A event on Saturday 2nd December. The event starts at 10:00.
We are hosting a biochar making workshop!
Come and learn how to make this wonderous material with us. We'll be using the biochar within our composting collective as part of the process of making biologically complete living soil.
Find out about this type of charcoal, famously used by the people of the Amazon prior to colonisation to nurture the soil in the region, and the process through which it is made with a talk and practical workshop - led by Shift Bristol composting tutor and biochar-maker Nicky Scott.
We will gather at the wonderful Bridge Farm for a short introductory talk and refreshments before participating in a convivial biochar-making workshop. This is a practical session which will require outdoor clothes, but pitched to mixed abilities so whatever your confidence and competence with sawing / chopping / fire-tending, there will be a role for you!
Following the bio-charing session we will move into bio-CHARGING! We have been producing pure comfrey juice to charge the biochar and inoculate it with all the components it needs to provide compost with the building blocks for mycelium networks, beneficial micro bacteria and microorganisms to flourish. These wonderful allies will help enable plants to draw up high levels of nutrients and receive maximum benefit from the biologically-complete living soil we make.
Then we will share food and entertainment together. Remember, bonfire (bon-fire) comes from "good" fire. When making biochar properly, the fire is predominantly smokeless with bright hot flames to benefit the people sharing it. Then the fire is doused, and around 80-90% of the carbon is sequestered - locked into the charcoal to feed into the soils.
Furthermore, according to research published in the journal Nature Geoscience, "based on European emissions of about 1.1 gigatonnes of carbon per year, we estimate that biochar could offset around 9% of Europe's emissions."
https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo395
Whilst Bristol Living Soil does not advocate carbon-offsetting, it is clear that there are a multitude of reasons why scientists and economists are looking seriously at biochar as a transformative solution for mitigating climate change.One thing we do love is that biochar is a low-tech, proven practice - at least 2000 years of carbon-sequestration and fertiliser-making across multiple cultures and continents!
We are hosting this workshop at Bridge Farm near the M32 and away from our base at St. Werburghs City Farm in Ashley Vale as there is an issue with airflow in the bowl of the valley, and even the little smoke created will sink and hang in the valley, reducing air quality for residents. Bridge Farm is blessed with a different geography and the open, higher spaces away from houses facilitates the dispersal of any smoke created over a much-wider area - and away from people.
Come and participate in this restorative and regenerative activity, and learn new skills for the great turning and play a role in rebuilding Bristol's soils.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Come and learn how to make this wonderous material with us. We'll be using the biochar within our composting collective as part of the process of making biologically complete living soil.
Find out about this type of charcoal, famously used by the people of the Amazon prior to colonisation to nurture the soil in the region, and the process through which it is made with a talk and practical workshop - led by Shift Bristol composting tutor and biochar-maker Nicky Scott.
We will gather at the wonderful Bridge Farm for a short introductory talk and refreshments before participating in a convivial biochar-making workshop. This is a practical session which will require outdoor clothes, but pitched to mixed abilities so whatever your confidence and competence with sawing / chopping / fire-tending, there will be a role for you!
Following the bio-charing session we will move into bio-CHARGING! We have been producing pure comfrey juice to charge the biochar and inoculate it with all the components it needs to provide compost with the building blocks for mycelium networks, beneficial micro bacteria and microorganisms to flourish. These wonderful allies will help enable plants to draw up high levels of nutrients and receive maximum benefit from the biologically-complete living soil we make.
Then we will share food and entertainment together. Remember, bonfire (bon-fire) comes from "good" fire. When making biochar properly, the fire is predominantly smokeless with bright hot flames to benefit the people sharing it. Then the fire is doused, and around 80-90% of the carbon is sequestered - locked into the charcoal to feed into the soils.
Furthermore, according to research published in the journal Nature Geoscience, "based on European emissions of about 1.1 gigatonnes of carbon per year, we estimate that biochar could offset around 9% of Europe's emissions."
https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo395
Whilst Bristol Living Soil does not advocate carbon-offsetting, it is clear that there are a multitude of reasons why scientists and economists are looking seriously at biochar as a transformative solution for mitigating climate change.One thing we do love is that biochar is a low-tech, proven practice - at least 2000 years of carbon-sequestration and fertiliser-making across multiple cultures and continents!
We are hosting this workshop at Bridge Farm near the M32 and away from our base at St. Werburghs City Farm in Ashley Vale as there is an issue with airflow in the bowl of the valley, and even the little smoke created will sink and hang in the valley, reducing air quality for residents. Bridge Farm is blessed with a different geography and the open, higher spaces away from houses facilitates the dispersal of any smoke created over a much-wider area - and away from people.
Come and participate in this restorative and regenerative activity, and learn new skills for the great turning and play a role in rebuilding Bristol's soils.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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