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Videos
Connect with Biochar On Site on Char Talk introduction PDF (110 MB) and the Char Talk conversation recorded on April 18, 2025 with host Jim Doten of Minnesota Biochar Initiative.
Acorn Land Labs – Biochar is Amazing & Biochar Kiln for Soil Health – This is a Kiln – Self-Sustaining Homestead A.L.L. fuses permaculture, off-grid systems, local lifestyles, and simple living. Most viewed biochar videos on YouTube.
Utah State University – Black is the New Green: Exploring Biochar’s Potential to Moderate Wildfire and Store Carbon – Our hundreds of kiln burns show biochar provides one more tool in our toolbox to help fix wildfire risks and build soil carbon.
Salt Lake Tribune – Is turning forest waste into black biochar a green solution? CharPaLooza – Biochar on display at the Tooele Landfill in Utah. Hosted April 19, 2023 w USBI & USFS.
Stanislaus County Office of Education Episode 19 – Forest Conservation at Foothill Horizons – Explore the role of forest fuel reduction and its impact on forest conservation. Insights on sustainable biochar practices to protect forests from wildfires. Supported by American Forest Foundation.
Educational demonstration by Lori Lilly and Howard EcoWorks Biochar Explained: What It Is, How It’s Made, and Why It Matters Excellent resource on how to host a biochar demonstration and fantastic primer on BOS practices.
Gardener Scott – Biochar Basics Q & A – Biochar can be an amazing soil amendment. Gardener Scott welcomes Kelpie Wilson to discuss the wonders of biochar
University of Arizona Cooperative Extension Using Flame Cap Kilns to Make Biochar Darren McAvoy, Forest and Wildland Resources Specialist with Utah State University Extension outlines how biochar kilns represent an accessible and durable approach to hazardous fuels mitigation and carbon sequestration
USBI Utah State University Utah Biomass Resources Group, Bear River Massacre, Big Box Biochar, Ring of Fire, Open Burn Utah Biomass Resource Group & US Biochar Initiative demonstrate a biochar burn as part of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation led Wuda Ogwa (Bear River Massacre Site) restoration project in Preston, Idaho.
Making Biochar With Kon-Tiki Kiln – Ward demonstrates how he makes biochar, from waste forest wood, using a Kon-Tiki kiln.
The Lands Council – Polygon Kiln – The Lands Council biochar burn on Kalipsel Reservation, November 17, 2021.
ASMR w appleturnover – kiln fire biochar to transform branches into enriched carbon soil amendments for a healthy biosphere – Appleturnover Substack Link
Podcasts
No-Till Growers Podcast – Black is the New Green, Demystifying Biochar with Kelpie Wilson of Wilson Biochar Associates Talking about biochar which is a big, big topic these days in the No-Till arenas. Guest Kelpie Wilson wrote and just released The Biochar Handbook.
9Zero Pod on Spotify w Korina Stark – Biochar for Good
Research Papers & Guides
USFS Mobile Biochar Production by Flame Carbonization: Reducing Wildfire Risk and Improving Forest Resilience Contributors; Deborah Page-Dumroese, Kelpie Wilson, Wihan Bekker, James Archuleta, and Darren McAvoy. – Paper covers many benefits of low emission, BOS processes.
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