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Making soil: turning food scraps into food production

Posted on 01/06/2023 by Trevor
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Nice article here covering Bettsy & Dave Kettle’s work on the north shore. Link from image above and the article is available from the Organic NZ website. Some interesting discussion included on how they are using biochar in this system. … Continue reading →

Posted in Applications, gardening, horticulture, Soil remediation | Tagged Auckland, compost, media, organics | Leave a reply

Preliminary results from kiwifruit biochar trials

Posted on 18/05/2023 by Trevor
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Dr Pranoy Pal has an association with biochar reaching back to his post-doctoral work at Lincoln University in 2012. Pranoy is now the Kiwifruit Technical Manager at Trevelyan’s Pack and Cool – New Zealand’s largest family-owned kiwifruit and avocado packhouse. … Continue reading →

Posted in Applications, horticulture, Projects, Science & research | Tagged BoP, kiwifruit, trials | Leave a reply

HotLimeLabs biochar update

Posted on 10/08/2022 by Trevor
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HLL are probably the closest thing we have in NZ to a biochar industry development story. Biochar is not their focus but it looks like it is growing importance in their business plans. From their latest newsletter: … Continue reading →

Posted in Biochar Production, horticulture | Tagged HLL, production | Leave a reply

Hawke’s Bay vineyard trialing biochar

Posted on 24/04/2022 by Trevor
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“In a first for the region, Craggy Range winery is trialling two water saving techniques in tandem: biochar and sub surface irrigation (SSI).” https://www.hbfuturefarming.org/news/article/31/craggy-range-trial-holds-water-nutrients- … Continue reading →

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OnionsNZ supporting biochar research

Posted on 29/08/2021 by Trevor
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Posted in Applications, horticulture, Science & research | Tagged horticulture, research, soil | Leave a reply

2018 Biochar workshop tour

Posted on 29/05/2020 by Trevor
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It is nearly two years since Dennis Enright and I completed a biochar workshop tour around NZ. We conducted five workshops (Cromwell, Nelson, Waihi, Waiuku and Gisborne) over a period of three weeks. Our plans to report on each workshop … Continue reading →

Posted in Biochar Production, horticulture, Projects, Uncategorized | Tagged workshops | Leave a reply

Biochar case studies from Australia

Posted on 01/04/2020 by Trevor
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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 →

Posted in farming, horticulture, Planting trials, Soil remediation | Leave a reply

TV1 news report on biochar activity in Otago

Posted on 08/10/2018 by Trevor
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Dennis Enright reported on some of the background to this project in the first biochar workshop report in August (here). Its great to see some main-stream media coverage in NZ. Click on the image for a link to short TV1 … Continue reading →

Posted in Biochar Production, horticulture, Uncategorized | Tagged horticulture, media, Otago, production, video, workshops | Leave a reply

Biochar workshop WS-1 – Cromwell

Posted on 30/08/2018 by Trevor
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Dennis Enright produced a report on the May-June biochar workshops soon after the tour was completed. This report was circulated to all participants of the workshops. We are now sharing this post-workshop report as a series of ABE posts. Background … Continue reading →

Posted in Applications, Biochar Production, horticulture, Uncategorized | Tagged teaching, TFOD, trial, workshops | Leave a reply

HortNZ… followup article

Posted on 19/04/2018 by Trevor
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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 →

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