Harvest Public Media interviews Extension’s Calderwood on solar farming
Harvest Public Media interviewed Lily Calderwood, a wild blueberry specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and a UMaine assistant professor of horticulture, on the effects of solar panels placed over an established field of wild blueberries. Researchers are trying to identify ways in which land can be used to simultaneously grow food and farm solar energy. Calderwood said the blueberry plants look healthy but have more leaves and are producing less blueberries. Several other radio affiliates shared the report, including Kansas Public Radio, Northern Public Radio and Iowa Public Radio.