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How isWood Ash Distributed?

RMI delivers wood ash to customers in large trucks.

How Do FarmersSpread Wood Ash?

Wood ash is spread using traditional farm equipment for manure spreading. A tractor and manure spreader are ideal for spreading the wood ash evenly on fields. In a farm application, wood ash may be placed on top of the field or mixed into the soil.

What Are theEnvironmental Benefits?

The benefits of wood-fired power plants are two-fold:

• They produce local, clean renewable energy and organic wood ash.

• Recycling wood ash reduces our reliance on landfills where the wood ash would otherwise be thrown away.

In addition to these direct environmental benefits, providing wood ash to farmers helps them decrease their farming costs, which reduces the cost of the healthy food they grow.

Wood ash spreading represents a win-win situation for New England farms and communities.

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On a small scale, wood ash from home wood stoves is good for plants too!

Where DoesWood Ash Come From?

There are several power plants in New England that burn trees to generate electricity. Heat from burning the wood makes steam; the steam turns large, rotating engines called turbines, which generate electricity. After the wood has burned there is a lot of wood ash left over, very similar to ash from home wood stoves.

How do Power PlantsRecycle Their Wood Ash?

In New England power plants have been using wood to make electricity for over 20 years. The wood ash is then used by farmers on their fields to help grow their crops. Wood ash is also used to improve topsoil for local gardens and in fertilizer products such as organic compost.

How Do FarmersUse Wood Ash?

Just like people, plants need food to grow healthy and strong. Plants get their food from soil. Many soils in New En-gland are missing nutrients that plants need. Farmers add wood ash and other fertilizers to their solid so their plants have a full and balanced diet. Wood ash is less expensive than fertilizers farm-ers can buy from a store. Farmers save approximately $40 per acre compared to commercial fertilizer and lime.

Do All CropsLike Wood Ash?

Crops which grow best in “sweet” soils (a pH of 6 to 7) will benefit from wood ash. At these higher pH levels, the plants use fertilizer more efficiently, and grow bigger and stronger. Hay, corn, alfalfa, and vegetables all benefit from wood ash.A stockpile of wood ash.

Pumpkins love wood ash in their diet.