Turning waste into fuel: Bourbon industry offers new path for renewable energy

By Jordan Strickler
Published on Nov. 12, 2024

University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment researchers are turning one of the state’s largest and fastest-growing industries into an unlikely renewable energy source.  

Distilleries finding “bourbon shrooms” profitable for spent grains

By Jordan Strickler
Published on Nov. 28, 2022

Mushrooms and distilleries have quite a bit in common thanks to students at the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment. With funding from the UK Office of Sustainability, a group in the Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, and the Department of Horticulture, is looking for ways to raise fungi using