Sol Orchard installed this one-megawatt solar panel project for California’s Victor Valley College. Imagine a crop without worries of labor, pests, rain during harvest, and rising fertilizer costs. In the near future, there’s potential for such a crop, and it’s one that most growers could produce with little impact on their current horticultural practices and commodities. By farming the sun, growers may soon produce and sell electricity to utility companies. Nearly every grower has a corner or piece of ground with poor soil, poor drainage, a rock bar, or something that’s wrong with it, said Jeff Brothers, president of Sol […]