Initiative News – Page 4 – Sonoma Biochar Initiative

September 13, 2019

Permaculture, Biochar and Soil

Permaculture, Biochar and SoilSonoma Garden Park19996 7th St E, Sonoma, CA 95476Wednesday Sept. 18th4 P.M.. to 6 P.M. Join us for an amazing educational event to learn more about permaculture techniques and how biochar and compost blends fit into commercial and/or backyard garden soil management and carbon sequestration strategies. Two amazing teachers, Matt Powers (The Permaculture Student) […]

June 17, 2019

Biochar Meeting at Shone Farm 6/19/19

SBI, in collaboration with Sonoma Water and other partners, is holding a meeting to discuss its recent activities, form new collaborative relationships, and to hear about other synergistic efforts to build healthier forests and manage fire adaptive landscapes, build healthier soils, sequester carbon, and build local resiliency. Download the flyer here. Please register here. The event is free.

June 4, 2019

New Ice on Fire Documentary

An important new climate change documentary, co-produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and his father George DiCaprio and financed by HBO Films, will be streamed on HBO beginning on June 11th. The filmmakers traveled the world to document how fast things are changing and to interview a number of experts on the unfolding climate crisis. The focus […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

June 9, 2017

Global Biochar Market Size Expected to Reach $585.0 Million by 2020.

According to a report by Zion Market Research, the global market was valued at approximately USD 260.0 million in 2014 and is expected to reach approximately USD 585.0 million by 2020, growing at a CAGR of around 14.5% between 2015 and 2020. To learn more, go here.

January 10, 2017

Conservation Burn Training/Biochar Workshop Postponed to March 31st

Due to the amazing series of wet storms we have been experiencing we are postponing the upcoming Conservation Burn workshop scheduled to Friday March 31st, same time and place. Please mark it in your calendar. Since burn season doesn’t end until May 1 you will still have plenty of time to burn your own piles […]

December 8, 2016

Conservation Burn Workshop Rescheduled to Jan. 13th

Due to unfavorable burn conditions the Biochar/Conservation Burn workshop scheduled for Dec. 9th has been postponed to January 13th. GO HERE for more information.

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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