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helping your biochar project reach its goals

Technology, Projects and Training

helping your biochar project reach its goals

Technology, Projects and Training

short Videos of Ring of Fire in Action

Training day for US Rake Force

Wilson Biochar delivered two Ring of Fire Biochar Kilns to US Rakeforce and trained their group of veterans and supporters on how to use the Ring of Fire Kiln to sequester carbon.

Visit US Rakeforce here: https://rakeforce.us

How clean is the Ring of Fire Biochar Kiln?

This short video shoes the entire burn from lighting to quenching. We made 1.5 cubic yards of biochar in about 3 hours. Speeding up the video shows how little smoke we generated. Slow motion reveals how smoke is pulled back into the kiln where it burns up.

Ring of Fire Biochar Kiln now shipping!

Current Price*: $1,295.00

To order a kiln, please fill out the Ring of Fire pre-order form, below, and we will contact you with more information about payment and shipping options.

*Price will be updated periodically due to continually rising steel prices.

Ring of Fire Pre-Order Form

The Ring of Fire kiln is a metal container for heating waste wood and brush for the purpose of making biochar. The kiln consists of an inner ring composed of three sheets of mild steel that are bolted together. An outer ring of lighter gauge steel bolts onto the brackets that hold the inner ring together. The purpose of the outer ring is to serve as a heat shield that holds in heat for better efficiency. Technical Specifications:

Kiln diameter (with heat shield): 77 inches
Kiln height (with heat shield): 44 inches
Kiln volume: 3.18 cubic yards
Kiln weight: 238 pounds

Ring of Fire Pre-Order Form

How to use the Ring of Fire Biochar Kiln to sequester carbon

Northcoast Resource Partnership - Making Biochar in the Redwoods with the CCC

Redwood Forest Foundation, Inc. and Usal Redwood Management Company present: Down to Earth: Biomass to Biochar and Storing Carbon in the Forest Soils. For full video see: https://www.rffi.org/down-to-earth-2/

A Carbon Conservation Corps to Restore Forests with Biochar

The great forests of the Western US are mighty storehouses of carbon and life. But poor management, exclusion of natural fire and climate change are having a terrible impact. We need boots on the ground, converting woody debris to biochar to restore healthy forest soils and sequester carbon. This video describes the methods and technology for making biochar in the woods, and proposes a program for paying our youth to do this important work to save our forests and our climate.

Concept Paper for a new ccc

Civilian Climate Corps

The federal government is starting a new CCC to “put a new generation of Americans to work conserving and restoring public lands and waters, increasing reforestation, increasing carbon sequestration in the agricultural sector, protecting biodiversity, improving access to recreation, and addressing the changing climate.” Read all about it here.

Will the new CCC include Biochar?

Recently, Wilson Biochar Associates trained a crew of California Conservation Corps workers to make biochar in the woods, thanks to the Redwood Forest Foundation. You can read about Usal Redwood Forest biochar project here.

Biochar CCC Concept Paper

There are many different CCC type programs at the state and national level that could include biochar production as an ecological restoration and carbon sequestration activity. Scroll down to download our CCC concept paper and share it with your community to build support for a Biochar CCC.

upcoming events

VIDEO NOW ONLINE: Wednesday, March 10 Biomass to Biochar and Storing Carbon in Soil

Presented by Redwood Forest Foundation, Inc. & Usal Redwood Forest Company. RFFI and URFC staff and experts will demonstrate an innovative approach to building fire resilient forests and addressing climate change. Watch slash from newly created fuel breaks be converted into biochar for use in forest soil restoration. Witness three portable biochar conversion kilns in use in different locations in the Usal Redwood Forest.
WATCH RECORDED PRESENTATIONS HERE

Biochar Opportunities in the Southwest: Extension Workshop

VIDEO NOW ONLINE: Wednesday, March 10 Biomass to Biochar and Storing Carbon in Soil

April 7, 4 pm - April 9, 12:30 pm MDT University of Arizona Gila County Cooperative Extension - Biochar Opportunities in the Southwest - An interactive virtual workshop about ecosystem services and entrepreneurial opportunities using forest biochar in the Four Corner States. Register here.

About Us

About Kelpie Wilson

Kelpie Wilson is an engineer and analyst with 35 years of experience in renewable energy, sustainable forestry and resource conservation.

Since 2008, she has focused on biochar. She has consulted with private industry and government agencies through her company Wilson Biochar. Her contracts have included work for the International Biochar Initiative, Washington Department of Ecology, North Dakota Forest Service, Great Plains Biochar Initiative, Oregon Biochar Solutions, Long Tom Restoration Council, California Almond Board, and many others. She is also a founding board member of the US Biochar Initiative.

Kelpie works directly with forest managers, the wood products industry, and farmers to develop systems for making biochar from waste biomass. She researches and teaches techniques for using biochar in compost and manure management, and presents many biochar workshops every year. She was profiled by Capital Press as a Western Innovator in September 2016.

Our Approach

Wilson Biochar Associates can guide you and your business to opportunities in biochar. If you are a farmer looking for advice on applications, a resource manager looking for inexpensive techniques for converting biomass to biochar, or a community member who wants to know more about biochar:

Check out our e-books, white papers and webinars
Come to a biochar training session
Contact us to schedule consulting hours or initiate a larger project.

Why Us?

Biochar is an exciting new field with great potential but significant uncertainties. That's where expertise from Wilson Biochar Associates can make all the difference for the success of your enterprise. Wilson Biochar Associates specializes in biochar technology, market development, education and outreach.

helping your biochar project reach its goals

helping your biochar project reach its goals

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biochar in the woods