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What are the long-term effects of using enriched biochar on soil health?
Category: FAQs, Guides, News
Enriched biochar, when used as a soil amendment, can have several long-term effects on soil health. Enriched biochar is known…
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The Art of Structural Soils using the Stockholm Tree Pit Method
Category: FAQs, News, Tree Care
Picture a bustling city street, where the rhythm of life pulses through the veins of concrete and asphalt. Yet, beneath…
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Carbon Gold achieves ISO:14001, international standard in environmental management.
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As a world-leading manufacturer of biochar-based soil improvers, we are proud to announce that Carbon Gold has been certified for…
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We are working to make the world a Greener Place, One Tree at a Time
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At Carbon Gold, we’re not content to simply sit back and watch the world burn (figuratively speaking, of course). We’re…
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Good Shopping Guide - Ethical Certification
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The new certifications for Carbon Gold are coming thick and fast this year, and we have now been awarded…
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Made in Britain certification
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Carbon Gold, known for their innovative soil improvers and gardening products, has just been awarded Made in Britain certification. Made…
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Carbon Gold named as BALI Accredited Supplier
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Carbon Gold has been approved as a BALI Accredited Supplier. The British Association of Landscape Industries is the leading Trade…
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Carbon Gold achieves Good Business Charter accreditation
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The Good Business Charter is an initiative of the Good Business Foundation. The Confederation of British Industry and the Trades…
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Feed your soil - The Biochar Revolution
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When my great grandfather “Ole Doxtad” ploughed the virgin Nebraska prairie of Dakota County in 1885 those rich loess soils…
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Recycling and Reusing Compost
Category: Garden and Home, Guides, News
In 2021 around 2.3 million cubic metres of peat was sold for home garden use in the UK according to…
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We are Carbon Neutral!
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We are delighted to announce that Carbon Gold has now achieved Carbon Neutral status! Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions from activities…
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Guest blog: The Blackberry Garden
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We’re thrilled to have Alison at The Blackberry Garden telling us all about her experiences cultivating a wild garden. It’s…
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Independent world-leading tree experts: Carbon Gold is simply the best
Category: Case Studies, News, Tree Care
Professional tree care is a serious business, and the world leaders are of course the Dutch. Terra Nostra is the…
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Carbon Gold launches Biology Blend its most supercharged natural planting aid
Category: Case Studies, Garden and Home, News
World leading enriched biochar producer Carbon Gold has created the best natural planting aid for your garden – especially for…
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250 trees saved using enriched biochar and deep-soil decompaction
Category: Case Studies, News, Tree Care
Apex Soil Solutions, the Ringwood-based tree health business, has successfully treated 250 trees using its deep-soil Geo-Injector and Carbon Gold’s…
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Root Mat - How to Reduce Severity with Biochar
Category: Case Studies, Commercial Grower, Garden and Home, News
Carbon Gold’s enriched biochar has been confirmed to dramatically reduce the effects of root mat in the commercial stage of…
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Bomenbank launches Lifechar – the next generation of Amsterdam tree soil
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The world leader in tree planting, Nationale Bombenbank BV has launched an enriched biochar-based tree soil product at the urban…
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Agrovista partners with Carbon Gold as UK Distributor
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Agrovista has been supplying farmers with innovative agricultural products and services for over 35 years, so it’s safe to say…
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The Bexley Charter Oak – Nine months on
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In November 2017 Carbon Gold and Apex Tree Surgeons teamed up to treat the Bexley Charter Oak. Less than a…
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Carbon Gold achieves conscientious business certification
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Carbon Gold, the Bristol-based supplier of enriched biochar to the retail, arb and grower markets in the UK and Europe,…
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Sherriff Amenity announced as UK distributor of Turf lmprover
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Sherriff Amenity is delighted to announce that it is now the exclusive UK distributor of Carbon Gold’s Enriched Biochar Turf…
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Reviving Bexley’s Charter Oak
Category: Case Studies, News, Tree Care
After the Great Storm of 1987, Londoners were asked to nominate the capital’s leading landmark trees. Over 40 were officially…
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Biology answers back
Category: Case Studies, Commercial Grower, News
An excerpt of the original article ‘Biology Answers Back’, The Commercial Greenhouse Grower, November 2017 pg. 23. In the case…
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Carbon Gold warns of inferior imitations as demand for biochar booms
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Organic farmers have long been the pioneers of new growing methods that maintain productivity without a cocktail of chemicals. And…
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Promising results from European biochar trials
Category: Commercial Grower, News
“When it comes to plant disease, prevention is always going to be better than curative measures. Costs increase with each…
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Never too old to try...
