Lee Walston (left) a landscape ecologist, with students during a plant survey at the Ramsey Renewable Station in Ramsey, Minnesota. — ©2024 The New York Times Company
IT’s not your average solar farm. Amid the meadow of wildflowers swaying in the breeze, bursts of purple, pink, yellow and white scatter through the landscape beneath shimmering glass panels.
Insects, bees and butterflies like the monarch flutter among the blossoms.
