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Sustainable Site Solutions

We merge traditional knowledge with carbonization strategies to convert woody slash into biochar. The portable technology we utilize integrates seamlessly into land management, while hands-on training empowers stewards to enhance soil health and carbon sequestration.

NRCS / USDA Funding

Learn how National Resource Conservation Service can subsidize biochar making with their (CSP)  & (EQUIP)  programs on your land. Learn more by clicking the button below

Education Services

We’re on a mission to awaken the world to biochar’s power in climate resilience. By transforming quenched coals into a vital resource, we enrich soil, protect watersheds, and drive sustainability. Join us in turning waste into value for a stronger, greener future.

Explore, Learn, and Engage

Discover biochar’s potential in our Education Center. Access expert seminars, resources, and hands-on training through our upcoming Biochar Apprentice Program. Turn knowledge into action and drive sustainable change.

Pyrolysis creates a clean-burning fire, converting biomass, releasing oxygen and hydrogen, and quenching stable carbon as BioChar.

In fire prone areas participating in the burning our forest's excess dead biomass works to reduce devastating wildfires., or to reduce unwanted biomass to this material.

Sequestration of carbon as BioChar, incorporated into our soils, will help hold more water and nutrients, making them available to organisms, including plants, and further across the food web, while keeping the carbon permanently sequestered. As trees and plants uptake water and nutrients, they inhale carbon dioxide, dividing it into carbon and oxygen. Exhaling the oxygen, plants utilize the carbon to grow and exchange carbon with soil organisms for more nutrients.

Reducing volatile compounds typically associated with open burning, creating BioChar stabilizes carbon for sequestration. Instead of burning biomass to ash, which releases significant amounts of carbon dioxide and methane, BioChar production uses clean burning pyrolysis. This process minimizes harmful emissions and helps keep our air clean. By preventing the slow decomposition of biomass into carbon dioxide and methane, Biochar production contributes to a healthier atmosphere.

BioChar is used to filter water clean. Landscapes covered by a layer of BioChar would filter all water, rain or irrigated, that passed through. Studies have shown it can hold up to many times its weight in water. 

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.


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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.

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Climate   Super   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! 

An open above ground fire can increase the amount of BioChar by simply  lighting a full pile from the top and watching it burn down engulfing  BioMass until the flames are gone and a pile of red hot coals remain developing a thin layer of grey ash, then apply as much water as needed to fully quench to cold black BioChar. Rake out the pile of  char as you quench to assure they are fully out & to avoid them  reigniting from any residual heat. Now you have clean empty stable  Carbon BioChar ready for enriched inoculation. If water is not abundant  or available the coals can be smothered with dirt. 

Using a pit will increase the efficiency producing more BioChar than an open above ground fire. There are dangers with starting a file pit below the surface, as root balls nearby can ignite and cause a bigger issue such as a forest fire. Therefore, its best to utilize a Kiln or Pyre, if the desire to make biochar arises, of which we primely advocate..
 
Dig a cone shaped pit 6 feet deep & 6.5 feet wide at the top. Once the initial pile in the pit burns down more fuel  can be added at the rate it burns down until the pit is full and the  flames burn out. Then fill the pit with water to fully quench. More water may  be needed when you dig out the pit full of BioChar, as the pit itself  can retain and radiate heat which could cause the char to reignite days  later. If water is not abundant or available the pit can be covered with dirt to smother the coals. 

Pit dug over 7 feet deep 3 feet wide at the base and over 7 feet wide at the rim. After one afternoon burning we filled the pit full of BioChar made from burning 8 large piles of  Scotch Broom in the pit. The pine log that was added on top was not  completely burned and will be added in the next burn to complete char. 

Portable Kilns are the most efficient in that they convert a high percentage of biomass to make BioChar.  Links for more information about various size  transportable open air kiln designs:

Air curtain burners operate on Diesel motor to spin a air blower, they are portable units that require a CDL to operate in some states, including California.  These units can fit large pieces of wood that convert a percentage of the biomass into biochar. These units fit in to large 1000+ acre project but have a smaller conversion ratios verses the above methods. We see the value in these machines to scale up reduction to conversion for those looking to make an impact verses normal slash to burn procedures. Similar apparatuses such as the Tigercat (Carbonizer) perform similar conversion percentages. 

  • Burnboss - Air Burners
  • Tigercat Carbonator - Air injection

    • Stationary Kilns
    stationary biochar production systems efficiently convert biomass into high-quality biochar while maintaining clean-burning, low-emission processes. These technologies require specific feedstock parameters to ensure optimal performance, with some models needing drying systems for continuous operation, while others function exclusively as batch cookers. Despite these variations, they provide a vital opportunity to centralize large-scale agricultural resources, transforming them into a valuable carbon-rich material essential for soil health, carbon sequestration, and sustainable agriculture. 

  • BiocharNow
  • Sitios Group

    • Partners