Tour of Vanguard Renewables Depackaging Facility
Vanguard Renewables advanced Organics Recycling Facility depackages and processes expired goods, off-spec batches, or unsafe to eat food and beverage products. The extracted food is transported and recycled at a Massachusetts Farm Powered anaerobic digester, where it is combined with farm waste and converted into renewable energy.
Hoard’s Dairyman: Waste is just a mindset on this farm
Many dairy farms have successfully tackled the question of how to find additional revenue streams when other family members want to join the business. Some operations add cows, others expand their land base, and a growing number take the leap into dairy product processing.
Waste 360: The Basics of Anaerobic Digestion with Vanguard Renewables
If food waste were a nation, it would be the third-largest greenhouse gas emitter behind China and the United States, says John Hanselman, founder and CEO of Vanguard Renewables.
BioCycle: Dairy Digester Spawns Multiple Community Benefits
New codigestion facility in Salisbury, Vermont — result of a partnership between a dairy, project developer, college and natural gas utility — to improve nutrient management and supply RNG.
Goodrich Farm: A Definition of Sustainability
Following in the footsteps of the previous generations, Chase and Danielle Goodrich’s drive to outline the farm’s sustainability pillars of environment, economics and society underscores why they were recently recognized as one of the U.S. Dairy 2021 Sustainability Winners.
WDEV interview with John Hanselman and Jack Byrne
WDEV: Vermont Viewpoint with Ric Cengeri Interviews John Hanselman of Vanguard Renewables and Jack Byrne of Middlebury College
Vanguard Renewables Mourns Loss of Recently Appointed Chief Executive Officer, Joel Gay
Vanguard Renewables, a U.S. leader in renewable natural gas, is saddened to announce today that Joel Gay, the company’s recently appointed President and Chief Executive Officer, passed away unexpectedly on July 18, 2021.
VPR – Addison County Is Now Home To The Largest Anaerobic Digester In The Northeast
VPR - Goodrich Family Farm in Salisbury is now home to the largest anaerobic digester in the Northeast. Several dozen people, including Gov. Phil Scott, gathered at the dairy farm Wednesday to celebrate. So how exactly does the digester work?
WCAX – Holy cow power! Vermont has largest anaerobic digester in New England
WCAX: The largest anaerobic digester in New England is now in Vermont. It uses cow manure and food waste to make energy. And it’s not just being used by the farm, it’s helping the community.
Goodrich Farm becomes home to the Northeast’s largest anaerobic digester
My Champlain Valley News report: A Vermont farm is now home to the largest machine in the Northeast that breaks down waste and turns it into renewable energy.
Emily Smith Joins Vanguard Renewables as Chief Financial Officer
BOSTON (July 8, 2021) – Vanguard Renewables, a U.S. leader in renewable natural gas, announced today the appointment of Emily Smith as its Chief Financial Officer.
The Two Degree Difference: Vermont’s Goodrich Farm leads in sustainability
My Champlain Valley News report: Goodrich Family Farm in Salisbury, Vermont has been recognized with a 2021 US Dairy sustainability award. They are one of only three farms chosen nationally.
Goodrich Farm receives National U.S. Dairy Sustainability Award
Goodrich Farm has been recognized with a 2021 U.S. Dairy Sustainability Award for Outstanding Dairy Farm Sustainability. The farm was one of three farms chosen nationally to receive the award and was selected for its many sustainable initiatives including its role in a unique regional partnership to create renewable energy, recycle food waste, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the creation of one of the largest on-farm anaerobic digesters in the U.S.
VT. Dairy Farm Honored With National Award for Sustainable Practices
The Goodrich Family Farm in Salisbury, Vermont, hosts new technology that both removes phosphorus from the environment and converts food scraps and manure into renewable natural gas
Renewable Natural Gas Set For Disruptive Growth
Imagine if you will a renewable source of energy without constraints of time of day or weather. A renewable source of energy whose surface of potential is just now being scratched. Perhaps most importantly in today’s political environment, a source of renewable energy that does not rely on supply chains dominated by adversarial nations as the source of its feedstock, but America’s family farms instead.
Vermont farm raises a crop of energy and teaches us a lesson
The anaerobic digester at Goodrich Family Farm turns cow manure and food waste into carbon-negative, renewable natural gas
Perspectives from the Food Waste Trenches
At Vanguard Renewables, the unavoidable food and beverage "waste" from manufacturing and the supply chain waste that cannot be consumed by people or animals and was once sent to landfills or incineration is the fuel we use to power our farm-based renewable energy facilities
Vanguard Renewables announced as a 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards Finalist
World Changing Ideas Awards 2021 recognizes companies that have achieved incredible impact and have been in business between 5 and 14 years
A Vanguard for growth
Working directly with food manufacturers and other organic waste producers from across the food and beverage spectrum, Vanguard Renewable’s projects have placed an emphasis on recycling organic waste that would have previously ended up in a landfill.
Oklahoma farms to benefit from plan to harness renewable natural gas
Tulsa-based One Gas has entered into a partnership to develop and expand on potentials for tapping farm-based renewable natural gas as an energy option. The partnership with Vanguard Renewables will focus on projects in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas, the companies said in a release. It will be Vanguard Renewables’ first mid-continent alliance with a local natural gas distribution company.
How Whole Foods creates a second chance for would-be food waste
Whole Foods Market Inc. follows a strong food waste strategy to prevent and divert food from entering landfill, mirroring what is proposed in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Food Recovery Hierarchy. According to Whole Foods, each store’s team members are thoroughly trained on food waste efficiency, from smart ordering to food donation best practices.
Food Industry Executive: Consumers Will Pay More for Products That Showcase Brand Values
Consumers don’t just support causes with their words — they’re also willing to put more of their money behind value-driven brands, according to the results Akeneo’s recent survey of 3,500 consumers in seven countries.
Stonyfield Organic Takes on Climate Advocacy & Farm-level Emissions
Britt Lundgren, Director of Organic & Sustainable Agriculture at Stonyfield discusses Stonyfield's current climate priorities with the Climate Collaborative
Sustainable Solutions
By partnering with family farms and the food and beverage industries, the anaerobic digestion facilities at Goodrich Family Farm repurpose unavoidable food waste into value for people and the planet. Building these farm-powered facilities on farms leverages the amazing synergies that exist between food waste recycling and regenerative agriculture practices.
This Food Gets Converted Into Energy
As much as 40 percent of the country's food supply gets thrown out. In Massachusetts, Vanguard Renewables, its farm partners, and companies including Whole Foods are combining that food waste with manure to produce renewable energy.