Jack’s Solar Garden
Solar Garden & Agrivoltaics Research
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 enables the cultivation of crops at Jack’s Solar Garden to put food back into our community while training young farmers on agrivoltaic techniques.
As the first, but not last, of our kind, Jack’s Solar Garden is educating the next generation through regular school tours under our solar panels via the Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center. Farmers, government officials, and the public are invited to tour our premises to help disseminate the possibilities agrivoltaics can offer 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. We plan to continue pushing the envelope of what our kind of agrivoltaics is and what other around the world could do to better use land within solar arrays.
