Our global population is continuing to increase and with it the concern for nutrition and food security. Understanding how to increase food production and efficiency in a sustainable method is becoming increasingly important. Visionaries and advocates of space exploration believe the best answer is extraplanetary colonization. Martian regolith has been studied for its possibility of supporting agriculture and has been found to contain the essential nutrients needed for plant growth. While the Martian soil contains the necessary nutrients, the concentrations are not suitable enough to sustain crop growth for humans to survive. To overcome the nutrient deficiency, fertilizers will be required to increase crop production to sustainable amounts. The addition of biochar as an amelioration to the Martian soil may be a solution to the nutrient challenge in successfully growing crops on Mars and give further understanding of similar challenges as we continue to explore and settle throughout the cosmos.