Through a $6,000 TVA Energy for Farms Grant provided by Southwestern NC RC&D Council, the Rosses were able to take down the twelve incandescent lights and replace them with twelve new Highbay LED lights.
Walnut Hollow Ranch
Meadow Cove Farm
Lotus Farm and Garden
Thatchmore Farm
Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
Indigo Bunting Farm
Bluff Mountain Nursery
n 2016, Speight was still heating the seven greenhouses with the original propane heaters that her father had installed after transitioning from wood heat. “They were really unreliable and we were losing several of our crops due to improper heating,” said Speight. Southwestern NC RC&D Council helped to supply Bluff Mountain Nursery with a $6,000 TVA Energy for Farms Grant to install four new propane heaters in the two most important greenhouses in the nursery.