College harvests willow for biomass fuel

Posted on January 6, 2011 |

• Middlebury
• environment
• green energy
• Middlebury College

By Tamara Hilmes

MIDDLEBURY — Those working in Middlebury College’s sustainability office are feeling a bit more “chipper” this week.

On Tuesday, Middlebury College employees began harvesting the first batch of wood chips from its willow test plot in two fields to the west of the campus off Route 125, bringing the school’s biomass plant one step closer to processing its own wood fuel.

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