New South Organic Farm: A Business Model for Organic Farming
It’s a chilly 42 degrees outside on a November afternoon, but inside a covered “tunnel house” on New South Organic Farm near Moundville the...
Biofuel: The Farmer’s Alchemist To Stop Waste of Biomass
There’s oil in them there … corn cobs?
A Tuscaloosa-based company certainly thinks so. Inventure Renewables has created a process to take basic waste biomass,...
Modernizing Water Management—Alabama’s Long Haul
If there is any question about the value of water, consider that most people would die in three days without it. Necessary for industry,...
Warming Chickens with Wood Pellets: Taking Chicken Carbon Neutral
Davis Lee understands the challenges of the poultry industry. He raised chickens as a boy growing up in North Carolina in the ’40s and...
Alabama Timber’s Sustainability Stockpile
Did you know that trees from Alabama may be keeping the lights on at Buckingham Palace?
Wood pellets from Alabama and a lot of other...
Second Career Farmers Sell Natural Crops Locally
A 1996 civil engineering graduate from the University of Alabama, Trent Boyd was working for a building and excavation contractor in Birmingham when it...
Farm Technology Continues to Grow on Glenn Acres
Don and Brian Glenn started looking into the use of automated data collection on their Hillsboro farm in the mid-1990s to help improve their...
Organic Farming from Randall Hastings: Head of Hastings Farm
Randall Hastings, age 60, heads Hastings Farm, one of the largest organic farms in Alabama, located in Bay Minette, the county seat of Baldwin...
Gulf Oil Feeding Frenzy
Remember when the Exxon Valdez supertanker struck a reef in 1989 and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound?...
Wind Farm Turbulence Statewide
The winds of change are blowing across Alabama as renewable energy projects are proposed in Cherokee, Etowah and Baldwin counties. St. Clair and Cleburne...