But farming and solar energy can often coexist, as they do at the Silicon Ranch site in Lee County, Georgia. Lisa Davis, ...

Solar farms can offer them food and shelter by providing a diverse mix of native plants. Such plants can also decrease erosion, nourish the soil and store planet-warming carbon.

Sheep are being used to help maintain a solar farm 02:24. Hundreds of sheep are hard at work this spring in central Minnesota — not on a farm, but beneath solar panels.