US (OH): Movable greenhouse for Miami University Food Institute
But more locally, they’ve collaborated with The Institute for Food at Miami University to build a movable greenhouse.
“In order to extend the growing season for the farm, we’re building a movable greenhouse,” said Prasidh Arora, a second-year student and the project’s manager.
Another reason the Institute wants a movable greenhouse over a typical stationary one is that, instead of buying multiple greenhouses, a system that would make the “pre-existing” base of the greenhouse movable was much more economical, Arora said.
Arora had members of his team, like first-year student Evan Beckmeyer, to help him.
“Working on this greenhouse has been a learning process, but it’s been fun. I’d do it again,” said Beckmeyer. “I’ve been able to do a lot of SketchUp [a 3-D modeling software], trying to visualize the greenhouse as well as we can.”
While their research and the design of the greenhouse are done for now, Arora and the rest of the project team still have to go out and buy all the materials they need — estimated to cost over $1,000 — as well spend a day at the farm building the movable greenhouse.
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