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Category: Regenerative Agriculture

Edible Innovators: Still Farming: Organic vegetables and “the world’s second oldest profession” go hand in hand on Whiskey Hill

Edible Innovators: Still Farming: Organic vegetables and “the world’s second oldest profession” go hand in hand on Whiskey Hill

In this fascinating article in Edible Monterey Bay, Deborah Luhrman writes:
“What was once a giant packing shed now houses fermentation tanks and 12-foothigh distillation towers where Blume has been practicing what he calls “mankind’s second oldest profession”—making alcohol. The objective is to manufacture and sell distillation equipment that converts food wastes into alcohol, which can then be used for dozens of purposes from fuel to vodka….”

"Farmer Dave" Blume
The Process & Benefits of Our Double Fermentation

The Process & Benefits of Our Double Fermentation

As part of our zero waste ethos at David Blume’s Whiskey Hill Farms & Science Center, we use two fermentation processes to produce alcohol and fertilizer. Instead of the current practice of treating most agricultural byproduct from agricultural operations as waste, this process turns this “waste” biomass into fertilizer and alcohol and reduces the waste stream going to the county landfill.

Alcohol Fuel
Blume Industries & Whiskey Hill Farms Receive Another USDA / SARE Grant

Blume Industries & Whiskey Hill Farms Receive Another USDA / SARE Grant

April 22, 2022. “In 2021, biotech company Blume Industries and Whiskey Hill Farms became recipients of The Farmer Rancher Grant, a major grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Western Division of Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE). “The grant aims to support farmers and ranchers who are striving for sustainability; since 2009, BI…

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Education & Outreach

David Blume Open House at Whiskey Hill Farms

David Blume hosted an open house at Whiskey Hill Farms to demonstrate the no-waste local-scale alcohol distillery set-up and other regenerative agriculture technologies developed and implemented by Blume.

Alcohol Fuel
Regenerative Agriculture

Regenerative Agriculture

Regenerative agriculture practices aren’t just sustainable, they improve the health of the soil and the Earth with every action. See Whiskey Hill Farms soil test results for 2013, 2017, and 2021. Photo Gallery Posts


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