by Kevin McLean | Nov 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
Side by side burn. This video shows how farmers typically burn their maize crop waste (pile on the left) by making piles, lighting the piles on the side and letting them burn to ash in a cloud of smoke. We train the farmers to light the pileson the top and smother the... by Kevin McLean | Nov 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Biochar is incredible. It doubles crop yield, improves soil fertility forever and improves the water retention capability of soil (a buffer against drought). Great climate change adaptation. And, biochar sequesters carbon and greatly reduces smoke from crop waste... by Kevin McLean | Apr 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
We are starting our launch in Tanzania! By the end of April, we hope that almost all women leaders in the 1140 Catholic parishes will be selling solar lights to replace filthy kerosene lamps, training women to use the cooking hole and training farmers to make biochar... by Kevin McLean | Mar 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
We encourage the use of crop waste in the cooking hole. But wood works well, too. Less wood Less smoke Little tending Biochar by Kevin McLean | Mar 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Most Catholic parishes in Uganda are giving small bags of biochar to farmers so the farmers can test biochar on their farms. This will allow the farmers to see the benefits of biochar first hand. The first planting season is weeks away. Most of Uganda has two growing... by Kevin McLean | Feb 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
This is exciting! Catholic parish women leaders in Africa are becoming forces of change. Sun24 has empowered these women in Uganda and Kenya by giving them “smart feature phones” that give them Internet access for the first time. Now they can easily... 
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