Newsletters have historically been circulated as emails to the ABE list. With the migration of the list to MailChimp, we now can provide the following links to newsletters.
March 2025 (Fieldays planning; report from the Underground Festival; CCC#3&4; City2Farm update)
February 2025 (new BNNZ committee member; CharChitChat#2; lessons from Taiwan)
Dec24-Jan25 (BNNZ@Rotopiko NWT event; City-to-Farm project report; CharChitChat (missed from the newsletter)
November 2024 (Denmark shows the way for NZ; Parengarenga plans; Tee’s Pots; Kiwifruit study)
October 2024 (BNNZ chair ALGA keynote; CharPae – Big Biochar Day Out; Two Paddocks pit burn demonstration)
September 2024 (dairy farming with biochar – redux)
August 2024 (BNNZ AGM; CharPae workshop; ERP PR+submissions; Zespri meeting report; history corner)
July 2024 (ERP press release / policy submission; R2R report; Blue on building materials; AGM notice)
June 2024 (Zespri R&D plan, Southern Carbon, WarmHeart, conferences)
May 2024 (5 upcoming conference targets, ANZBIG action in Oz, notes from BNNZ committee meeting)
April 2024 (GoodCarbonFarm report from Auckland, Phil’s next workshop, books review)
March 2024 (new guide for biochar in agriculture, new article from Dr Peter Winsley)
February 2024 (Nuffield scholar does biochar, Chaos Springs workshop report, forest slash proposal)
January 2024 (action in Auckland schools, Chaos Springs workshop notice, action in Paekakariki)
November 2023 (Tributes to Don Graves; GoodCarbonFarm scorecard; Wilding pine conference report)
October 2023 (water/irrigation – ed.; forestry engineering dissertation on biochar; USA lake remediation)
September 2023 (MFE carbon removal strategy document; AGM & new committee)
August 2023 (flame cap kiln report review)
July 2023 (report on activity around Wellington)
June 2023 (Pukai biochar workshop report; vineyard trials; Southland workshops, Rotopiko lake trial?)
May 2023 (news from the deputy chair – Manawatu)
April 2023 (news from the past chair – Otago)
March 2023 (cylclone Gabrielle & ‘Carbon Rescue’; pit burns & ACB’s)
February 2023 (report from the chair; report from the NZAGRC conference)
January (+Dec) 2023 (guest editorial – deputy chair; natural swimming pool + biochar)
November 2022 (report on the BNNZ booth at the National Fieldays; policy progress and opportunities)
October 2022 (Fieldays planning; a link to my calculations using biochar feed supplement to offset dairy methane emissions)
September 2022 (GoodCarbonFarm; BNNZ AGM report; Forestry ITP submissions)
August 2022 (BNNZ AGM Chair’s report; Dennis reports on his hops trial)
July 2022 (Fielding pyrolysis plant hearings; field reports from the committee (James & Phil)
June 2022 (Kangaroo Island biochar project; Horwhenua… ecology & the arts; turf; paulownia; BNNZ-ANZBIG agreement)
May 2022 (BANZ/Scion webinar on NZ biomass resources; Landcare Trust biochar workshop, Raglan)
April 2022 (relationship building: TreeCroppers, NZFFA, BANZ, ANZBIG; NZ & IPCC; Hawke’s Bay vineyard trials)
May 2020 (link to a report on the 2018 biochar workshop tour)
December 2018 (planning for BNNZ IGM, Pukekohe)
November 2018 (more BNNZ planning; NZBRC paper)
October 2018 (ANZBC18 Conference proceedings; TV1 biochar coverage)
September 2018 (BNNZ planning continues; FB links this old seem to have died?)
August 2018 (report on workshop#1 of the tour… going nuts in Cromwell; the planning for BNNZ begins)
July 2018 ( updated link: Developing a national biochar organisation in NZ; New NZ paper on soil carbon mentions biochar; NZ case study on ‘4 per 1000’ report)
June 2018 (biochar at the Fieldays; Nelson workshop report; Otago biochar production)
May 2018 (the workshop tour begins)
April 2018 (more support articles published supporting the pending workshop tour)
March 2018 (workshop marketing; HortNZ, Nelson Grape&Wine & BiogroNZ workshop support; NZ biochar industry & ANZBI)
February 2018 (national biochar workshop tour plans; NZBRC news)
January 2018 (2018 biochar workshop tour announcement; NZ biochar plans/ambitions; ANZBC conference proceedings; forest+biochar)
December 2017 (2017 wine; kauri die-back; NZ biochar business models)
November 2017 (a change of govt; Black Soldier Fly + biochar)
October 2017 (Cam’s avocado plan; Royal Society on biochar)
September 2017 (extreme pit production!; national workshop tour announcement)