Grow and make your own charcoal to cook wonderful food on high quality jikos at minimal cost with maximum returns!
With the new ''seed-to-ash'' biomass energy kiln and tree seed kit, you can easily grow your own money! Of course in the form of:
- Timber
- Posts
- Charcoal and firewood from the branches
- Live Fences
- Bio-Medicine (species specific)
A whole tree is far too valuable to just be turned into charcoal alone. We will always need trees for timber, to cook with and for their keystone ecosystem services - the least we can do when we use the trees we have grown, is to do so to their maximum value.
The following 3 steps is a brief guide to a simple field tested and market proven method of 100% self-reliance on an easy to grow fuel source; branch charcoal.
Step One 1: Plant and Grow Trees!!! - Our rule of thumb is that you will regret planting one less tree than one more tree 20 years from now. So grow more trees! :)
If you are unable to dig holes or get plastic bag seedlings, try out our NEW no-till broadcast seeding biochar seedballs (more info here http://www.seedballskenya.com/home/4592985892)
Step 2: Make the charcoal! With a Cookswell woodfuel independence kit (6,500ksh - small kiln, tree seeds http://cookswell.co.ke/our-products/category/kilns ) all you have to do is implement a rotational management forestry plan. You can easily prune your trees for branches and then carbonize them in your mini-kiln. The carbonization process to fill this mini-kiln takes 8 hours (appx. 7-9kgs). It also makes charcoal that is perfectly sized for an energy saving jiko.
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| Sealing off the kiln to cool |
The large charcoal making kiln below produces appx. 30kgs of charcoal per 8hours from 100kgs of wood/maize cobs/coconuts etc.
You can also trap the smoke and make wood vinegar and wood tar for on farm termite proofing!
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SEE HERE FOR HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN WOOD VINEGAR http://kenyacharcoal.blogspot.co.ke/2016/05/how-to-make-your-own-wood-vinegar-with.html |
You can also use your kiln to make your own Biochar as well from all sorts of woody biomass feedstocks.
Step 3: Buy a Cookswell Jiko and cook great food! Below are a few pictures of just some of our wonderful high quality jikos that are perfect for home or commercial use.
Portable catering at its best!
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| Impress you customers with our specialty animal shaped BBQs |
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| A large oven at a bakery (70,00ksh) |
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| Two medium ovens (left one is the safari model) a mini oven and a space heater |
Contact us at www.cookswell.co.ke and info@cookswell.co.ke
