Resources
Workshop - Transform your yard or courtyard into a carbon sink
On Sunday 16th March 2025 Transition Town Vincent hosted a workshop – ‘Transform your yard or courtyard into a carbon sink’ at the Floreat Athena Clubrooms located at the NW corner of Britannia Reserve in Leederville. This page contains resources associated with the workshop. The workshops objectives were: Introduce the basic principles for transforming your…
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Forum - Transforming the City into a Carbon Sink
The aim of this forum is to raise awareness and facilitate discussion around the concept of using a circular / regenerative urbanism approach to transform urban food and woody waste into carbon rich products such as compost and biochar and sinking this back into the soil to provide a range of benefits such as reducing…
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Soil Organic Carbon and Urban Soil
Introduction Soil and terrestrial vegetation are carbon sinks with around two thirds of the terrestrial carbon pool sequestered in soil (ASOE,2021). Clearing, development and management of land for intensive landuses such as agriculture and urban have resulted in the loss of significant amounts of terrestrial carbon and organic matter with Australia listed as number 3…
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Biochar research
This page is intended to provide a compendium of biochar related research related to themes being pursued through the My Healthy Soils Project. As such it is limited in its scope. Please scroll down the page as required. This page will be updated as time allows. Last update 6/12/2024. General Joseph et al. (2022) How biochar…
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Biochar for Community Gardens
In July of this year Ian Kininmonth from the Transition Town Vincent (TTV) My Healthy Soils Project approached the North Perth Community Garden (NPCG) about biochar and the prospect of having a workshop demonstrating how to make and use biochar in the community garden. Like many community gardens, the NPCG already produced compost and worm…
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My Healthy Soils
Some useful resources relevant to the Transition Town Vincent (TTV) My Healthy Soils Project including program logic, guidelines, papers, and videos. Project One pager Project overview Program logic Newsletters January 2025 November 2024 Information Guideline Planting fruit trees with biochar and compost Guidelines – Operation of the Top Lit Updraft TLUD Biochar Oven V2 Biochar…
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Community Food Forest
Resources relevant to the planning, planting, monitoring and maintenance of the Transition Town Vincent Community Food Forest. Resources 1. Project Inception Report – TTV Community Food Forest – July 2023 2. Progress Report – Using biochar and compost in the City of Vincent Community Food Forest- January 2024 3. Guideline Planting fruit trees with biochar…
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