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Save the farm, save the environment: Granville farm unveils digester that generates power from manure and food waste
GRANVILLE — Rockwood Farm has 600 cows and one 800,000-gallon stomach. The “stomach,” an 18-foot-deep tank of cow manure and food waste slurry, is really an anaerobic digester. Inside, natural microorganisms from the cow’s digestive tract grow in waste...
Thompson Farm Gets $244k REAP Grant For Digester
A $244,000 USDA Rural Energy for America Program grant has been awarded to Fort Hill Farm AG-Grid LLC. The announcement followed a visit to Fort Hill Farms by US Sen. Richard Blumenthal on Oct. 30. The grant will be used for the purchase and installation of a 450kW...
Rockwood Ag-Grid’s anaerobic digester is receiving food waste now!
Cow Power: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Ag-Grid Energy
Ag-Grid Energy has a vision to convert agricultural and organic waste into renewable energy, compost and support local area practices that lead us towards a sustainable environment. The company intends to finance, build, own (jointly), operate the waste to energy...
Ag-Grid Energy was granted the Recycle Grant to add facilities at Granville, MA
BOSTON — The Baker-Polito Administration today awarded nearly $1 million in grants to six companies under the Commonwealth’s Recycling Business Development Grant (RBDG) program, which will enable the companies to better process and manage food material, wood, and...
Sustainability Is Key To Fort Hill Farms Future
Farming is in Kies Orr's blood. The 24-year-old is the third generation to work at Fort Hill Farms, in Thompson. The dairy farm was started by her grandfather, Ernie O'Leary, 70 years ago. Now, Fort Hill Farms is riding a wave of technological breakthroughs that...
Rockwood Ag-Grid receives Air Permit to build Anaerobic Digester in Granville MA
Digester will produce enough renewable energy to light up 320 US homes and divert 20,000 tons of organic waste from landfills Oct 18, 2017 Granville, MA-- Rockwood Ag-Grid LLC is pleased to announce that the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (Mass...