For over a decade, Barstow’s Longview Farm has been home to an anaerobic digester, a machine that turns methane and by-products from cow manure and food scraps from local businesses (like our butter making creamery!) into electricity, heat, fertilizer and bedding. The digester generates enough electricity to power the farm and churn Cabot’s butter (the equivalent of powering 250 homes)! We think digesters are pretty amazing because they give things that are normally considered waste (like poop and food scraps) a new purpose.

You can access the letter, activity pages and PowerPoint below:

Letter from Denise >>
Watch Life on the Farm >>
Slides for the Classroom >>