Our Story
From the black earth.
Kara begins where most things end—in the deep darkness of ancient organic matter, compressed by time into something extraordinary.
The Anatolian Origin
Seventy million years ago, the Tethys Sea retreated from what is now central Anatolia. In its wake, dense forests flourished and fell, their organic matter accumulating in layers over geological time. Under the pressure of mountains forming and continents shifting, this ancient carbon transformed.
The result is leonardite—not quite coal, not quite soil. A concentrated reservoir of humic substances that took millions of years to create. These deposits lie beneath the Anatolian plateau, one of the richest sources of high-quality leonardite in the world.
The name KARA comes from Turkish. It means black. You find it in kara toprak—black earth—the rich, dark soil that sustained civilizations across the Fertile Crescent for millennia. This is the soil that fed the first farmers, that made Anatolia the cradle of agriculture.
The Philosophy
Nigredo: The Blackening
In alchemical tradition, nigredo is the first stage of transformation. It is the blackening—the process of breaking down, of dissolution, of returning to essential elements before something new can emerge.
This is precisely what humic acid does in soil. It breaks down minerals. It dissolves barriers. It makes nutrients available that were locked away. Before growth, dissolution. Before life, transformation.
"Before growth, dissolution. From the black earth."
We chose this philosophy deliberately. Modern agriculture often chases quick fixes—synthetic fertilizers that bypass the soil's natural systems. KARA works differently. It works with the soil, enhancing its capacity to do what it has done for millions of years: transform death into life.
Why 100% Turkish Sourcing
Not all leonardite is equal. The humic content varies dramatically based on the geological conditions of its formation—temperature, pressure, the original organic material, the mineral content of surrounding rock.
Anatolian leonardite consistently tests among the highest concentrations of humic and fulvic acids in the world. The specific conditions of this region—the ancient Tethys Sea deposits, the particular mix of flora that accumulated, the volcanic activity that provided trace minerals—created something exceptional.
We source exclusively from verified Turkish deposits, maintaining direct relationships with the geological operations that extract this material. Every batch is tested for humic content, fulvic ratio, and trace mineral profile before it becomes KARA.
70M
Years of formation
100%
Turkish origin
5:2
Humic to fulvic
60+
Trace minerals