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Planting Pollinator Gardens At Solar Farms

Strata Solar

In addition to providing a renewable source of energy, the space in and around solar farms has the potential to be suitable habitat for pollinators such as bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects.  Public Radio East's Mac McKee speaks the vegetation construction manager with Strata Solar of Raleigh Kathyrn Parker about their effort to place native pollen producing plants at each of their solar sites.