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Biochar, Climate Change and the Power of Everyone Doing a Little
Category: News, Soil & Growing Systems
England’s Progress in improving the natural environment 2024/2025 report is clear: while environmental ambition is strong, delivery is not…
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Soil Organic Carbon, Biochar and Climate-Resilient Landscapes
Category: Guides, News
As climate change accelerates, the resilience of our landscapes is becoming a defining challenge for agriculture, land management, and…
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How Biochar Supports Durable Carbon Sequestration
Category: Commercial Grower, FAQs, News, Turf Management
Biochar plays a unique role in durable carbon sequestration by stabilising carbon in a form that can remain in soils…
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Biochar in Aquifers: A Breakthrough for Sustainable Groundwater Management
Category: Case Studies, News
Groundwater is the backbone of global water security, supplying nearly half of the world’s drinking water and a large share…
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Enriched Biochar and Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG): A Nature-Based Solution for Development
Category: News
As the UK prepares for the rollout of mandatory Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) requirements, developers, planners, and land managers are…
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Biochar Commercial ROI: A New Frontier in Business Benefits
Category: News
In a rapidly evolving marketplace, businesses are constantly seeking cost savings, improved brand reputation, and ways to future-proof their operations.…
Read More Biochar for Community Impact: A Shared Vision for Social Change
Category: FAQs, Garden and Home, Gardening Tips, Growing Guides, Guides, News
Around the world, local organisations, schools, and neighbourhood groups are seeking ways to revitalise green spaces, teach sustainable practices, and…
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Biochar for Corporate Sustainability: A Path to Lower Carbon Footprints
Category: FAQs, Guides, News
In a world where corporate social responsibility is no longer optional, companies are under pressure to reduce their carbon footprint,…
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Biochar for Sports Turf: A Game-Changer in Turf Management
Category: Case Studies, FAQs, Guides, News, Turf Management
Maintaining healthy, resilient playing surfaces is crucial for sports facilities, whether it’s a football pitch, golf course, or local athletic…
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Fuelling Horticultural Growth with Biochar
Category: FAQs, Garden and Home, Gardening Tips, Growing Guides, News, Tree Care
Maintaining vibrant ornamental displays, healthy lawns, and lush landscapes is essential in modern horticulture. Yet factors like nutrient depletion, extreme…
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Transforming Agriculture with Biochar for Regenerative Farming
Category: Commercial Grower, Growing Guides, News
Agriculture is under increasing pressure to produce more food with fewer resources, all while minimising environmental impact. It offers a powerful…
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The Science Behind Biochar: Unlocking Soil Health and Carbon Sequestration
Category: Garden and Home, Guides, News, Tree Care, Turf Management
Biochar Soil Solutions are transforming the way we think about soil enhancement, carbon capture, and sustainable farming. With climate change…
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Carbon Gold: A Pioneer in Biochar and Sustainable Solutions
Category: FAQs, Guides, News
Carbon Gold is at the forefront of harnessing the power of biochar to deliver better soil health, combat climate change,…
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Leading Biochar Brand Carbon Gold Announces Partnership with Westland Horticulture.
Category: News
Carbon Gold, the world’s leading biochar brand, is proud to announce a new partnership with Westland Horticulture Ltd. Carbon Gold…
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Black Magic : Green Benefits of Carbon Gold Biochar
Category: FAQs, Guides, News
Carbon Gold is setting new standards in gardening, landscaping, arboriculture as well as agriculture and forestry. The benefits of Carbon…
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The Imperative Shift to Organic and Natural Fertilisers: Beyond Synthetic Options
Category: Guides, News
In the contemporary landscape of environmental consciousness, the selection of fertilisers for agricultural and horticultural use is increasingly critical. The…
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Soil Health: Should be a Top Priority in 2024
Category: FAQs, Guides, News
In the ever-evolving landscape of environmental awareness and sustainability, 2024 has marked a significant turning point in our understanding and…
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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…
Read More 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.
Category: News
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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Good Shopping Guide - Ethical Certification
Category: News
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
Category: FAQs, News
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…
Read More Feed your soil - The Biochar Revolution
Category: News
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!
Category: News
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
Category: News
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…
Read More 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
Category: News
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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The Bexley Charter Oak – Nine months on
Category: Case Studies, News, Tree Care
In November 2017 Carbon Gold and Apex Tree Surgeons teamed up to treat the Bexley Charter Oak. Less than a…
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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…
Read More 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…
Read More Carbon Gold warns of inferior imitations as demand for biochar booms
Category: News
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
Category: News
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'
Category: News
“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…
Read More Carbon Gold highlights urban tree survival rates
Category: News
Soil quality and compaction, poor air quality, increasingly wild weather conditions and disease pose an enormous threat to urban trees. …
Read More Grow organic, save the planet
Category: News
Solving global warming was never going to be easy, but it would be a heck of a lot easier if…
Read More 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…
Read More One Show garden's turf takes root at Bath Carers' Centre
Category: News
The Carers’ Centre supports anyone in Bath & North East Somerset who cares for a family member or loved one.…
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How does biochar so effectively control nematodes?
Category: News
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
Category: News, Tree Care
Carbon Gold and Bartlett Tree Experts are warning of an impending outbreak of lethal tree diseases in the wake of…
Read More Writtle College wins gold in Young Gardeners of the Year at the Ideal Home Show 2014
Category: News
A team of FE horticulture students are celebrating after winning gold in the Young Gardeners of the Year competition! The…
Read More GIY (Grow it Yourself) launches in the UK
Category: News
GIY UK Gathering 2013 in association with Carbon Gold. Speakers include Alys Fowler, Rachel de Thample, Mark Diacono and Maddy…
Read More Counting Carbon
Category: News
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
Category: News
25 September 2012: UK Gardeners can save 25.5 million litres of water – that’s 3.6 million x 7 litre watering cans…
Read More Green Entrepreneur of the Year award for biochar-based garden products
Category: News
2 March 2011: The GroChar biochar-based range, of two growing composts and a garden soil improver, have been rewarded with…
Read More Green your plant soil with biochar - ABC News
Category: News
26 August 2010: Using pyrolysis an organisation called re:char is using a soil amendment called biochar that not only improves production,…
Read More Interview with Craig Sams - Financial Times
Category: News
15 February 2010: Craig Sams, founder of Carbon Gold, features in the Financial Times Business diary. Craig Sams…
Read More Interview with Craig Sams - Independent on Sunday
Category: News
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
Category: News
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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