By Sheryl Swingley—
MUNCIE, IN—“Sustainable Land Management on Ground Mounted Solar Projects” is the title of the League of Women Voters of Muncie-Delaware County’s program to celebrate Earth Day 2026 at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 25, at the Kennedy Branch Library.
The program is free and open to the public.
The guest speaker will be Breanna Reed, the owner and operator of Bee-Ewe-tiful Farms in Walkerton, Indiana. Reed’s specialty is managing sheep on solar fields, and she is an advocate for dual-use solar at the local and state levels.
In the summer of 2023, Reed attended a solar grazing workshop hosted by the Indiana Sheep Association. Afterward, she found local solar arrays that needed vegetation management. Instead of mowing the fields, the owners and operators of the solar fields contracted with her for her sheep to graze under the solar panels.
Reed says this cooperative relationship has saved her family farm.
Reed is a member of the American Solar Grazing Association, Indiana Farmers Union and board member for the Indiana Sheep Association.
She participated in the German Aspen Institute’s 2025 policy forum on renewable energy and agriculture. She attended the 2025 Lamb Summit hosted by the American Lamb Board in Idaho.
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