Grass Bioenergy Open House – May 17, 2011
May 5, 2011
EnviroEnergy LLC in cooperation with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Delaware County will hold a grass bioenergy open house on Tuesday, May 17th from 11:00 am – 3:00 pm at the EnviroEnergy mill at 2265 State Highway 7, Unadilla, NY 13849.
Click here for the full press release that contains all the details.
We hope you are able to join us and help kick off our Summer season.
Barley Pellets for Ponds Ready to GO!
May 5, 2011
We have our new Spring batch of Barley Pellets for Ponds made and ready to go. Still only $40 a bag!
Visit our Barley Straw page for some info.
Spring 2011 – EE pellets are perfect soil conditioners and mulch
March 20, 2011
The Franklin Register has a nice article about our pellets. We have discovered that our pellets have many more uses than just fuel. In fact, they are a gardeners best friend! With Spring here we are all thinking about our gardens and the fresh air and sunshine. Well, Enviro Energy is thinking about that too:
“A brand new, grand new use has been discovered for the grass pellets manufactured at Enviro Energy by the Miller family gardeners: they make a wonderful, all natural, soil conditioner and mulch…” continue here
Happy Spring everyone. Get out there and get some sunshine and and the weather.
Happy Holidays and Winter Update
December 20, 2010
A Merry Christmas and Healthy, Prosperous, and WARM New Year to all the folks who worked with us, this second year, in our quest to provide an alternative heating source from abandoned farmer’s fields.
We also want to remind folks that we are selling grass pellets right here at the mill, well under the price of wood pellets from retail stores. This year we are also selling kiln dried pine pellets for horse bedding and cat litter at the same low price. Some are buying these wood pellets for burning. Both have BTUs similar to hardwood pellets. Either pellets also makes a great bedding for those calf hutches.
For stoves that are not compatible with grass, we also now sell CURRAN pellets, manufactured in Northern NY. Our customers say they are the best wood pellet they have ever used.
Fall 2010 Update
September 20, 2010
Another heating season is upon us. We’ve had a busy summer. After making grass pellets for a couple of years, we felt that some changes would make our mill more efficient. We have been working on our equipment, from the grinding of the hay through the delivery of the pellets to the bin. We have also made big improvements in our dust control system.
We’ve been very pleased with farmer’s response to bringing us the low moisture, weedy material that we need to make a good heating pellet.
We also are going to be experimenting with canola and soybean stubble.
We are working with Dr. Cherney at Cornell University, assisting him in his study of different kinds of cellulose; from soil sampling through the burn and stack emissions. Click here to see our original post about this.
FYI–The NYC watershed project has expanded. Check out all that is happening on their website.
In her garden, May is excited to be using the grass pellets to mix with our heavy soil. Since the weed seeds have been heated out in the processing; we have been sprinkling a few around flowers and the pellets expand about 4 times into great mulch, as they absorb moisture.
Not to be outdone, Mike laid his seed potatoes out in a row and poured on grass pellets, threw a little straw over them and easily uncovered and picked up a nice crop of potatoes this fall.
Our grass pellets are still selling at $225.00/ton or $4.50/40# bag.
We are making kiln dried pine pellets for horse bedding. Cat owners and animal shelters have discovered them and are using them for an all natural, compost able cat litter. These also sell at $225.00/ton or $4.50/40# bag.
We are still carrying the excellent quality Curran wood pellets, manufactured in N.Y. State , for the owners of stoves that have difficulty with the extra ash of grass pellets. These are lab and customer tested to be the lowest ash, highest BTU pellet available in the area. Selling for $ 250.00/ton or $5.00/40# bag.
Please notice that all our pellets are the same price by the ton/bag.
February 2010 Wood Pellet Update
February 25, 2010
We have obtained another source of wood pellets to add to our line. Our customers that have stoves not compatible with grass pellets, have reported these as the “highest BTU, lowest ash, cleanest burning pellets” that they have used. We are selling these at $ 5.00 for a 40 lb. bag.
