A great new 11min video has been released to the BNNZ YouTube channel. Stephen Newman has been featured in a CharChitChat interview and was a guest speaker in the last BNNZ members lounge (23July) Kaipara Regenerative Farming Group ( / 584997046632415 ) and … Continue reading
Episode 12 – Greg Hart, Mangarara FarmWell-known regenerative farmer Greg Hart joins Dylan to talk about his 20-year journey away from fossil-fuel-dependent farming and toward a tree-filled, biochar-boosted system. Greg shares how silvopasture, on-farm slaughter, and charring of bones are … Continue reading
I posted on this in June 2025 when it was reported in the old AgResearch website. Hopefully we can find out more about the back story to this project and the ongoing monitoring plans. “A long-term evaluation of biochar incorporation … Continue reading
Do We Now Know How to Recreate Terra Preta? Betsy Kettle has been featured here a number of times. You can get to know her & her work from CCC S1E5. Betsy has provided the following report covering seven years … Continue reading
Dylan kicks off season 2 of CCC with a focus on the dairy farm. This fits nicely with the new BNNZ feature on dairy: https://biochar.net.nz/about-biochar/economic-applications/dairy-cows-and-biochar … Continue reading
Biochar gets a mention here. Stephen is also connected with City-to-Farm which has been covered here previously (https://soilcarbon.org.nz/city-to-farm/#comment-3269), including a CharChitChat with Betsy Kettle (https://soilcarbon.org.nz/?s=betsy&x=15&y=2) … Continue reading
There is plenty of biochar history here, coming from way up north. This looks like exciting progress, focusing on major new plans. … Continue reading
The bio for the above story does not specifically mention biochar but a G-Scholar search on Prof. Condron pulls a lot of historic research conducted at Lincoln, mostly around the interaction of biochar with N. I’ve filtered the results with … Continue reading
Samuel Robb and Stephen Joseph have pulled together some very interesting economic case studies that provide insight and guidance for biochar applications in NZ. Eight case studies are featured: beef (2); avocado; potato; cucumber; zucchini; golf courses; saline soil. From … Continue reading