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University of Iowa rooftop greenhouse gets an upgrade

Thanks to the work of one University of Iowa Ph.D. student, the greenhouse on top of the University of Iowa’s Biology Building is getting a much-needed update.

The greenhouse’s new hydroponic watering system will allow for larger plants and a larger variety of produce for the UI Gardeners who help run the greenhouse.

UI graduate student Krista Osadchuk has been developing a system with her friend Chad Treloar that allows plants to be watered and given nutrients without soil, by inserting all the necessary nutrients right into the water source.

“We work together to kind of come up with the design. The one up on the greenhouse is one that we kind of built together,” Osadchuk said. “This is the third installment of the design we have right now. Every time we build a system we think about the things we hated about the last one so this is the best one we’ve built.”

Jacob Simpson and Sophia Coker Gunnink, co-presidents of the UI Gardeners, will be in charge of using this new system, which they say is an improvement to the previous version that was in place at the greenhouse until a month ago.

Read more at The Daily Iowan
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