In the fall of 2016, the Cremers received a $6,000 TVA Energy for Farms Grant from Southwestern NC RC&D Council to install a solar PV system for use on their farm.

outhwestern NC RC&D assisted the Swartzs in getting a $6,000 TVA Energy for Farms Grant that would help pay for the cost of a greenhouse kit as well as a geothermal heat exchange system that would help to reduce energy costs.

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.