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.
