Four Oaks Community Farm, Topeka, Kansas

Pyrolysis Gas Flare
in Test Burn #7

burning our way to a better worldÑ
Ña carbon-negative future
growing nutrient-dense food

Do you...
Wonder about our weird warm winter weather?
Think you can help reduce greenhouse gases?
Imagine a society not powered by fossil fuels?
Look for ways to curb your carbon footprint?
Believe that naturally fertile soil is alive?
Want to taste nutrient-dense food?

Then you should learn how to...
Make & Use Biochar*
with TLUD* stoves
to sequester carbon, enliven soil
and grow nutrient-dense food
PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO BIOMASS GASIFICATION
with
Brad Rush & David Yarrow
at
10am, Saturday, March 31
1pm, Sunday, April 1
6pm, Monday, April 2
Four Oaks Community Farm
1916 NW Gordon St., Topeka, Kansas
* Biochar = charcoal from biomass for soil
* TLUD = Top-Lit Up-Draft


Brad Rush
adjusts the chimney cap
in Test Burn #2

renewable gas from biomass
For $20, in 3 hours, you will learn:
to cook with a 1-gallon TLUD
to fabricate, load & fire a 55-gallon TLUD
procedures & equipment to safely operate a TLUD
55-gallon permanent TLUD at Four Oaks Farm
30-gallon portable TLUD at Four Oaks Farm
to prepare biochar for use in soil

more workshop information:
dyarrow5@gmail.com
785-383-0690 - Brad Rush

making biochar at Four Oaks:
www.dyarrow.org/1stBurn

TLUDs and biomass gasification:
Micro-gasification
Biomass Energy Foundation
World Stoves

adding biochar to soil:
Carbon Farming
Using Biochar in Soil
Lettuce Seedling Trials 2010

nutrient-dense food & farming:
Nutrient-Dense Farming at Saratoga Apple
Milk, Trace Elements & Immunity
Sea Minerals in Agriculture

Learn to burn carbon-negative
Learn to live in the 21st Century
Co-create carbon accountable culture
Build sustainable community in Kansas
NOW


BURN: 1st - 2nd - 3rd - 4th - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16
Classes - Biochar - Gasifiers - Biogas - Photos - Videos
Mushrooms - Compost - Compost Tea - Sea Minerals - Fracking

BIOCHAR:

the story
the source
the miracle
the promise
Lettuce Seedlings
Trials with Biochars
Saratoga Apple, Summer 2010
Carbon-Negative
Farming
growing food in changing climate
Nutrient Dense Farming
at Saratoga Apple


The Earth Renewal and Restoration Alliance — www.ancientforests.uswww.carbon-negative.uswww.nutrient-dense.info2/14/2009