Strawberries, peppers to take root at vast greenhouse under construction in North Dakota
The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation is building a $26 million greenhouse complex that will use natural gas now being flared to heat the complex and provide carbon dioxide, which plants need to grow. The tribe hopes this will be the first of several massive greenhouses.
Written By: Patrick Springer
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Native Green Grow is a 412,000-square-foot greenhouse complex — equal to seven football fields — under construction near Parshall, N.D., on the Fort Berthold reservation. Submitted rendering
NEW TOWN, N.D. — The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation on North Dakota’s Fort Berthold Indian Reservation is launching a sprawling $26 million greenhouse produce-growing initiative that will occupy an area equal to seven football fields.