Karen Cook, whose family owns Cider Hill Farm in Amesbury, shows state official Ian Bowles a method of growing strawberries that involves less water yesterday.
(Josh Reynolds for the Boston Globe)
On farm, sun, wind get extra chores
Karen Cook, whose family owns Cider Hill Farm in Amesbury, shows state official Ian Bowles a method of growing strawberries that involves less water yesterday.
(Josh Reynolds for the Boston Globe)
AMESBURY - Readouts on two meters along a wall inside a barn at Cider Hill Farm tell the story: Since last November, solar panels out back have generated about 13,500 kilowatt hours of power, and a nearby wind turbine has racked up about 1,400 kilowatt hours of power since it went online in January. (Full article: 426 words)
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