Become a Biogas Apprentice

With our Biogas Apprenticeship, you can learn everything you need to install and run a small-scale biodigester at your home, workplace or community center:

• Site Assessment - is biogas right for my location? where should i put it?
• System Selection - which biodigester is right for me?
• Installation
• Start Up
• Feedstock - what can I feed my "baby dragon"?
• Optimizing Gas & Fertilizer Yields
• How to use biogas
• How to use bio-fertilizer
• General Maintenance
• Cold Weather Modifications
• Putting your system to rest for the Winter
• Waking your system up in the Spring

Sign up by December 21, 2023.

Term: January - May 2024

Format:

• 3-month online course with Kathy Puffer at Biogas Education Hub (January thru March/April, 1 hr per week)
• 2 fieldwork days at small-scale digesters in our network in Western Mass, where you will put your online learning into hands-on practice
• Connection to Northeast Biogas' community of practice in Western Mass and Hudson Valley, NY in person and on Hylo.com and social media
• Connection to Biogas Education Hub's global network of dragon tenders on Mighty Networks and social media

Cost: $175-350, sliding scale.

Access Rate - $175 - choose this rate if you have low access to funds.
Our Costs - $225 - choose this rate if you are sustaining yourself, but don't have extra funds.
Support Rate - $350 - choose this rate if you have excess funds, and would like to help support others in learning biogas.

BIPOC and need-based scholarships and partial scholarships available on request.
Contact northeastbiogasinitiative@gmail.com.