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
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
It is great to see regional reports on biochar activity around NZ. Click on the image blow for the link to the story. … Continue reading
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
The biochar workshop tour finished in Gisborne on Friday. The tour was an intense 3 weeks of travel and action leaving behind a long trail of followup actions and emails. And no time for the monthly newsletter. It will take … Continue reading
A click on the image opposite should lead to a legible version of this article, published in the Nelson leader on 17 May. We’ve been getting great support from CAA in Motueka for the Nelson workshop on 29 May. Katerina … Continue reading
Zespri have been kindly supporting our efforts to educate and inform the kiwifruit industry on opportunities related to biochar production and application. They have published a short article in their latest industry magazine (linked from their banner, above). Zespri have … Continue reading
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
Reviving an ancient soil technology: Biochar Organic Winegrowers NZ have published an article in their latest “organic matters” magazine focused on biochar and supporting the biochar workshop tour coming up next month. All of the workshops are in wine or … Continue reading
And while I’m on the workshop article theme (last two posts), Biogro have also come out in support with a banner in their latest (March) newsletter. I can’t find a newsletter archive on their website so the best I can … Continue reading