- Author: Milton E McGiffen
The recently formed California Biochar Association will meet during the US Biochar Conference in Corvalis, OR next week at 6:30 am on Tuesday, August 23. The meeting is in the boardroom at the CH2M Hill Alumni Center. It is mostly a meet and greet, so it if you will be in Corvalis please join us.
- Author: Milton E McGiffen
I hear this all the time from farmers and many others:
http://californiaagtoday.com/farmers-leave-california-due-to-regs/
- Author: Milton E McGiffen
The Turfgrass and Landscape Research Field Day is an annual event that draws several hundred participants. It may be the largest gathering of people interested in turf, and includes vendors, presentations, and visits to field experiments. We will be presenting results at our biochar turf study.
When:
Thursday, September 15, 2016
7:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Where:
UC Riverside Turfgrass Research Facility
Department of Agricultural Operations
1060 Martin Luther King Boulevard
Riverside, California 92521
You can find out more and sign up here:
- Author: Milton E McGiffen
Raymond Baltar of the Sonoma Ecology Center passed along a good article on biomass to energy conversion:
http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article89666272.html
- Author: Milton E McGiffen
A number of representatives of industry, academia, government, agriculture, etc. interested in biochar got together in Manteca last week. We decided to form the California Biochar Association. The group will address all things biochar -- use, production, demand, environmental impacts, effect on crops, etc.
The California Biochar Association is very interested in comments, suggestions, or volunteers on pretty much anything: the name, a logo, scope, constitution, activities, whatever you think is appropriate. I agreed to put out this blog post to allow interested parties to comment. Just reply to this post and we can discuss.