Simon Barton’s sons Sam and Jeremy prepare to move cattle to a new paddock.Credit: Rhett Wyman When people find out Gayle Lee has solar panels on her land, they often bring up their worries about renewable energy destroying good farming country.
But at her property in Glenrowan in northern Victoria, the sheep run happily amid the rows of solar panels. It’s not only possible, it’s beneficial.
“People quite often say to us, ‘It’s OK to have solar panels, but what are we going to eat?’” Lee says. “They are quite surprised when we talk about the sheep running under the panel.”The […]
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