Can farmland thrive with solar? This Virginia nonprofit is finding out.

Published on October 14, 2025

More than a decade ago, residents of Loudoun County, Virginia, banded together to buy up treasured open space before it became a strip mall and housing development, donating the land to the Piedmont Environmental Council instead. The nonprofit has maintained it as a unique blend of cattle pasture, a nature preserve,…

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