Ball State University students build mobile greenhouse prototype

The greenhouse will cultivate plant starts, which will grown at Butler University's Ecology Farm and sold to local CSAs.


MUNCIE, IND. —  Ball State University students have completed the design and construction of what is being called the first nontoxic, fully automated, mobile greenhouse for organic urban farming.

"This is a prototype that lends itself to the sort of transient nature of the urban farm, which … is moving toward the mainstream," says Timothy Gray, associate professor of architecture.

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