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November 6, 2025
Green Schoolyards Implementation Project
In 2023 the Sonoma Ecology Center was awarded a CAL FIRE-funded grant to develop plans for landscape greening upgrades at all 8 elementary schools in the Pittsburg Unified School District as well as for the 4 elementary schools in the Bellevue USD in Santa Rosa. These plans included shade tree planting, outdoor classrooms, bioswales, and […]
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October 23, 2024
Emissions Testing Update on Flame Cap Kilns and Conservation Burns
The Sonoma Ecology Center (SEC) has been training foresters and agricultural producers how to process their surplus biomass into biochar for 10 years using the conservation burn and flame-cap kiln methods. When conducted correctly these techniques produce significantly less smoke pollution as well as convert carbon into a highly beneficial soil amendment. In 2023, in partnership with […]
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March 9, 2019
Announcing Upcoming Conservation Burn Workshops
In collaboration with The Vineyard Team and the air quality management districts in San Luis Obispo, Monterey, and Santa Barbara counties, we are happy to announce that we will be giving conservation burn workshops in each county on April 3rd, 4th, and 5th. Each workshop will be 4 hours in length and include a lecture […]
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April 16, 2018
Upcoming Biochar Workshop
SBI is offering a 1.5 hour Biochar Workshop this Saturday, April 21st, from 10:30 A.M. to 12 P.M, as part of the Earth Day activities at the Sonoma Garden Park. Learn about what biochar is, how you can make it yourself or where you can purchase it locally, how to use and apply it, and […]
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July 10, 2017
North Coast Biochar is Now Available!
The Redwood Forest Foundation, Inc. (RFFI), a non-profit organization that owns and manages the FSC Certified Usal Forest on the Lost Coast of northern California, is now producing high-carbon, low-ash biochar from surplus tan oak culled during forest restoration activities. Production started on June 1, and this high-quality soil amendment is being marketed under the […]
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November 28, 2016
Biochar/Conservation Burn Workshop Coming Up Dec. 9th
The Sonoma Biochar Initiative and the Sonoma Ecology Center are pleased to announce a Conservation Burn and Biochar Workshop at Circle Bar Ranch from 9 A.M. to 1 P.M. on Friday Dec. 9th. For more information, GO HERE.
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July 5, 2016
Biochar-Enhanced Chicken Manure Pellets Now Available
In collaboration with Weber Family Farms in Petaluma, The Sonoma Biochar Initiative and Sonoma Ecology Center are now offering buckets of biochar-enhanced chicken manure pellets as thank-you gifts for donations during a special fundraising campaign. The chicken manure is an OMRI-listed organic manure that is high in nitrogen and blended with biochar made from locally-sourced woody biomass. […]
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April 5, 2016
USBI 2016 Biochar Conference: Save the Date Aug. 22nd – 25th
The Synergy of Science and Industry: Biochar’s Connection to Ecology, Soil, Food and Energy Registration is now open for what is sure to be a fantastic gathering of scientists, entrepreneurs, farmers, enlightened government officials, energy, soil, and fire geeks, agricultural change agents, NGO’s devoted to sustainable practices and carbon sequestration, backyard biochar tinkerer’s, and folks […]
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July 2, 2015
Sonoma County Biochar Project Workshop and Demonstration
The Sonoma County Biochar Project Presents: Biochar Soil Management and Pasture Benefits A Workshop and Demonstration Date: July 25th, 2015 / Time: 10am to 2pm At Swallow Valley Farm, 1100 Freestone Valley Ford Rd. Valley Ford, CA 94972 For more information, click here.
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March 5, 2015
SBI Selected to Submit a Full CalFire Project Application
The Sonoma Biochar Initiative (SBI)recently received a formal invitation from CalFire to submit a full grant application to expand our Conservation Burn Training Program statewide. CalFire received 381 Concept Proposals, totaling over $135 million, from various entities and landowners throughout the state under California’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Funds Grant Programs, and only a limited number […]
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