Chew On This: Farmers Are Using Food Waste To Make Electricity

Posted on 3rd December 2019
in Biogas/Anaerobic Digestion, Farm Powered Partners, Food Waste, Renewable Energy
by VanAdmin

This story was produced as part of a collaboration with the PBS NewsHour. Hosted by Allison Aubrey. Learn how Massachusetts farmers, food retailers, and food manufacturers are turning farm and food waste into renewable energy.

PBS NewsHour Waste Not

Posted on 3rd December 2019
in Farm Powered Partners, Food Waste, Renewable Energy
by VanAdmin

In the final episode of the special series this week on food waste, PBS News Hour series “Waste Not, Want Not” looks at some innovative solutions being developed to deal with the growing problem of spoiled and surplus food in this country. Special correspondent Allison Aubrey visited a state where dairy farmers are using it to power their farms and more.

The New Business Imperative – Employees turn environmental action into a workplace necessity

Posted on 10th September 2019
in Biogas/Anaerobic Digestion, Food Waste, Renewable Energy
by VanAdmin

This survey of Fortune 1000 employees finds that if companies are to meet employee expectations for corporate environmental efforts, and reap the associated benefits, they have significant work ahead of them.

Milestones Reached as Vermont Gas, Vanguard Renewables Break Ground on Biogas-RNG Project

Posted on 26th August 2019
in Biogas/Anaerobic Digestion, Food Waste, Renewable Energy
by VanAdmin

For many who attended the groundbreaking for the new dairy digester at Vermont’s Goodrich Farm, the sense of true celebration was palpable.

Diversification the secret behind Bar-Way Farm’s century of success

Posted on 26th August 2019
in Biogas/Anaerobic Digestion, Food Waste, Renewable Energy
by VanAdmin

DEERFIELD — Steven Melnik used horses when he started his farm in 1919. A century later, his great-grandson can use his smartphone to turn on the pumps at a 750,000-gallon methane digester that makes bedding for dairy cows, as well as electricity, fertilizer and heat.

Media Coverage for the official groundbreaking at Goodrich Farm of Salisbury biodigester

Posted on 22nd August 2019
in Biogas/Anaerobic Digestion, Food Waste, Renewable Energy
by VanAdmin

Multiple news outlets covered this historic event, and groundbreaking of the new Salisbury Anerobic Digestor. Read coverage from WPTZ (NBC5), VtDigger, Houston Chronicle, VtBiz, WCAX.

Vanguard Renewables, Goodrich Farm, Middlebury College, and Vermont Gas Celebrate Groundbreaking for Facility that Turns Manure and Food Waste into Renewable Energy

Posted on 22nd August 2019
in Biogas/Anaerobic Digestion, Food Waste, Renewable Energy
by VanAdmin

Middlebury will be the primary consumer of the RNG produced at the dairy farm.

Vermont farm turns manure into renewable energy, powering Middlebury College

Posted on 21st August 2019
in Biogas/Anaerobic Digestion, Food Waste, Renewable Energy
by VanAdmin

The digester, which extracts methane from manure and food waste, is similar in design to the one under construction in Salisbury, Vermont.

How cows will help heat a Vermont college campus

Posted on 21st August 2019
in Biogas/Anaerobic Digestion, Food Waste, Renewable Energy
by VanAdmin

SALISBURY, Vt. (WCAX) Soon cows will help heat a local school campus. Tuesday, Middlebury College and its partners broke ground on a new facility on the Goodrich Family Farm in Salisbury.

Partners hail groundbreaking of Salisbury biodigester

Posted on 21st August 2019
in Biogas/Anaerobic Digestion, Food Waste, Renewable Energy
by VanAdmin

Chase and Danielle Goodrich, operators of a 900 milking cow dairy in southern Addison County, had a decades long dream come true on Tuesday when construction began on a plant that will turn manure into natural gas.

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Chew On This: Farmers Are Using Food Waste To Make Electricity

PBS NewsHour Waste Not

The New Business Imperative – Employees turn environmental action into a workplace necessity

Milestones Reached as Vermont Gas, Vanguard Renewables Break Ground on Biogas-RNG Project

Diversification the secret behind Bar-Way Farm’s century of success

Media Coverage for the official groundbreaking at Goodrich Farm of Salisbury biodigester

Vanguard Renewables, Goodrich Farm, Middlebury College, and Vermont Gas Celebrate Groundbreaking for Facility that Turns Manure and Food Waste into Renewable Energy

Vermont farm turns manure into renewable energy, powering Middlebury College

How cows will help heat a Vermont college campus

Partners hail groundbreaking of Salisbury biodigester

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