What we do

Biomass to Biochar

We offer placed based solutions and knowledge for biomass conversion to carbon . Our

traditional method involves transforming unmarketable woody slash and debris into biochar. The technology we use is portable and affordable, and our group tours to expand awareness on how to retrofit existing practices to incorporate biochar making for our daily lives.

Education Services

We have discovered that not many people are aware of biochar's ability to enhance climate resilience. Its our goal to awaken the masses. This simplistic effort of reducing spent woody residues to a valuable treasure, benefits communities, the environment and our watersheds!

Join Us in Safeguarding Our Ecosystems

Our mission is to build a skilled workforce dedicated to reducing hard-to-access slash efficiently and safely. By doing so, we protect our ecosystems from both human-made and natural threats.

Explore, Learn, and Engage

Dive into our education center to discover more about biochar. Whether you're looking to book a seminar, learn about its benefits, or sign up for our upcoming Biochar Technician Program, we have resources to help you get started. Join us on this journey to make a tangible difference for our planet.

We would like to hear from you!

OUR ACHIEVEMENTS

What we’ve done so far

Education, Inspiration, and demonstrations training to understand, making, and applying biochar, for moisture and nutrient retention which sequesters stable carbon, improving local soils.

1000 +

Tons of Carbon Sequestered

18 +

Communities Reached

34

Seminars

1000 +

People Reached

Climate Weirdness Mitigation Stewards

By reducing slash and excess biomass into carbon, we are increasing resilience for nature to do what it does best! Our commitment towards minimal disturbance checks all the boxes for a bonafide eco-stewardship experience.  Get involved, there is much to do! 

 

Our partners and collaborators

Wilson Biochar

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.

Ring of Fire Biochar Kiln

The Ring of Fire Kiln® is a metal container for converting waste wood and brush into biochar, a valuable soil amendment.

The kiln consists of an inner ring composed of six 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. Total volume of the kiln is 5.6 cubic yards.

Ikhala CHARR app

Ikhala provides a comprehensive Digital-MMRV solution for climate change mitigation. Our platform features predefined 'programs' that provide projects with an end-to-end solution to monitor and verify their positive impact. Our Biochar program, streamlines the entire biochar production process and automates carbon removal calculations resulting from this process. This aids farmers, landowners, and contractors in showcasing their contributions towards climate action through biochar production from “vegetation and fuel load management activities”. What sets us apart is our platform's customizability, enabling projects to craft a tailored MRV policy, whether adhering to existing standards or defining their own. In addition, Ikhala simplifies project lifecycle management by offering a centralized data hub for all project information. It facilitates automated reporting and focuses on the collection of the optimal amount of data to verify the impact of a project.

Napachar

Bringing wildfire defense efforts with sustainable vinivuture practices to create a greener, more resilient Napa Valley

Currently in Napa and Sonoma offering place-based biochar production as a service to vineyard, orchard, and forest managers. Bringing portable biochar kilns to your burn piles, performing a smoke-free converstion of the biomass into biochar on-site, leaving behind the biochar produced, eliminating the need for transportation and allowing immediate integration into the soil for carbon sequestration.

US BIOCHAR INITIATIVE

BUILDING THE FUTURE FROM THE GROUND UP!


A not-for-profit organization promoting the sustainable production and use of biochar through research, policy, technology and doing it!

KOrganics LLC
Delivering high quality enhanced efficiency fertilizers with superior vegetative growth. Building living soil and healthy livestock. KO packs a potent punch. KOrganics utilized a simple fermentation process to quickly enrich carbon for stable nitrates with a slow release mechanism loaded with plant promoting biology. 

BIOCHARMA
Our mission is to educate people and farmers about how to make biochar. Understanding the benefits of how it increases the soils ability to retain water, allowing forests to increase growth while reducing fire hazards.

Camp Fire Restoration Project
Beginning with the Camp Fire in 2018 and with the additional devastation of 2020’s North Complex/ Bear Fire and 2021’s massive Dixie Fire, our area continues to be at the forefront of climate change, and in dire need of ecosystem healing.  Most of us agree that all these dots connect.  All the components of life on Earth are interwoven, and so too are the reasons we find ourselves in this unprecedented ecological era.  We are devoted to learning more about what is possible as humans interacting with this beautiful planet, and understanding as best we can how to live in cooperation with natural systems.  We hope to serve as a conduit for knowledge and healing, and an avenue for active community resilience.

Butte County Fire Safe Council 
Our mission is to provide safety in Butte County through wildfire hazard education, mitigation, and wildfire recovery.

Tree Of life BioTechnology
After months of research and due diligence as to the best company overall in the large scale production and industrial ready scalability of both high quality BioChar as well as the manufacturing of the hardware and software to do so, and immense practical “know how”, Tree of Life Biotech took a strategic decision to partner with BioChar Now, LLC. and leverage the many achievements and milestones which it has reached over the past 12 years. These achievements include 16 issued patents, and certifications including ISO, US-EPA, USDA Bio-preferred, CEPA (Canada), OMRI (Organic Certification), and Israeli Ministry of Agriculture. We also have the ability to offer and sell Carbon Credits.

Old Durham Wood 
Northern California's largest public wood lot.