Biochar On Site · Wednesday, August 5 2026 · Noon – 1:30pm Pacific
Is your project a carbon project?
Start Keeping Receipts — a field guide for biochar producers
A field guide for biochar producers — what a carbon project actually asks of you, in the order it asks for it.
Most explanations of carbon credits start at the registry and work down. This one starts at the kiln and works up, because the thing that decides whether you have a project is usually settled before there is a project — in what you were, or weren’t, writing down at the time.
What you’ll leave with
- A records checklist you can start keeping this week — organised by part of your operation, so it’s usable before you’ve chosen a methodology and still usable after.
- A look at what a PDD actually contains. The real document, page count and all.
- A five-question self-screen to run on your own operation. A screen, not a verdict — five questions that tell you whether to keep going or stop.
The one-page handout and the full slides will be posted on this page after the session.
About the session
July’s session covered the carbon methodologies available to low- and mid-tech biochar production. This one turns to the practical side: what actually has to happen, and in what order, for a pile of char to become a credit someone will buy. Wyatt Catron of 3Degrees, who presented in July, will be on hand for follow-up questions from that session.
Most of what determines whether you have a project is decided before there is a project. A producer with a kiln running today is already generating — or quietly destroying — the evidence base a carbon project will need: where the feedstock came from, when production started, what got measured, and where the char ended up. Those records cost almost nothing to keep now and are expensive or impossible to reconstruct later. I’ll walk the full project lifecycle from both sides at once — what’s happening on paper, and what’s happening at the kiln that same week — defining terms like PDD, MRV, and verification as they come up rather than in the abstract.
The session follows the whole arc rather than any single stage, so that by the end the sequence is clear: what comes first, what depends on it, and where a producer’s own choices carry the most weight.
Graphic courtesy of Biochar On Site
Questions about your own operation, or whether a project makes sense for you?
or email alicia@kcarbonintegrity.com