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
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
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
Kay from Koanga Institute demonstrates how they are incorporating biochar into a BSF system. I think this system may have come from Dr Paul Olivier in Vietnam. http://epwt.vn/en/home/ … Continue reading
I’ve posted before on Royal Society discussion on biochar (try a search on ‘royal society’). I missed this important report [linked here] when it was released last year. A search on ‘biochar’ in the report pulls some results. Here are … Continue reading
Cam Smith has been working with biochar for a number of years on his permaculture farm near Waiuku. His latest avocado planting project is an endorsement of his confidence in biochar as an important component of his future commercial plans. He’s … Continue reading
The Australia New Zealand Biochar Conference 2017 took place at Murwillumbah Civic Centre and Showgrounds, NSW, Australia from 10th to 12th of August. Information about the program and presenters is available from the conference website. My overall impression of the … Continue reading
Countdown to ANZBC17!! G’day Folks, As we countdown the weeks to ANZBC17, a reminder to submit your 30 or 20 minute presentation as well as your two page abstract or picture/ dot point summary by July 31st. This will ensure … Continue reading
Kay Baxter identifies biochar as an important component of her soil development and gardening strategy. It would be great to hear other folks ideas and experiences in NZ. http://www.koanga.org.nz/kaysgardenblogbiocharjan2017/ “….then we added 5kgs of CHARGED biochar per sq m and … Continue reading