Climate-Smart Fuel and Soil with Biogas

Biogas is a simple, safe fuel that can be made from kitchen scraps, brewer’s grain, manure and more.  Globally, there are over 40 million digesters, but here in the US there are just a few thousand, mainly at the large scale.   As fuel prices rise along with the effects of climate change, more and more Americans are turning to small-scale biogas to meet their needs for fuel, waste processing, and soil health at their farms, homesteads and community gardens.

Biogas is a local, renewable, inexpensive, carbon-neutral fuel that mitigates social injustices and environmental imbalances caused by fossil fuel dependence, while increasing our capacity to be part of a full circle food-waste-fuel-food system.  Models show that widespread adoption of biogas will cut carbon emissions in the Northeast by at least 10%, putting biogas on Project Drawdown’s Top Ten list.  Biogas can run at many different scales; our focus is on small-scale systems of 1-20 cubic meters.

Join Elyssa Serrilli (MA) of Northeast Biogas Initiative and Kathy Puffer (NY) of Biogas Education Hub for an introduction to biogas.  You’ll learn

• the basics of how biogas works,
• a few examples of biogas in action,
• how mixing bio-fertilizer with biochar makes soils more resilient to both floods and droughts,
• Kathy’s experience using bio-fertilizer to build soil at her homestead, and how she cooks at home using biogas.