About the Transformation Garden
Just beyond the south end of campus lies the Old Rotation, the historic one-acre plot of row crops that has been a continuous research experiment at Auburn since 1896. Surrounded by the hustle and bustle of contemporary college life, this plot melds the old with the new, connecting the past and present to the future. It’s also home to the College of Agriculture’s Transformation Garden, a classroom and research facility that will reflect the diversity of Alabama’s crop and horticultural industries.
This 16-acre garden includes six vertical farms — shipping containers outfitted as hydroponic farms — and the Old Rotation, the oldest continuous cotton experiment in the world. Construction began on a 1.4-acre children's garden area in 2025.
Once complete, the Transformation Garden will also include a shaded classroom, a greenhouse and aquaponic project, a teaching orchard, a landscape construction work yard, agronomic field crops, a shade garden, a vegetable teaching garden, a pollinator garden, a medicinal garden, an invasive plants garden, rain garden and more.
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