Facing The Fire: Innovative Uses of Biochar and Permaculture Design to Mitigate Wildfire Risk (Weekend Workshop)

Join Elkstone Farm for a mix of lectures, demonstrations, and interactive discussion; you will learn best practices in the areas of:

• Climate, carbon, and wildfire in the Wildland Urban Interface

• Forest stewardship planning, practices, and system design

• Protecting and enhancing ecosystem services and amenity values

• Managing natural risk: system design and biochar use for watershed protection

• Forest assessment, thinning, and succession planning 

• Equipment and methods for making biochar 

• Siting strategy and best practices

• Kiln loading and use

• Firing and quenching the kiln 

• Carbon sequestration and emerging markets

• Resources for creating resilient forests

Sunday afternoon enjoy a sneak-peek showing of PINA’s Fire Ecology Restoration documentary from the Oregon project. See these ideas in action. Followed by a panel discussion with Q&A.

Before you leave, don’t forget to pick up a bag of biochar to experiment with on your own.

This event is co-sponsored by YVSC.