Our Workshops
SBB workshops bring the power of biochar straight to your farm, village, or community. Whether you’re looking to enrich soils, cut input costs, protect your plants or fight climate change from the ground up, SBB is here to help you get started.
Recent Sessions
Greenhouse Gas Removal Future Leaders Event & C02RE
Devon, UK – May 22nd – 25th 2025
Lanka Organic Agriculture Movement & FIAN
Colombo, Sri Lanka | April 30th 2025
Walsapugala Farming Comittee
What You Will Learn
Sessions are part-theory, part-practical, first explaining what biochar is and why it works before showing participants- step by step- exactly how they can transform everyday biowaste like crop residues or
garden trimmings into pure, unadulterated carbon: a ground-boosting, valuable soil supplement they can make for free.
Workshops are practical and down-to-earth, designed for farmers, cooperatives and NGOs wanting to see, touch and even taste high-quality biochar to learn about nature’s newest, oldest agricultural technology.
Attendees leave not just with knowledge, but with the confidence to make and use biochar by themselves using simple tools and local materials.
Introductory theory session outlining exactly what biochar is, the differences between biochar and charcoal, its value for farms and what application rates are advised.
Second half of the theory session explains exactly why biochar works by showing participants biochar’s structural properties, its reaction to other inputs like fertiliser and irrigation, why it protects cultivations during droughts, extreme weather, pests and diseases, and some of the other unexpected benefits biochar can have once applied.
The first part of the practical session will show participants how to prepare their feedstock and different methods of pyrolysis.
This part of the practical shows the group how to start and tend to on-farm, artisanal biochar production.
The final part of the practical session shows learners how to optimise the char to attain maximal benefit, and how they should apply the finished biochar to their different cultivations.
Register Interest
Knowledge transfer and capacity building are critical tools in shifting practices away from damaging, wasteful open field / stubble burning toward a more proactive, value-creating solution using biochar. Trainers will show participants exactly how they can get involved, for free, using materials already available.
If you would like to bring a hands-on education session to your local community, do not hesitate to reach out and get in touch.