The Catskill Grass Bio-Energy Project
February 6, 2010
Enviro Energy LLC is pleased to support, and participate in, the Catskill Grass Bio-Energy Project, formerly known as the Delaware County Grass Bio-Energy Project, developed by the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Delaware County in partnership with the Catskill Watershed Corporation, the Delaware County Department of Economic Development, and Cornell University.
In an effort facilitate the development of a local grass bio-energy system, this distinguished group is developing a “production to consumption” grass bio-energy pilot project. The basics of this program are as follows:
- To work with farmers to produce and test grass biomass feedstock suitable for combustion purposes. This is not hard, but requires some different management techniques.
- To work with local grass biomass processors, in particular EnviroEnergy LLC of Franklin NY to produce and test grass biomass pellets
- To test and demonstrate bulk delivery and on site handling of grass pellets
- To install, research, and demonstrate residential and small business/municipality scale combustion technologies (pellet stoves and outdoor boilers) that are known to work with grass pellets. This will include a variety of technologies as they emerge in the next 3 years.
Please Click Here to open the The Delaware County Grass Bio-Energy Project Fact Sheet provided by the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Delaware County.
Please Click here to go to the Cornell University Cooperative Extension of Delaware County website.
Happy Holidays and Winter Update
December 21, 2009
A Merry Christmas and Healthy, Prosperous, and WARM New Year to all the folks who worked with us, this first year, in our quest to provide an alternative heating source from abandoned farmer’s fields.
We also want to remind folks that we are selling grass pellets right here at the mill, well under the price of wood pellets from retail stores. This year we are also selling kiln dried pine pellets for horse bedding at the same low price. Some are buying these wood pellets for burning. Both have BTUs similar to hardwood pellets. Either pellet also makes a great bedding for those calf hutches.
Enviro Featured in Daily Star
October 12, 2009
Fresh Pellets drop into the Finishing Machine
Enviro Energy LLC was featured in an article titled “Area homeowners turn to energy alternatives” in October 10th’s edition of the Daily Star.
‘Basically, we buy overgrown fields. We particularly like goldenrod. We buy this from the farmers,’ May Miller said. ‘It gives them a little niche market for crops they couldn’t sell before. They bring it right to us.’
The crops are then converted into grass pellets, which can be burned in pellet stoves. According to the Millers, the stoves are very “green” in addition to being cost-efficient…”
To read the whole article, click here.
2009 Heating Season Updates
October 5, 2009
We are winding down our first full year and we want to thank everyone who helped to get our grass pellet manufacturing business though the many trials of our start-up period.
We appreciate the willingness of so many to try out our completely new product and get back to us with the results, as we struggled with the unknowns and many changes to our equipment and processes.
Our latest product, Barley Pellets, were produced a little late in the season but we were gratified with the feedback and feel they will be even more successful when used earlier in the year.
We are ready to start off a new year with a bang and introduce some new products so keep checking our isite for info and details!
We are excited that we recently found a source of wood so we now can furnish those persnickety stoves that didn’t like the small amount of extra ash from the grass [weed] pellets.
We have also been experimenting with using the grass pellets in our outdoor flower garden. When mixed with our heavy clay type soil and moistened, it is like a miracle – The pellets expand 5 to 6 times their original size and a small amount will loosen the soil amazingly. The weed seeds have all been destroyed in the pelleting process. Also a few pellets sprinkled around a plant on top of the ground makes a great mulch.
And now for horse bedding. We have acquired kiln dried pine and are making pellets for horse stalls. It is light colored and smells so nice!
Our 2009/2010 Heating Season Prices are as follows:
Grass pellets – $ 4.50/40# bag or $225/ton
Soft wood heating pellets – $ 5.00/40# bag or $235/ton
Dry kiln horse bedding pellets-$ 4.50/40# bag or $225/ton