The Farm at Jack’s Solar Garden

Onsite Research

We partnered closely with University of Arizona researchers to meticulously record and analyze data—stay tuned for reports sharing our findings!

Here’s a snapshot of the partners and research projects collaborating at Jack’s. SCF is managing all of the food production on site, including working closely with University of Arizona and managing their plot.

Here’s a snapshot of the partners and research projects who collaborated at Jack’s. SCF managed all of the food production and the majority of the site, including working closely with University of Arizona and managing their research farm plot.

The agrivoltaic farm at Jack’s Solar Garden was a highlighted stop on the AgriSolar Clearinghouse national “Follow the Sun” tour in 2022! Watch this video to learn more about Sprout City & partners’ work at Jack’s!

Trailblazing sustainable agriculture research under solar panels, from 2021-2025 (we closed our farm operations at the end of 2025)

At the Farm at Jack’s Solar Garden in Longmont, for five years Sprout City Farms operated the largest agrivoltaic (agriculture + photovoltaics) research site for vegetable production thus far in the United States!

Alongside research partners, SCF innovated using multi-crop market-farming techniques within an elevated solar array, using the partial shade to protect tender greens from the scorching summer sun while still producing plenty of delicious sun-loving crops like tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers!

By producing food in a life-sized obstacle course, we helped develop methodologies for data collection with crops grown in the research farm plots. We worked with research partners across the country to track the climate-resilient impacts of co-locating solar panels with vegetable production.

Research partners included:

We plan to share our findings widely so that more farms can adopt these practices and harvest both crops and the sun as sources of revenue.

It looks like an ordinary field of solar panels, until you peek underneath to see what’s growing!

Timelapse of the solar array and field work: early July 2021. Many thanks to Chad Weber (http://cwebervideo.com)!