This looks like a great event and just a hop across the water via Gold Coast (56km south). The live streaming option is innovative but it would be great to get NZ delegates in attendance. Anyone interested in a block … Continue reading
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Don Graves gave a presentation focused on biochar at the recent Land Use Opportunities Symposium in Rotorua. You can find a PDF version of the presentation here. Plenty of other interesting presentations and at least 2 others mention biochar. Coverage … Continue reading
New Zealand’s post-2020 climate change target … has been announced and can be viewed from the MFE website via the linked headline above. You may think this cause for celebration but for me it is rather depressing. Its not the … Continue reading
Strategic positioning down on the dairy farm https://keithwoodford.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/strategic-positioning-down-on-the-dairy-farm/ Prof. Keith Woodford has posed pertinent questions here about NZ dairying and Don Graves has provided provided some insight into the biochar possibilities that remain unexplored in NZ. We are hoping to change … Continue reading
Endemic Plants as Browse Crops in Agricultural Landscapes of New Zealand This title does not hint at a biochar connection and neither does the synopsis for this recent research publication from the Department of Ecology at Lincoln University. But closer … 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
Professors’ TR (Reg) Preston and Ron Leng are leading lights on biochar animal feeding and many other areas of biochar research. IBI biblio searches on ‘Preston’ (22 results) and ‘Leng’ (6 results) are revealing. They were principle authors on well … 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