** May 31, Governor Goes on Record In Support of Farm Power **

** Capital Press and Northwest Business Monthly Run Feature Articles on Farm Power **

Farm Power is a Skagit County, Washington company founded to protect farmers and farmland by producing energy from cow manure. We use a proven, commercialized techonology called a manure digester to harvest methane gas from manure. We burn the methane to create electricity, while sending the processed manure back to the farmers as an organic fertilizer now free of pathogens and odor. See our page on digester operations for more details.

Farm Power was founded by brothers Kevin and Daryl Maas. We both grew up in Skagit County and enjoyed the rural heritage that comes with living in the western Washington. We believe that in order to maintain Skagit County's unique balance between economic growth and outdoor quality of life, we must make help keep farming both economically profitable and environmentally sustainable.

Our goal is to build three to five manure digesters that will serve as many Skagit County dairy farms as possible. Expansion into Whatcom and Snohomish County is possible. Most western Washington dairy farms are too small to build their own digesters and successfully market the products. That's where we come in. Farm Power will work with groups of dairy farmers to design regional digesters that serve multiple farms. We will design the project, raise the funds to make it happen, and operate the digester to make it profitable. We do not ask for any money from the farmers.

We've designed Farm Power with community in mind. See our links page to visit the sites of some of our partners such as Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland and Puget Sound Energy.

You can reach Kevin and Daryl at (360) 424-4519 or FarmPowerNW@gmail.com