Minnesota greenhouse using own biomass for energy savings

Minnesota Public Radio
by Sea Stachura, Minnesota Public Radio
July 9, 2009

Altura, Minn. — Pork & Plants, a farm and greenhouse business in southeastern Minnesota, is using its agricultural waste to heat its facilities. The farm won an innovation award for creating renewable biomass pellets that heat the greenhouses.

Pork & Plants is mainly a plant business today. The greenhouses rise up out of the Whitewater River Valley and cover a little over an acre of land. Eric Kreidermacher and his family own the business.

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