Building Farm and Food Scrap Digesters

By Nora Goldstein, BioCycle June 2014, Vol. 55, No. 5, p. 58 A steady stream of anaerobic digestion facilities are coming on line, most equipped to process food waste. This first of a two-part series profiles several farm digesters. In the past several weeks, we received invitations to two ribbon cuttings for newly installed farm-based … Read more

Farmer Friday: Barstow’s Longview Farm

Cabot Creamery Cooperative by Ann Hoogenboom Sustainability is all about cycles. It asks us to question what we throw away – challenging the standard practice of produce, use and dispose. Whether we think about repurposing, as in the case of the Freund Family and their Cow Pots made from manure, or reuse, as Cabot farm … Read more

Building Green: Presby Enviro-Septic

We make many efforts to keep our energy use as low as possible. Barstow’s Dairy Store and Bakery was built with many features that help it to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly in an effort to reduce our carbon footprint. The Presby enviro-septic protects the environment by purifying waste water before releasing it into … Read more

Building Green: Insulation

We make many efforts to keep our energy use as low as possible. Barstow’s Dairy Store and Bakery was built with many features that help it to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly in an effort to reduce our carbon footprint. Barstow’s Dairy has super insulated extra thick walls, eighteen inch thick insulation in the … Read more

Building Green: Eating Ware

We make many efforts to keep our energy use as low as possible. Barstow’s Dairy Store and Bakery was built with many features that help it to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly in an effort to reduce our carbon footprint. We try to implement the “Reduce, Recycle, Reuse” policy whenever possible. We compost just … Read more

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