Thank you for taking me to your community and enabling me to see this. It was a great example of how things can work so well together.
We met. You introduced me to people who were sheep farmers, who were saying that to be able to grow their herd, they needed more land, but they couldn't afford to buy all that extra land. Then there was this opportunity. There was a solar farm nearby that needed to maintain its lands, so the sheep farmers were able to expand their herd by using these lands from this solar farm. It was actually a source of money for them to be able to do this, and it was a great win for the solar farm as well, because, as I learned, sheep don't gnaw through any of the wiring or anything like that. They get closer to the posts around it.
I also learned about how this was creating good jobs in small rural communities. People don't have to leave the community they're in. They were there, working on a solar farm and staying in this rural community so that they could be close to their home farming communities. It was a really nice example of how we could bring the two together, creating renewable energy while farming, and supporting and building the strengths of rural communities.