Liz Maynard, Ashley Adair, and Steve Meyers partnered with Northwest Region educators Becca Koetz, Marty Huseman and Nikky Witkowski for the Nov. 6 Small Farm Equipment Demonstration Day at Pinney Purdue Ag Center. Demos included flame weeding, bed preparation with BCS implements including vertical plow and power harrow, transplanting with paperpot transplanter, and winterizing small…Read more about Local Farmers and Educators Connect at Pinney Purdue’s Small Farm Equipment Event[Read More]
Faculty and staff are encouraged to share a Spring 2027 HLA Extension internship opportunity with undergraduate students interested in gaining hands-on experience in horticulture, communications, education and outreach. The intern will work alongside Purdue HLA Extension specialists and educators to create research-based resources and programs for audiences across Indiana. Projects may include developing graphics and…Read more about HLA Extension Internship Offers Hands-On Experience for Undergraduates[Read More]
The Purdue Student Farm, managed by the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, is more than a place where students learn to grow vegetables. This year it also became a classroom for Indiana’s produce industry. The farm served as the real-world setting for a new four-part video series from Safe Produce Indiana that walks growers through…Read more about Purdue Student Farm Helps Create a New Food Safety Resource for Indiana Growers[Read More]
Dr. Ariana Torres, associate professor in Horticulture and Landscape Architecture and Agricultural Economics, presented at the EQUIP Exposition in Louisville, Kentucky, on October 22. She showed SodCalculator, a new module of Purdue’s free HortCalculator tool built with the Purdue Sod Project. It helps sod growers compare costs, breakeven prices and returns across their production choices.
Peter Hirst, along with colleagues Brian Schilling, Wil Brown-Grimm and Jay Young hosted 8 classes of 3rd graders from West Lafayette Elementary School at the Purdue Meigs farm on Oct 15-16. The students learned about apples, corn, soybeans, food and the environment. They tasted apples. Some good. Some “interesting”. They learned about sugars and acids….Read more about Peter Hirst hosted Third Graders at Meigs[Read More]
On October 28, Dr. Ariana Torres led an Indiana Grown webinar on HortCalculator, Purdue’s free financial tool for specialty crop growers. She used case studies of a high-tunnel spinach operation and an Indiana sod farm to show how growers can check whether an investment will pay before they make it. The approach comes from her…Read more about Ariana Torres led Indiana Grown Webinar on HortCalculator[Read More]
Since 2010, the Purdue Student Farm has given students a place to learn by doing. Founded by Dr. Steve Hallett and a group of undergraduates, the farm started operations at the new Cherry Lane location in 2017, where long-cropped corn and soybean ground has become a diversified vegetable farm with four high tunnels, six rotational…Read more about The Purdue Student Farm: A Partner for Purdue Extension[Read More]
Liz Maynard, Ashley Adair, and Steve Meyers will participate in the Small Farm Equipment Demo 12:00 to 4:00p.m. Central Time on November 6 at the Pinney Purdue Ag Center. A program on popcorn for small farms and gardens will follow, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Central Time. Preregister online for each program: Small Farm Equipment…Read more about HLA Extension Specialists to participate in Small Farm Equipment Demo.[Read More]
Stephen Meyers was the guest on the newest edition of the Hoosier Ag Today Your Farm podcast hosted by Greg Allen. The episode was recorded and released last week. To listen, visit Pumpkin Production Requires Year-Round Planning | Hoosier Ag Today. Your Farm is one of the Hoosier Ag Today programs produced in collaboration with…Read more about ICYMI: Meyers talks pumpkins with Hoosier Ag Today[Read More]