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Uses and Purposes

November 6, 2021 stam 0 Comments
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But First, a Movie!

March 14, 2014March 22, 2021 stam 1 Comment

Before we start on our adventure, let’s watch one, a movie made by the BBC about El Dorado,  the Lost

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Terra Preta Today

March 14, 2014April 18, 2020 stam 0 Comments

  Significant current research on Terra Preta is conducted at Cornell University by a team headed by Dr. Johannes Lehmann.

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It Wasn’t All Preta…

March 14, 2014April 18, 2020 stam 0 Comments

In 2009, at a workshop on biochar at the Pony Farm in Temple, NH,  Hugh McLaughlin gave some history and

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Charcoal in American History

March 14, 2014April 17, 2020 stam 0 Comments

The Tri-State area where New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut border each other was the home of military ironworks for the

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Agriculture 

Farm Scale

March 14, 2014April 21, 2020 stam 0 Comments

Making Biochar for Farmers If we are going to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in order

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Agriculture 

A Biochar Corn Harvest

February 1, 2019March 22, 2021 stam 0 Comments

A fallow field, one half remained fallow and the other half tilled in with biochar. And then we left the

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Agriculture 

Harvesting Goldenrod

March 14, 2014April 22, 2020 stam 0 Comments

Goldenrod is harvested with the same equipment as hay — a cutter, a rake, and then a baler.  For those

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Agriculture 

The Pellet Mill

April 21, 2020April 22, 2020 stam 0 Comments

The bales of goldenrod stalks were taken a few miles away to Dirk-Jan’s pellet mill. The bales are put into

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Safe Cooking and Heating Stoves 

The New Coal? Grass Pellets

March 14, 2014April 20, 2020 stam 0 Comments

Heat with grass not gas! Let’s visit a plant nursery in Pawling, New York, that has been using grass —

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Biochar 

The Biochar Workshop at Pony Farm

March 14, 2014May 15, 2020 stam 0 Comments

This is an introduction to the Biochar Roundtable at the Lodge at Pony Farm in Temple, New Hampshire, on May

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Safe Cooking and Heating Stoves 

Burning Smoke: Gasification

March 14, 2014April 17, 2020 stam 1 Comment

  Let’s play with fire — and learn from it! Gasification is central to understanding the efforts to produce smokeless

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Safe Cooking and Heating Stoves 

Hugh McLaughlin’s Stoves

March 14, 2014April 18, 2020 stam 0 Comments

The next demonstration produced charcoal with a retort made from a recycled Cornelius keg.  I’ve taken the liberty of assuming

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Safe Cooking and Heating Stoves 

The Stovers

March 14, 2014April 17, 2020 stam 0 Comments

“More than half of the world’s population—three billion people—cook their food and heat their homes by burning coal and biomass,

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Low-Hanging Fruit 

Low-Hanging Fruit

March 14, 2014May 16, 2020 stam 0 Comments

Low-Hanging Fruit: easy steps, things we can do that will produce some results easily and quickly. For example, spreading an

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