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
Category Archives: Biochar Production
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’m a bit slow to report on this but it was a great success. We had folk from Taupo to Kaitia but mostly local to Pukekohe and the Auckland area. Cam’s farm was a great venue and the weather was … 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
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
If you are interested in 200L drum TLUD’s then this report from Thailand may be of interest… http://sea-biochar.blogspot.com/2015/04/project-report-from-thailand.html … Continue reading
Click on on title below to link to a great report on potatoes, biochar and economics. It would be great to see some similar action here in NZ. Profile: Profitability Improvements from Enhanced Biochars: Results from a Potato Farm in … Continue reading
I’m about to post 4 video presentations that have caught my eye recently. The first is from Dr Hugh McLaughlin – very informative 10min on biochar production fundamentals and carbon farming. … Continue reading
Campfire Lessons: Breaking Down the Combustion Process to Understand Biochar Production By Mark R. Fuchs, M. Garcia-Perez, P. Small and G. Flora “Campfires were the first step in the evolution of slow pyrolysis reactors. Observing the play of the flames … Continue reading