Student volunteers of the Hawkeye Student Garden and UI Environmental Coalition moved the greenhouse to its winter location on the garden site during the week of October 12, 2009.  

Students used a system of manual labor and pulleys to accomplish the move. The team leader was Adam Perkins, former BLS student worker and current Hawkeye Garden manager.The following YouTube video clips show the moving of the greenhouse and team huddle celebration after the move.

The new location will allow for late fall and winter crops to be planted and supplied to the Iowa Memorial Union Food Service.  The garden has been producing a variety of spring and summer produce that the students provided to the food service for inclusion in meals served to UI students, faculty and staff at the IMU. 

This is the first year the UI Environmental Coalition maintained a commercial-size operation on the 1/3rd acre plot on the Hawkeye Campus. The greenhouse was installed in April 2009 and was planted with a variety of tomatoes. Compost from pre-consumer food waste was applied to the garden to prepare and fertilize the soil, creating a full circle of on-campus, locally grown produce using organic methods of gardening.  President Sally Mason helped to dedicate the garden and greenhouse during Earth Week on April 23, 2009 (photo above).   Since that time the garden has been maintained by a group of volunteer students who provide vegetables and produce to the IMU Food Services twice a week.  Produce in August included the following:  yellow squash, yellow onions, red onions, roma tomatoes, zuchinni, yukon potatoes, green beans and cucumbers.