It took us over a year to find the right people and machine, but with the help of Blackwood solutions we turned all 200+ piles of scotch broom, blackberry and immature douglas fir into 100+ 2 yard totes of biochar, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and sequestering carbon in the form of biochar that will be with us for centuries. I had read about biochar and even made some on a very small scale, this is the direction we wanted to go. Clare and I sought a different approach that would create a product from the harvested biomass, chipping and composting was a potential solution but would have been energy, time and space intensive. Conventional practice is to push these piles into larger piles and then light on fire. Last spring we began preparing ten or so acres for vineyard which produced about 200 piles of biomass. Our 2019 has been amazingly busy with so many things to tell – goats and a donkey! Fencing! Vineyard progress! A bull! And maybe the most amazing – biochar! Biochar? What the hell is biochar? Basically charcoal, but when produced in a specific way it has amazing properties that can have all sorts of applications, including agricultural.
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