Exeter farm uses poop to produce energy
Bangor Daily News - 6/8/2012. By Alex Barber – Exeter: One rural Maine business has unveiled a way for it to not only make money, but also help protect the environment. Three state commissioners and several legislators toured Stonyvale Farm, a fifth-generation, family-owned dairy farm, to view its anaerobic digestion system, which turns animal and food wastes into energy. |
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Maine strawberry growers anticipate ‘nice crop’
Portland Press Herald - 6/8/2012. By Kelley Bouchard – Monmouth: Maine strawberry growers are anticipating a good harvest in the coming weeks, despite several spring frosts as flower buds formed and recent heavy rain, according to the University of Maine Cooperative Extension at Highmoor Farm. |
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This year, farm’s building projects include solar power, irrigation
Kennebec Journal - 6/8/2012. Op-Ed by Denis Thoet – We are a relatively new farm, even by the standards of Maine, where new farms seem to crop up every day. Every year is a "building year" and this one is no different. Starting from scratch in 2004, our first year as a community-supported agriculture farm, we have bought hand tools, fencing and posts. We turned a former workshop into apprentice housing, built a 26-by-96-foot-high tunnel hoop house and sheep and cow sheds, built an 8-by-30-foot "sun space" off the west side of the house for spring seedlings, put in miles of drip irrigation, and built a 12-by-12-foot apartment off the apprentice house for year-round living. |
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Monsanto vs. Nature: the weeds fight back
Alternet - 6/7/2012. By Jim Hightower – Rather than find ways to cooperate with the natural world, America's agribusiness giants reach for the next quick fix in a futile effort to overpower nature. Their attitude is that if brute force isn't working, they're probably not using enough of it. |
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