too.

Biochar allows you to put exactly what you want into the soil — without worrying about run-off, without concern about soil depletion.

Because you have given your soil a natural booster shot. One that builds over time, as the micro-organisms it encourages lead to the production of healthy topsoil, and a healthy soil ecosystem with nutrients readily available for growing plants.

For small gardens, 10% biochar is the ideal blend. At that ratio, farmers report vegetables double the previous size — with multiple award-winners at state fairs.

For larger plots, the biochar is usually mixed in 1-3% a year, over the course of a few years.

After 3-5 years, those large plots show similar improvements in yields.

That’s because biochar is like a power pellet for plant growth.

And it’s not just the nutrients that biochar carries, either.

Biochar itself is made of carbon — one of the essential ingredients for life.

A single application of biochar can help revive land, slowly.

But repeated applications over the course of years can completely transform the ecosystem.

Making once-infertile fields fertile again.

Giving already-fertile fields a yield boost.

Not to mention, creating a recurring customer base for biochar producers and distributors.

Biochar may have the potential to solve many of humanity’s food and land management issues going forward…

But it has its roots deep in the Amazonian past.

Like Many Great Inventions, Biochar Was an Accidental Discovery

The Amazon rainforest is the largest, densest rainforest in the world.

Consequently, it’s home to a few quirky phenomena.

One of these phenomena was the creation of biochar.

How does that happen?

Biochar is simply any plant matter that roasts in an anaerobic environment — one without oxygen.

When in an oxygen environment, plant matter at high temperatures combusts — releasing all of its carbon into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, leaving behind only ash.

When plant matter is heated to combustible levels, but without the presence of oxygen, all of that carbon stays sequestered in the biochar left behind.

The Amazon, with its dense wet jungle, provided plenty of opportunities for plant matter to get roasted by forest fires, but sealed in anaerobic areas — usually due to the density of foliage laying above it on the forest floor.

The early Amazonian people noticed that, even in the lush Amazon, the areas around this biochar were particularly verdant, with abnormally large plants of unusual vitality.

The local people figured out how to make biochar themselves, and used it on their farms.

And this company is cornering this still-small corner of the agtech market by following this traditional method.

The First Mover Advantage, in a Can’t Miss Industry

As the best nutrient delivery system yet discovered…

Combined with the healthy micro-biome that this company can deliver, pre-installed in biochar…

This company’s organic biochar is ready to revolutionize the organic fertilizer industry.

Not as a replacement — but as an additive.

This company can provide biochar combined with manure — which has the added bonus of having no scent since all the nutrients are locked in the biochar.

It can provide biochar combined with nitrogen- or phosphate-rich nutrient profiles, or it can provide biochar that has already had micro-organism colonies cooking and ready to spread, creating healthy soil wherever they are laid.

It can provide biochar already charged with water to help quench thirsty plants in droughts… or it can come without that charge to help capture rainfall and prevent flash floods.

This company is already developing its own biochar-manufacturing devices. Both for use in production facilities, and mobile devices that can go right to scenes of need, like recent forest fires.

This company’s biochar can be custom-charged for different purposes — creating the most powerful organic additive we’ve yet seen.

Partially because this is the first organic additive of its kind we’ve ever seen. There is no competing product like biochar out there.

Even Dubai has shown interest in it, as a way to potentially reclaim the desert.

This is an exciting young agtech industry — one without many established players, or even an established market.

The overall market is still in the discovery phase, as scientific study of the benefits of biochar only recently revealed how powerful this substance can be.

As word spreads, this company believes demand will skyrocket.

To keep up with forest regeneration projects alone, thousands of industrial-size biochar generators would need to be built.

That market alone would lead to explosive growth for the few early biochar companies like this one.

If you understand the potential transformative power of biochar, and its multiple applications…

Most of which are cleaner, cheaper, and more sustainable than the alternative…

With the potential to cut down on greenhouse gases, cut down on fertilizer use, cut down on energy costs, cut down on run-off and pollution, all while helping ecosystems recover…

And while creating the sorts of crops that win state fairs…

Then enter your email address below to learn more about this innovative young company.