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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!

Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center - 2023 End of Year Campaign - Byron Kominek
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Come join us for our end of season celebration!

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Contact info@coagrivoltaic.org
for more information

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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. 

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Photo by: Longmont Leader

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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

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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

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2022 Artist on the Farm: Jeff Goldberg

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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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Our partners

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Our commercial subscribers

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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.

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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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