Category: News, Tree Care
Britain’s beautiful countryside is made all the more magical by the few ancient trees that have witnessed the country evolve…
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Crops that don’t cost the Earth
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Half of all nitrate fertiliser never gets taken up by a plant, not even by weeds, it just washes into…
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Natural soil treatment 'could help trees resist ash dieback'
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“Trees could be protected from the devastating ash dieback disease with the help of a natural soil treatment, researchers have…
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Turning over a new leaf
Category: FAQs, Guides, News, Tree Care
In the UK, nearly one in three new trees planted in urban environments dies within its first year; a figure…
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Carbon Gold highlights urban tree survival rates
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Soil quality and compaction, poor air quality, increasingly wild weather conditions and disease pose an enormous threat to urban trees. …
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Grow organic, save the planet
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Solving global warming was never going to be easy, but it would be a heck of a lot easier if…
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The Edible Bus Stop® - Transforming the forgotten and neglected sites across London’s Transport Network into community growing, design-led spaces.
Category: Garden and Home, News
Turning busy London bus stops into gardens where people are more than happy to while away the inevitable wait, Mak…
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Carbon Gold’s Soil Improver boosts yields for Vitacress Tomatoes
Category: Case Studies, Commercial Grower, News
A biochar-based soil improver, enriched with species of mycorrhizal fungi, actinomyces bacteria and trace elements is helping to combat the…
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One Show garden's turf takes root at Bath Carers' Centre
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The Carers’ Centre supports anyone in Bath & North East Somerset who cares for a family member or loved one.…
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Tei Tei Taveuni regenerate island’s soils with locally produced biochar
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Tei Tei Taveuni is an NGO formed by a group of farmers with an interest in sustainable farming, soil regeneration,…
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How does biochar so effectively control nematodes?
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There is increasing evidence that biochar in the soil can lead to dramatic reductions and even complete elimination of root-eating…
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Britain’s wettest winter on record threatens nation’s trees
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Carbon Gold and Bartlett Tree Experts are warning of an impending outbreak of lethal tree diseases in the wake of…
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Writtle College wins gold in Young Gardeners of the Year at the Ideal Home Show 2014
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A team of FE horticulture students are celebrating after winning gold in the Young Gardeners of the Year competition! The…
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Bob Flowerdew tries biochar!
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“When I heard that a type of charred-earth type product was being sold, I wanted to trial it. I anticipated…
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GIY (Grow it Yourself) launches in the UK
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GIY UK Gathering 2013 in association with Carbon Gold. Speakers include Alys Fowler, Rachel de Thample, Mark Diacono and Maddy…
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Counting Carbon
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The planet is heating-up and humans are the cause. There was a time when only ‘green’ campaigners were urging temperature-reducing…
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Get your seeds off to the best start this season with biochar
Category: Garden and Home, News
As the 2013 growing season begins, with hopes for more sunshine and less rain then 2012, gardeners, allotment holders and…
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How biochar can stop nutrients leaching from your soil
Category: Garden and Home, News
Biochar can be used to stop nutrients leaching from your soil, as discuused by Simon Manley, CEO of Carbon Gold,…
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Water up to 30% less with GroChar composts
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25 September 2012: UK Gardeners can save 25.5 million litres of water – that’s 3.6 million x 7 litre watering cans…
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Green Entrepreneur of the Year award for biochar-based garden products
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2 March 2011: The GroChar biochar-based range, of two growing composts and a garden soil improver, have been rewarded with…
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Green your plant soil with biochar - ABC News
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26 August 2010: Using pyrolysis an organisation called re:char is using a soil amendment called biochar that not only improves production,…
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Interview with Craig Sams - Financial Times
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15 February 2010: Craig Sams, founder of Carbon Gold, features in the Financial Times Business diary. Craig Sams…
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Interview with Craig Sams - Independent on Sunday
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27 September 2009: Craig Sams made his fortune – and changed our eating habits – with Green & Black’s chocolate. Now…
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Craig Sams responds to biochar critics, The Guardian
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8 September 2009: Craig Sams responds to critics of the nascent biochar sector. He writes: ‘We need to make sure we…
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