Your heart can skip a happy beat just seeing the farms and farmland for sale around Asheville. (You may have 
surmised when reading my series on Asheville’s sustainable farms.) Now, Mountain Valleys Resource Conservation and Development, (MVRCD) a non-profit that has managed resource conservation and economic development projects in western North Carolina since 1976, has “heart-warming" news.
MVRCD has announced that it is accepting applications for its Green Energy Program. Western North Carolina farmers interested in generating renewable energy on their farms can apply.
This could be of special value given what Green Energy Grants could represent for the community and for those who supply locally-grown and harvested food here in the Asheville and WNC area! The benefits go beyond the 40 percent cost-share funding for their approved projects. According to Maggie Cramer over at ASAP, " The maximum grant amount is $8,000.
The goal is to reduce energy expenses and increases farm income by selling generated power to the electric grid, preserving farms, reducing carbon emissions, stimulating economic development, and conserving natural resources….Twenty-one systems have already been installed through the ‘Renewable Energy for Farms’ project. Most systems are photovoltaic (solar), but wind and micro-hydroelectric projects are also accepted."
More information and application is available at:
http://www.mountainvalleysrcd.org/7.html
More WNC Projects: Stream Restoration, Wind for Schools Program, Forest Products Grant
http://www.mountainvalleysrcd.org/3.html
News from the Land Lady at Asheville 1031- The Eco-Steward Firm. Asheville, NC 2012 ©Renewable Energy for Asheville Area Farms.
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