Tonight's brief but spectacular features Byron Komenek, who's returned to his family's

Colorado farm with a bold idea, grow crops and harvest solar energy. At Jack's Solar Garden,

Byron has transformed hay fields into a thriving hub, demonstrating how farming and clean energy

can grow side by side.

Climate change is happening.

I don't really see a way that we can stop it.

So we need to learn to adapt to it.

Agrovoltaics is a way to help agriculture adapt to our hotter temperatures.

Continuing to do the same type of agriculture 20 years from now as we did back in the 80s

and prior was not going to work because it's going to be too hot for a lot of crops.

We're already seeing that on our farm of my hay grass browning earlier.

I'm getting less production out of it and that's

happening with plenty of other people too. When I moved to the farm in 2016 I

didn't really have a lot of connection to it. Jack was my grandfather. Never met the

fella. Born in 1895 he was a carpenter the first half of his life, a farmer the

second half. He had a 120-acre farm in Westminster in Colorado, where

my mother grew up. I did five years with USA. In Zambia, a couple years, in Mozambique. I wanted to

see what it would be like to do something in my own culture. The farm was there with nobody living on it

for at least eight years and learned about how

we were losing money hanging the fields.

It wasn't anything that was looking towards the future of what our farm could be for

our family.

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