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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #105 Solar Grazing at Shaker Village
Description: In a field a few miles southwest of the city of Lexington in Kentucky, a sheep is quietly grazing in the shade. This is a very special sheep. It has been carefully selected from a rare breed to control the vegetation at Kentucky’s largest solar farm.
The practice is known as Solar Grazing, an environmentally friendly and incredibly cost effective solution to what would otherwise involve slow and back-breaking manual labour.
How this sheep got to be in this place at this time is a story that began 300 years ago and thousands of miles aw...