Resources

Presentation PDF and Video: Connect with the Biochar On Site Char Talk introduction PDF (110 MB) and the video conversation recorded on April 18, 2025, with host Jim Doten from the Minnesota Biochar Initiative.

Video: 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 into a fresh way to live well. These are the most viewed biochar videos on YouTube.

Research Paper: 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, site based processes.

Video: Stanislaus County Office of Education Episode 19 – Forest Conservation at Foothill Horizons – Explore the vital role of forest fuel reduction and its impact on forest conservation. Valuable insights on sustainable biochar practices to protect our forests from wildfires while promoting biodiversity. Supported by American Forest Foundation.

Video: Educational demonstration by Lori Lilly and Howard EcoWorks Biochar Explained: What It Is, How It’s Made, and Why It Matters This is a fantastic primer on biochar on site practices, and an excellent resource on how to host a demonstration.

Video: Gardener Scott – Biochar Basics Q & A – Biochar can be an amazing soil amendment. Gardener Scott welcomes Kelpie Wilson to discuss the wonders of biochar

Video: 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.

Video: Salt Lake Tribune – Is turning forest waste into black biochar a green solution? Firemen sift through Biochar from the “Ring of Fire” Kiln at the Tooele Landfill CharPaLooza Event, held April 19, 2023.

Video: ASMR w appleturnover – kiln fire biochar to transform branches into enriched carbon soil amendments for a healthy biosphere Appleturnover Substack Link

Video: 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

Podcast: 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.

Video: 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.

Video: Making Biochar With Kon-Tiki Kiln – Ward demonstrates how he makes biochar, from waste forest wood, using a Kon-Tiki kiln.

Video: The Lands Council – Polygon Kiln – The Lands Council biochar burn on Kalipsel Reservation, November 17, 2021.

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