A new North Carolina solar installation, covering five acres in Person County, features row upon row of ground-mounted solar panels - 3,420 in all – angled toward the sun and fully visible from U.S. Highway 501.

The surprise is not the panels, which will generate 847 megawatt-hours per year and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 600 tons annually, but the sheep grazing alongside them, keeping the grass trim without fossil-fuels in what is increasingly becoming a “best practice” in landscaping circles.