We are starting a non-for-profit association to process agricultural waste and produce high-quality biochar. Biochar may look like charcoal, but it has the potential to enhance depleted soils, supercharge their water retention capacities, and increase agricultural productivity, while durably removing and storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to combat climate change .

Through our open-sourced, decentralized and community-driven pyrolysis systems we will empower local farmers and landowners to use their olive wood residues (instead of burning them) and become biochar producers themselves . They can then return the biochar to their own land or use our network to sell it and generate additional revenues. Our ultimate goal is to regenerate Andalusian soil, working with reforestation projects and organic farmers towards stopping the progression of the desert in our region  .

This crowdfunding campaign will fund the manufacture and installation of our first biochar kilns in countryside of Órgiva, along with all the material needed for processing wood residues and the biochar end-product. Please participate or share our crowdfunding page with your friends, family and colleagues!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/collective-regeneration-action-in-southern-spain

If you are living in the area and are interested in processing your wood waste into biochar instead of burning it, contact us at info@sierrapreta.lasalpujarras.online to become a member of our association!