Solar energy produced in the heart of Colorado
In Boulder County, off of North 95th St, 3,276 solar panels creates a 1.2 MW community solar garden – enough to power over 300 homes. Jack’s Solar Garden is a national model for governments, solar developers, and farmers for how to produce renewable energy while continuing agricultural production via agrivoltaics.
Jack's Solar Garden is nationally significant
Agrivoltaics is the co-location of agriculture and solar energy infrastructure whereby the microclimates created by the solar panels provide benefits to the vegetation or animals beneath and around them. Jack's Solar Garden is the country's premier site for agrivoltaics and the most visit solar array in the USA! Come visit us to learn more about solar energy and how to couple it with agriculture!
Come Tour Jack's Solar Garden with the Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center:
Connecting our Community to Clean Energy and Local Food
Jack's Solar Garden's nonprofit, the Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center (a nonprofit project of the Colorado Nonprofit Development Center), connects students and community members to clean energy, local food, and responsible land use management through agrivoltaics. Through on-site tours of Jack's Solar Garden, the Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center will teach and inspire you about how our society can improve our land use management practices by combining two known practices - agriculture + solar energy.
Photo by: Longmont Leader
Photo by: Jeff Goldberg
We've had over a 4,000 people visit Jack's Solar Garden to date! Visitors see for themselves how the microclimates created by our single-axis tracking solar panels impact the vegetation and people working beneath them.
We offer free tours to Colorado-based government officials who can learn about our work with Boulder County to change their Land Use Code and how local regulations in the City and County of Boulder supported the development of Jack's Solar Garden.
Welcome our 2024 Artist on the Farm:
Alexandra Rose
Alexandra is an artist, farmer, and earth steward who has lived in Fort Collins since 2000. She now enjoys thriving in the area with an amazing family made up of her husband, daughter, & pup. Her work and joy in this world focuses around art, nature-based education, cultivating natural spaces, fostering the connection with our own creative self and our community, and stewarding her beautiful family. At any given moment, you may find her exploring outdoors, creating art, or learning instruments, languages, & new art skills.
Alexandra has gained diverse experience as an administrative program coordinator, integrative wellness program coordinator, and Operations Manager/farm hand on a local CSA produce farms. She aided in running an urban teaching farm while developing and managing a volunteer program with over 200 volunteers. After discovering a passion for nature-based education, she created, implemented, and instructed a nature-based early education program. As an avid volunteer, Alexandra assisted with farm ventures and experiential education groups focused on art expression. All the while, she honed her artistic skills through a variety of art forms such as drawing, painting, handcrafts, metal work, jewelry, dried flower art, and upcycled wearable art. She is currently the creator and owner of Alexandra’s Rose LLC and Unalii Creations in addition to co-founding Sister Circle and the Fourfold Sisterhood LLC.
2023 Artist on Farm: Jaime Hispa
2022 Artist on the Farm: Jeff Goldberg
2021 Artist on the Farm: Michelle Bernier
Part solar farm, part garden, and a whole lot more
Researchers are partnering with Jack’s Solar Garden to study growing crops underneath and around our solar panels. Audubon Rockies has established a large pollinator habitat around our solar array while Sprout City Farms is cultivating crops under our solar panels. The Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center hosts students, community members, and private groups at our farm for tours and corporate dinners to showcase agrivoltaics.
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Thank you to all our Residential Subscribers
All that Jack's Solar Garden is and will be is only possible through the subscriptions of numerous residential subscribers in Colorado.
Thank you so much to our residential subscribers and I hope each of you come out to our farm each year to see what your support is providing to our community.
Subscribers - always feel free to reach out with questions and requests to visit our farm.
Who is Jack?
Jack Stingerie, my grandfather, purchased our family’s 24-acre farm in Boulder County in 1972. He retired here and farmed hay and alfalfa until he passed away in 1980. Since then, the farm has passed to his daughter and my mother, Eloise Kominek. In 2018, Kurt Kominek, my father, and I founded Jack’s Solar Garden in memory of, and thanks to, Jack for the opportunity to do more with this land for our community.
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