Case Study

This Farm Is My Life And Solar Helps Me Protect It

I was born on this farm in 1958. I have lived here every day since, across three different houses on the same land. This is not just my job. It is my legacy. It is who I am.

Farming has never been easy. Interest rates, input costs, and land prices keep going up. I have spent my life in debt just trying to keep this operation running. And now, with farmland being sold off and split into housing lots, it is harder than ever to hold on.

At first, I was hesitant about solar. I care deeply about the land and what happens to it. But the more I learned, the more I saw that a solar project would not be about giving anything up. It would be about protecting what matters most.

Being involved in a solar project would allow us to lease 300 acres and keep every inch of it. We would still own the land. It would stay in the family. It would stay farm ground.

That income could help us buy more land instead of watching it get carved into lots or sold to developers. It could help keep this operation stable without forcing us to sell pieces of it just to get by. That is the hardest part today—trying to grow something permanent while everything around you is changing.

To me, solar is not a risk. It is a tool that could give our family and our farm a future.

And that is what matters most.

Mark T. – Third Generation Farmer

“That income could help us buy more land instead of watching it get carved into lots or sold to developers. It could help keep this operation stable without forcing us to sell pieces of it just to get by.”