This study investigates solar garden siting decision-making processes to examine why there are currently three solar gardens in Farmington, MN and no solar gardens in Lakeville, MN. As previous environmental justice literature has demonstrated, energy facilities are often distributed unequally across the landscape, placing greater burdens on low-income, minority communities–a siting pattern known as the Path of Least Resistance. With the recent growth of renewable energy across southern Minnesota, there remains limited knowledge on the solar garden siting process, and specifically whether there are any distributional or procedural injustices present in the siting process. Therefore, utilizing a common environmental justice framework, the Path of Least Resistance, we evaluated the political ability of citizens to resist solar garden sitings in order to answer our research questions: Do citizens in Farmington and Lakeville view solar gardens as locally undesirable land uses (LULUs)? And to what extent does differentiated political ability to resist solar garden sitings explain the development of three solar gardens in Farmington, MN and the lack of solar gardens in Lakeville, MN? To address this question, we conducted twenty-five semi-structured interviews with Farmington and Lakeville residents and decision-makers, as well as solar experts to determine the citizens’ sentiments regarding solar gardens and how decision-makers decide where to site solar gardens. Based on patterns identified in the interviews, most Farmington and Lakeville residents do not view solar gardens as undesirable land uses. Additionally, we discovered that decision-makers site solar gardens based on land value and availability and utility company coverage. Finally, we saw no evidence of differentiated political ability to resist solar garden sitings between Farmington and Lakeville, and therefore determined that the siting process for solar gardens does not appear to follow the Path of Least Resistance.