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Kelpie Wilson runs a biochar business. She is running a free webinar on the 19th. If you register, you can get the replay. This is from her blog:
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Free Biochar Webinar on Thursday, November 19th.
Practical Biochar Webinar
Free 90-minute webinar on Thursday, November 19th 2026 at 10 am PT, with Kelpie Wilson and special guest Eric Mayer of Napachar.
Register for the Biochar Webinar
Practical Biochar: From Your Soil to a Business - Free Webinar with Kelpie Wilson and Eric Mayer
Description
Biochar can hold water and nutrients in your soil for generations, but only when it's made and used well. Most people new to biochar over-or-under cook their feedstock, put it in the ground without charging it first, and lose a season or two figuring out why their soil didn't respond.
In this free webinar, Kelpie Wilson of Wilson Biochar, author of The Biochar Handbook, walks through the practical foundations she's built over decades of engineering and 20 years of making, testing and teaching biochar.
You'll learn:
What biochar is, and how it differs from charcoal and wood ash
How to make it with simple, low-cost kilns using the wood and brush you already have
Why fresh biochar can draw nutrients out of your soil, and how to charge it first
Where it pays off most: in compost, gardens and animal bedding
Then special guest Eric Mayer of Napachar shares how biochar can become a business. Napachar brings portable kilns to vineyard burn piles across Napa and Sonoma, turns prunings and pulled vines into biochar on-site with almost no smoke, and leaves the biochar behind to go straight back into the vineyard soil. Eric will walk through how that service works as a business.
We'll close with time for your questions with Kelpie and Eric. Stay to the end for a webinar-only offer on Kelpie's Practical Biochar course, available until Sunday.
This webinar is for farmers, homesteaders, gardeners and land stewards who want to work with biochar confidently, and for anyone curious about building a livelihood around it.
Thursday, November 19th 2026
10 am PT, 11 am MT, 12 pm CT, 1 pm ET
90 minutes
All registrants will receive the replay link.
Hosted by Javan Kerby Bernakevitch, Regenerative Living Online
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