The Power of Charcoal: Making Your Pet & Garden Happy

Description: Charcoal is a versatile, high- surface area product that has been used for thousands of years for everything from poison control to increasing soil fertility. Recently, it has become the hot new additive you’ve seen in household items like toothpaste and soap.  Due to activated charcoal’s high surface area, it can both capture desirable elements (like water and nutrients around a plant’s roots) or lock away undesirables (like unpleasant odours). Jamie Bakos is an environmental engineer, and has been working and learning about biochar and activated charcoal for the past 18 years.  He will discuss how it is used in a wide variety of applications from soil amendment to air and water filtration, why it works, and what it can do for you.