helping your biochar project reach its goals

Technology, Projects and Training

helping your biochar project reach its goals

Technology, Projects and Training

Recent videos featuring The New Ring of Fire Biochar Kiln

New Ring of Fire Biochar Kiln in Action!

Check out our Takilma Biochar Project, where we used the New, Improved Ring of Fire Kiln to help our neighbors turn dangerous fuel piles into biochar for their gardens. We employed our local teenagers during April 2020 who were home from school due to Covid 19. Being outdoors in the fresh air, keeping social distance, we provided a safe experience for bored, cooped up people to do something good for our neighbors and our land.

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.

Ring of Fire Biochar Kiln now shipping!

PRE-PAY AND RESERVE YOUR KILN IN THE SHOPPING CART BELOW

The Ring of Fire kiln is a metal container for burning 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

GET READY FOR THE 2021 BURN SEASON - ORDER YOUR KILN NOW!

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