Fieldays 2025

The 2025 Fieldays saw BNNZ attend again (last in 2022) as part of the Forestry Hub. BNNZ Community Member CharPae was represented by John Wraight’s attendance and featured the Group’s char-b-que set up. This was used by BNNZ committee and helpers to cook around 1000 venison sausages to entice passersby to come and have a chat about biochar. John regularly takes the char-b-que and larger kontiki kiln to events and educational workshops and so also brought gear to set up a “camp kitchen” to keep out of the almost guaranteed Fieldays rains.

This char-b-que is a small kontiki kiln with two steel posts across the top on which various grills are laid and secured to cook in cast iron containers as happily demonstrated by Phil below:

Various biochar talks were given on the Forestry Hub main stage.

Raymond Dobbe talking about his Carbon Kai animal feed supplement product and how it is created with the portable Air Curtain Burner machine which was on display outside:

Phil Stevens talking about how timber processors could get a hat trick of revenue opportunities by converting their woody residues to biochar, electricity, and carbon credits. The state of technology has advanced to a point where a capital investment in this sort of multiple-output pyrolysis plant can be recouped in a few years’ time.

Andrew Finlayson talking about Southland Carbon biochar production in western Southland and one of its primary uses for livestock supplementation offering many benefits to the animals:

Other talks also featured biochar.