Christopher Toy, PhD Candidate at Colorado State University, has been working at Jack's Solar Garden for three seasons learning about how the single-axis tracking solar array impacts ecosystems services in a grassland beneath the solar panels. This video has Christopher describing his research and his findings.

Jack’s Solar Garden is a family owned social enterprise doing more with our family farm for the betterment of our community. Through our partnerships with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Colorado State University, and the University of Arizona, Jack’s Solar Garden will put valuable research into the public sphere on co-locating solar panels with agriculture – called agrivoltaics. Partnering with Sprout City Farms will enable Jack’s Solar Garden to begin cultivating crops to put back into our community while training young farmers on agrivoltaic techniques. As the first, but not last, of our kind, Jack’s Solar Garden will educate the next generation through regular school tours under our solar panels. Farmers, government officials, and the public will be invited to tour our premises to help disseminate the possibilities agrivoltaics offers to our society. With the innovativeness and openness we offer, we hope to inspire our community to support local farmers as they embark on creative paths to better our community with locally produced foods and solar power.

Jack's Solar Garden's 2022 season caught on film by documentarian Chad Weber of Longmont, Colorado. Hear from our people, see the work that has been done, decide how the future of solar development on America's farmland. MB01GQ6NVZ2N6OH MB017E1UZT9GIOR MB01ODNYM16FW2W MB01NRX82HBZ0NB

This video was made by the Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center to showcase the microclimatic benefits of growing vegetables within a solar array - i.e. an agrivoltaic system. The research findings described are ranges found by research partners at Jack's Solar Garden, including the Colorado State University and the University of Arizona.

This video was made by the Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center to showcase the microclimatic benefits to people working and cattle grazing within a solar array - i.e. an agrivoltaic system.

Matthew Sturchio, PhD student at Colorado State University, explains research results from having studied grassland ecology at Jack's Solar Garden in Boulder County, Colorado.

By Chad Weber