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EcoRadio KC
EcoRadio KC is a magazine show, including live segments, prerecorded stories, and interviews. The weekly explores our interdependence with the rest of the world, showing the connections between the ways we choose to live and the health of the whole community of life.
Marty Kraft, local biochar enthusiast, works with Tracy Garden, a no-till community garden that showcases biochar and carbon smart gardening. Host Brent Ragsdale will speak with Marty about the assets of biochar.
Biochar is produced when plant matter, manure, or other organic material is heated in a zero- or low-oxygen environment. Biochar is a charcoal-like material and when it is added to soil, the effect is to remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it underground, where the carbon does not contribute to global warming. Biochar also brings agricultural benefits by boosting soil’s fertility and ability to withstand drought or flooding; it can also rid soil of heavy metals and other pollutants.
