Biochar & Soil Health

Watch as Elizabeth Steele explains what biochar is and how it is important to soil health in native grasslands.  This topic will be of interest to a wide audience who enjoys learning about soil health and/or native grasslands.  

This talk was given as part Hamilton Native Outpost’s 2020 field day. Every year Hamilton Native Outpost has a field day to share knowledge of native plants.  This year the topic was “Diversity of Plants: Stronger Together than Alone.”  Speakers discussed the C-value system, how animals benefit from grazing a diversity of plants, how cool and warm season plants are better together in the same field for sunlight and carbon dioxide capture, the importance of biochar to soils, diversity of roots in a diverse native grassland, and creating a native silvopasture.  While this field day was focused on forages, the topics covered appeal to many interest areas.

Other Videos from the Field Day

A diversity of plants is stronger together than alone was the theme from the 2020 field day. Watch more videos from this day:

• An Ecologist’s View on How the World Works
• Why Plant Diversity is Good for Livestock
• Warm & Cool Season Plant Diversity
• Looking Underground at the Benefits of Diversity
• Silvopasture for Livestock