Kathleen Draper was recently in Oz to talk about her work with biochar. She was a guest speaker at the Mullumbimby bio-charfest (some reports on the fest from their facebook page). She has worked extensively with biochar in vineyards… a link … Continue reading
This video has Hans-Peter Schmidt and Dr Paul Taylor demonstrating the Kon-Tiki at the Ithaka Institute in Switzerland. I visited Hans-Peter in Switzerland on 25 July. He was kind enough to take me on a tour of their composting facility, vineyard and … Continue reading
More applied research examples from Australia, “The North East CMA has been working with a range of partners to develop a mobile pyrolysis plant which can turn woody waste into Biochar, which can then be used for agricultural production. The … Continue reading
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/fieldays/10151620/Mud-claims-Fieldays-victims?cid=edm:stuff:dailyheadlines. There is a biochar solution to every problem – A few truckloads spread thinly. A marketing coup for next years event. … Continue reading
The following link has a 40min presentation from Mike Barton that is recommended viewing if you are interested in how nutrient capping may affect future agriculture activities in NZ. http://beeflambnz.com/news-events/News/2013/july/farming-with-nutrient-limits/ An important biochar related take from this presentation is how … Continue reading
Kelpie is on fire with this new website… http://greenyourhead.typepad.com/backyard_biochar/ This is a great followup to previous posts here on biochar production… https://soilcarbon.org.nz/tag/production/ More discussions here … Continue reading
A new biochar research literature database by Jacob Jeffers has been getting a lot of kudos in the biochar community. I’ve added a link to the Links page. … Continue reading
Opinion: Where is agriculture’s place in a low-carbon economy? One important focus area for biochar in NZ is water quality butting up against intensive dairy. Maybe this could be addressed in the future with more research on riparian margin biochar … Continue reading
Recommended viewing. A few missed opportunities in the first half for incorporating biochar applications but about 30min in, Dr Todd starts discussing soil formation and biochar. … Continue reading
RNZ’s Our Changing World has reported on Carbonscape activities at Glenbrook steel mill looking to the potential for the production of ‘bio-coke’. Biochar is briefly mention in association with Carbonscape’s historical development activities. http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ourchangingworld/audio/2588575/clean-technology … Continue reading