Exeter

Passion is what many family farms are about, especially those that have done business over the course of generations. And that love appears to be sustaining Maine's farms in the face of modern challenges.

For several years now, Adam Wintle and Dan Bell have been pitching the concept that burying food garbage in landfills is a huge waste of a renewable energy source with numerous environmental benefits. That message wasn't exactly embraced, they say, by the garbage haulers, commercial landfills and trash-to-energy companies that didn't want to divert food waste tonnage from their revenue streams.

The future of a fifth-generation Maine farm is in the crapper, and it could be the best...

A dairy farm in Exeter, Maine, today unveiled a new energy system powered by cow manure. State...