On Earth Day 2024, A.D. Makepeace Companies, in partnership with Sustainable Redbrook, launched an innovative afforestation project in Massachusetts. This project, focused on creating a Miyawaki forest at Redbrook, involves planting over 300 native plants as part of a broader effort to restore depleted land, enhance biodiversity, and increase carbon sequestration. The initiative highlights the collaboration between Standard Biocarbon and Read Custom Soils, combining advanced soil blends with biochar to rejuvenate the local ecosystem.

We are thrilled to announce our new collaboration with Read Custom Soils as exclusive distributor of our premium grade biochar in New England. Read Custom Soils, a leader in precision custom soil blending for the commercial landscape, green roof, golf, and turf industries. ️

Shelburne Farms, located in Shelburne, Vermont, recently turned to an innovative way of utilizing biochar to tackle odor and potentially greenhouse gas emissions arising from their manure pits. With nearly 100,000 visitors a year, Shelburne Farms is an education nonprofit dedicated to building a sustainable future, and its historic campus is a working farm and forest. The integration of biochar into their soil and manure pits has shown significant promise in reducing odor and potentially lowering greenhouse gas emissions, providing a deeper understanding of the revolutionary benefits that biochar can offer to sustainable agriculture.

Unity, Maine has become the center of a groundbreaking research project aimed at introducing biochar into PFAS-contaminated soil to reduce crop uptake and leaching of PFAS into groundwater, as well as improving soil health. Northern Tilth, LLC, working with Hunter Farm and Purdue University, is leading the study, which has been actively underway since October 2023 and is expected to conclude in June 2026. The research explores the utilization and effectiveness of biochar incorporation into PFAS-contaminated soil at Hunter Farm, aiming to reduce PFAS uptake and improve overall soil health. The project is titled “Biochar Use to Reduce Crop Uptake of PFAS and Improve Soil Health.”

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Read our September Newsletter for an update on Standard Biocarbon's progress toward producing source verified, high carbon biochar.

Read this Spring Newsletter for and update on Standard Biocarbon’s progress toward producing source verified, high carbon biochar.

“Standard Biocarbon is at the front of a very large wave of diverse uses of wood products”. Standard Biocarbon Enfield facility continues to progress.

PORTLAND, ME, December 20, 2022, Standard Biocarbon Corporation (SBC) announced the arrival in Portland of two pyrolysis machines to produce high quality “biochar'' from wood chips. Fred Horton, noted that it is particularly exciting to see this equipment being delivered direct to the port of Portland via Eimskip.

Fred Horton just returned from a visit to Pyreg GmbH in Dörth, Germany, to inspect the two pyrolytic kilns Standard Biocarbon Corp has ordered from the manufacturer. The nearly completed PX-1500H biochar reactors, pictured above, will be shipped next month and will be installed adjacent to the Pleasant River Spruce and Pine mills in West Enfield, Maine in November. The facility will produce about 18,000 cubic yards or about 1,300 tons of high carbon biochar per year. Biochar has a high level of durability, lasting hundreds of years in soils, so the carbon content is sequestered where biomass, whether burned or left to decay, is released back to the atmosphere. Biochar has emerged as a highly efficient and scalable atmospheric carbon dioxide removal technology. Standard Biocarbon will supply certified carbon removal credits (CDRs) to emerging private carbon markets such as puro.earth and carbon-future.earth, which offer corporations and individuals the opportunity to offset their carbon emissions. Standard Biocarbon Corporation will exploit the enormous potential for scaling the biochar industry with Maine’s abundant supply of woody biomass.