Silicon Ranch’s Regenerative Energy® team designs and manages utility scale solar power plants with nature in mind.
By co-locating solar energy production and regenerative agriculture, we create valuable environmental, social, and economic outcomes that are far beyond the impacts that a solar facility alone can produce. We team up with regenerative ranchers, thought-leaders, non-profits, and communities to deliver Regenerative Energy® and measure, verify, and report outcomes.
Our Core Team
How do we know that our innovative approach drives positive outcomes?
Because we measure our work and verify and report our results. Regenerative Energy® is science-led and data-driven. We work closely with market-leading third parties to capture outcomes and strive toward continuous improvement. We team up with regenerative ranchers, thought-leaders, non-profits, and communities that are passionate about fostering regenerative systems.
Our Land Managers and Producers
Cabriejo Ranch
The Cabriejo Ranch family, led by accredited Savory Holistic Management Professionals Trent and Rueben Hendricks, holistically manages the land at Silicon Ranch’s Regenerative Energy® projects in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas. They implement the Savory Institute’s Ecological Outcome Verification methodology on select projects to track biodiversity, soil, and ecosystem outcomes.
White Oak Pastures
The White Oak Pastures crew, led by Land Steward, Herdsman, and Savory Holistic Management Professional Will Harris, is pushing the innovation envelope at Silicon Ranch’s Georgia solar farms while conducting Ecological Verified Outcome evaluations on the land they manage to track and measure outcomes.
Appalachian Land Design
The Appalachian Land Design team, led by agriculture and plant scientist Tyler Menne, is bringing a passion for innovation, hard work, and adorable sheep to bear as they regeneratively manage the land at our Volkswagen Chattanooga solar farm, after nine years of maintaining it conventionally. Tyler’s recognition that everything comes full circle in this world has a strong influence on his enthusiasm for and approach to the work.
Tall Oaks Farm and Land Management LLC
Trey Lawrence, a Jackson, Tennessee native, heads up Tall Oaks Farm and Land Management LLC. His extensive experience with and love of both animals and farm management led him to Silicon Ranch and Regenerative Energy®. His company provides conventional and regenerative land management services at select projects in the West Tennessee region, including holistic planned grazing and other non-electrical operations and maintenance tasks. In his words, this work is “what he feels like he’s supposed to be doing.”
Our Validators
Savory Institute
Savory Institute brings its Land to Market Ecological Outcome Verification protocol to Regenerative Energy®, through which both our land and the grass-fed meats produced on our land can be verified as ‘regenerative’.
Restore the Earth Foundation
Led by P.J. Marshall, Executive Director of Restore the Earth Foundation, and Ed Pinero, President of EcoMetrics LLC, the Restore the Earth team provides the necessary expertise to track, assess, and capture the full value of environmental, social, and economic impacts of Regenerative Energy® projects using the custom-designed Regenerative Energy® EcoMetrics methodology.
To learn more about our partnerships and how you can become involved, please fill out our contact form to connect with a member of Silicon Ranch’s Regenerative Energy® team.
Local Community Members
Engagement of local communities allows projects to be conceived and delivered in a way that maximizes value to the local community and also is necessary to measure a project’s social return on investment. Hear a firsthand account of community impact from Early County leaders who have seen the positive effects of the Bancroft Station Solar Farm—Silicon Ranch’s Regenerative Energy® Center of Excellence.
Local Community Members
Engagement of local communities allows projects to be conceived and delivered in a way that maximizes value to the local community and also is necessary to measure a project’s social return on investment. Hear a firsthand account of community impact from Earl County leaders who have seen the positive effects of their local Bancroft Station Solar Farm—a Silicon Ranch solar farm that is a Regenerative Energy® site.
