Biochar: the renaissance of an ancient practice for a sustainable future HortNZ have kindly supported our workshop marketing activity with the inclusion of a followup story to the Robin Boom article published in their January edition of their magazine, NZGrower. … Continue reading
Reviving an ancient soil technology: Biochar Organic Winegrowers NZ have published an article in their latest “organic matters” magazine focused on biochar and supporting the biochar workshop tour coming up next month. All of the workshops are in wine or … Continue reading
Source: Pukekohe charcoal fire event to make biochar on Earth Day | Stuff.co.nz “The Pukekohe Anglican Parish is hosting a charcoal fire event for Earth Day on April 22, as part of the Anglican’s Action Network. The event, held at … Continue reading
And while I’m on the workshop article theme (last two posts), Biogro have also come out in support with a banner in their latest (March) newsletter. I can’t find a newsletter archive on their website so the best I can … Continue reading
Nelson Grape & Wine magazine have kindly published an article for ABE, ahead of the upcoming biochar workshop tour, and specifically, the Nelson workshop on 29 May at Kaimira Wines. As their past magazines are available from their website (but … Continue reading
I’ve been remiss is publishing posts to ABE this month. A few reasons for this: busy with the biochar workshop tour planning; laziness… its so much easy just to flick a news story to the ubiquity of facebook and the … Continue reading
Prof. Marta Camps-Arbestain has provided the following summary on current biochar related work taking place at NZBRC, Massey. Please contact Marta if you are interested in finding out more on any of these activities. PhD student: Stanislav Garbuz PhD research … Continue reading
Please follow this link for details: http://allblackearthevents.org.nz/ ABE would welcome your support for these events. Your support could be by way of attending, sponsoring or forwarding this announcement to anyone you think may be interested. … Continue reading
Australia New Zealand Biochar Conference 2017: Conference Proceedings Foreword “The Australia New Zealand Biochar Conference (ANZBC), held in Murwillumbah NSW, Australia in August 2017, saw the gathering of scientists, biochar producers, equipment manufacturers, farmers, enthusiasts and other potential biochar end-users. … Continue reading
NZ links in this important new review. Maybe this meshes nicely with previous post on potential biochar business models in NZ. You can read a review here at the Biochar Discussion Group. Effects of biochar application in forest ecosystems on … Continue reading