Dr. John McDonald-Wharry will be speaking on biochar at the next Bioenergy Association conference on the 17 November 2015 at Waikato University. http://www.bioenergy.org.nz/event/advances-biofuel-market-opportunities Biochar is well integrated into the Bioenergy Australian. It is good to see some recognition and profiling … Continue reading
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Stunning results and always good science coming from Hans-Peter’s work. It may not represent NZ industrial agriculture but there is a lot to learn from this short video. http://sea-biochar.blogspot.my/2015/10/farm-scale-biochar-production-biochar.html Hans-Peter summarizes his recent work in Nepal which covers simple biochar … Continue reading
I plan to circulate a capability and cost questionnaire to testing laboratories in NZ very soon. A template for this Q-aire can be viewed for here. Your comments welcome. I am also exploring options for sending samples overseas. Please let … Continue reading
I’m sure we can learn a lot about how to establish a forestry based biochar project from this work in the USA. It would be good to get some feed-back from NZ foresters and farm-forest groups on what is shown … Continue reading
From Kathleen Draper at the Biochar Journal… An invitation to join us for CHARdays: June 18 – 21 Hello biochar community – We’d like to invite all of your to join us for the first (hopefully annual) CHARdays event from … Continue reading
I was on a couple of road trips in the North Island recently, talking to many different groups and folk about biochar. This has quickly led to two biochar-composting trials… 1 underway and the 2nd in the planning stages. Both … Continue reading
Frank is based in the more attractive and stimulating part of Eastern NZ. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-12/tas-country-hour-8-may-2015/6461028 He’s becoming the ‘go-to’ guy on TFOD among many other things. We need to clone him for NZ… things would be happening a lot faster. He’s … Continue reading
Erin from TR Miles has posted the following on the biochar discussion group. This translates easily to opportunities in NZ… “Kathleen Draper with Fingerlakes Biochar did a great job of outlining Biochar markets during her presentation at NE Biomass Conference … Continue reading
An informal event to share experience and knowledge on making and using biochar. Share experiences and ideas with other biochar makers Learn ways to make biochar for home garden, farm or greenhouse Compare different biochar machines Practical Demonstrations No experience … Continue reading
The Ithaka Institute has used Pinterest to provide links to Kon-tiki-activity from India, Germany, England, Bolivia, South Africa, Switzerland, Tasmania, Sri Lanka and Nepal… https://www.pinterest.com/ithakainstitute/kon-tiki-kiln/ … Continue reading