Forests to Fields Fund:
Saving Our Summers.
Smoke ruins summer.
One burn. Three wins: less wildfire fuel, carbon removed for good, healthier local soil.
We know it all too well. The AQI is double the temp outside, the orange sun reminds you something isn’t right. Kids stay inside, your upcoming camping trip is cancelled. You can smell it inside and out. Someone in your family reaches for an inhaler.
That smoke starts as wood — millions of tonnes of slash, prunings, and overgrown understory piling up across Northwest Washington faster every year. The usual options for that wood are to burn it in an open pile, or to wait and let a wildfire burn it for us.
There is a third option. We put the wood in a kiln, burn it clean, and walk away with biochar: a stable carbon that stays put for centuries and feeds the soil it goes into. Less fuel in the woods. Less carbon in the air. Better ground under the food we grow.
Help us bring it to a forest near you.
Photo: Dave Walker
Our Goal:
$150,000
This year’s $150,000 goal is Year One of our five-year, $750,000 Forest to Fields Fund — the capital that carries our team through wildfire season and deploys the first cohort of five community biochar operators. It's the proof that turns a working model into a growing network.
How it Works
1. We turn waste wood into biochar. Trained local land stewards use flame-cap kilns to convert slash and prunings — wood that would otherwise be burned in open piles or fuel a wildfire — into stable biochar.
2. The carbon is removed — permanently. That carbon is locked away for centuries, verified and issued as carbon-removal credits. We've already proven the full chain.
3. The soil comes back to life. Returned to local fields, biochar improves water retention and grows healthier ground — keeping the value right here in our bioregion.
This isn't conceptual —
It's working now.
“Biochar + compost is the single most important tool we have for building healthy soils on our farm…
Thank you KCT for bringing this technology to our attention and spreading the practice of biochar across our bioregion.”
— Samuel Janis, East of Eden Farm
99 practitioners trained
22 carbon credits issued
5 years of service
3+ local partners
99 practitioners trained 22 carbon credits issued 5 years of service 3+ local partners
Every gift protects our summers.
$1,000 underwrites a community burn workshop — training practitioners and producing biochar for local soil.
$10,000 deploys a complete operator node — kiln, training, and carbon documentation — removing ~232 tonnes of CO₂ over ten years.
Any amount moves us toward $150,000 — and during the campaign, gifts are matched up to $5k, so your early gift goes further!