Harbor Carbon

08/30/2024

Seeyou SJI Farmers Market!

Thornbush Farm is bringing a new product to the . Beer Garden Blend Biochar! It is spent brewer's grains composted with charcoal in a 50/50 blend. Ready to add to your garden to enhance water and nutrient retention and feed soil life. At the San Juan Island Grange booth.

03/26/2024

I've added a new product to my offerings at the San Juan Islands Food Hub: Kiln Run biochar in 4-gallon bags. Straight out of the kiln without crushing or screening beyond removing the biggest chunks, this char is the most affordable we offer. Great for adding to compost piles, animal bedding, and DIY crushing and enhancing.

04/29/2022

A bubbling batch of compost tea brewing. It will be used to infuse woodland biochar for your garden. Available soon, after it has worked its magic.
Find us at the Farmers Market Grange Booth.

03/18/2022

We will have biochar there!

11/20/2021

At the Grange booth at the farmers market today with raw biochar for your chicken coops, worm bins and improving your garden soil.

11/08/2021

A biochar burn in the new reactor. Smokeless flame above, glowing coals below. Gnarly willow becomes excellent charcoal. And heats water as well.

10/25/2021

Drying out the new pyrolizer with small fires. The design allows continuous charcoal production while flue gases go off to the bottom right for heating water for the house, torrefying wood and many other uses. The dry stack of bricks and concrete blocks at the exhaust flues is a temporary construction to create an air draw to help with the drying fires.

10/22/2021

Bringing a new batch of biochar to the farmers market. Find us at the Grange booth. Saturday 9:30 to 1:00.

09/17/2021

Char production season has started, thanks to the rain. Selling once again at the San Juan Islands Food Hub, and as always at the Grange booth at the San Juan Island Farmers Market.

06/02/2021

Starting a new batch charged biochar:
Aerobic compost tea with worm castings and fermented comfrey juice.
Smokeless controlled charcoal burn using douglas fir and willow wood.

05/28/2021

Ooh, a mention of our new charged biochar!

We will have biochar, fruit trees, rhubarb, eggs, veggie starts and lots of other good things from the Growers and Makers of San Juan Island Grange at the farmers market on Saturday.