Biochar
with Michael Low
Sunday July 16 at 12:30
Presented by Peacham Garden Group
Michael has been farming and gardening organically for 22 years. Michael also stewards his farm's forests, harvesting the 'worst trees first' in order to improve the health, beauty and ease of use of our forests. They began making biochar from their forestry operations in 2010 using an Adam Retort and an Oregon Flame Cap Kiln. Biochar has been used for thousands of years around the globe to improve soils.
Learn how to use it, make it and discuss the many benefits of biochar!
Coming up….
Peacham Summer Series
Tuesday July 18, 7:00 Travis Samuels, ZION Growers
Travis is co-owner, COO, and Director of Business Development for ZION Growers, an industrial hemp processing and value added products company located in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. he company's goal is getting it from its raw form in a farmer's field into a material that can be turned into clothes, fuel pellets, or plastics by processing the hemp plant and turning it into bales of fiber and piles of hurd, which looks similar to wood chips. Learn how ZION Growers evolved from a CBD focused venture to a fiber based processor, the pitfalls they encountered, the market research they did to assess and confirm the potential for their current iteration.
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