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Spotlight on
Marie Audet is a memb
Farm’s fourth-generatio
Bridport. The Audets p
their ability to create a
consistent environmen
which Marie says are “c
Marie explains that her
of her cows is to give th
able, stress-free, and pr
ment so they can really
to be milked on a regu
cows will walk into the
their own. People com
they’re always surprise
walk in on their own, n
in a straight line. They
part of their routine, an
them.”
With 1,500 fully matur
younger calves, the farm
considerable amount o
the help of renewable e
Blue Spruce Farm conv
into energy, which they
refer to as “cow power.”
generated from the ma
powers the farm, but h
in the surrounding com
this, the manure gets fu
crete in-ground anaero
it is heated—causing m
rise to the top, which t
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