Have you ever wanted to make biochar, but didn’t have a kiln?
The Black Ripple Biochar Kiln Loan Program will kick off November 1 at Benbow KOA, with a training and demonstration for anyone interested.
The Kiln Loan Program provides free training and tools for southern Humboldt land owners and contractors to make biochar from woody material. Trainings include a hands-on workshop using a Ring of Fire™ kiln—the best available biochar kiln for this purpose. Attendees are then eligible for borrowing kilns to make biochar for themselves or as contractors.
Branches and other brush are ideal materials for this purpose. The result is biochar, a valuable form of charcoal for amending soil that retains water and nutrients, enhances microbial habitat, and diverts carbon from re-entering the atmosphere. Making biochar substitutes for chipping and incineration.
The Black Ripple Kiln Loan Program was created to overcome several obstacles at once. By including public training, this program allows local residents and contractors to discover biochar, learn what it is, learn how to use it, learn how to make it, and get access to a kiln for making it. Biochar can be made faster and more efficiently with a kiln, but the training also describes how to make it without one.
Additional trainings are planned, and two have already been scheduled. A second training is scheduled for November 15, at Southern Humboldt Community Park. Sign up for either training here.
