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BEAM Citizen Pioneers

collage of people involved in BEAM bioreactor projects

When we started the BEAM Bioreactor Registry(opens in new window) we did not realize how enthusiastic people would be about sharing photographs and stories. Here you'll find an ever-changing array of photographs and stories from and/or about people participating in this exciting project.

San Mateo Master Gardeners pose and wave at the camera

Generating a Lot of Excitement

CRARS blog post about the wide variety of people who first got involved in this project.

San Mateo Master Gardeners getting ready to fill their bioreactor

San Mateo Master Gardeners

Photographs and firsthand accounts from the San Mateo Master Gardeners

Tom Newmark and Steven Farrell stand inside the bioreactor they were building

Finca Luna Nueva

Find out about the regenerative mentor-farmers at Finca Luna Nueva in Costa Rica. They just built a bioreactor hoping it will assist with those efforts.

Adrian Bignell in his field

Meet Adrian Bignell, a farmer and rancher in Zambia, Central Africa who is hoping to use BEAM compost in efforts to farm in the midst of current climate-change fueled challenges.

Nathanael Siemens checking the soil on his regenerative cotton field

Fat Uncle Farms

Nathanael Siemens of Fat Uncle Farms is building a bioreactor to help in his efforts to grow cotton regeneratively in Buttonwillow, CA.

People posing in front of a bioreactor project in Kenya

Bioreactor Projects in Rwanda and Kenya

Photographs of bioreactor projects at a poverty and hunger reduction program in Rwanda and at an agriculture research site in Kenya.

hand holding compost

Henning's Project

Success! A report on wonderful results from an unusual choice of composting materials.

The Wright family in their garden

Bioreactor Learning Adventure at The Crooked Post

How failure can be the best teacher.

Tim LaSalle and participants at Cuesta College's Bioreactor event

Tim LaSalle at Cuesta College Event

Part of Cuesta College's Regenerative Agriculture Seminar Series

Group members building a bioreactor.

California Rare Fruit Growers Build a Bioreactor

The California Rare Fruit Growers build a bioreactor in the orchard at Cal Poly.

The land at Urkuwayku before it was rehabilitated.

Johnson-Su Bioreactors Helping to Transform Land and Livelihoods in the Andes

Stephen Sherwood and his family rehabilitate the land on their farm on the slopes of a degraded volcano in Ecuador using BEAM compost as part of the process.