Krishna Nemali and others hosted a tour for 19 visitors that included ag advisory members and farmers from Hungary to showcase HLA’s Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) program. This included a short presentation about CEA faculty and research, teaching, and extension activities and several graduate and undergraduate students shared research activities. The group visited the greenhouses[Read More…]
Strawberry Chat is a virtual discussion about strawberry production at small and diversified farms in Indiana and neighboring states. Drs. Wenjing Guan and Miranda Purcell are the program’s hosts. We invite guests to discuss various topics in strawberry production. We post the discussion as a podcast. The project has six episodes now. You can access[Read More…]
John Orick, Karen Mitchell, and Pam Fisher set up the Purdue Extension Master Gardener Plant Info to Go Booth at the Indiana State Fairgrounds on July 27. Purdue Extension Master Gardener volunteers will staff the booth to answer gardening and lawn care questions and to help promote the program. The booth, located in the Ag/Hort[Read More…]
Many thanks to Christian Charlson and Momin Mirza who worked this summer at Pinney Purdue as field research assistants with Liz Maynard and are now moving on to fall activities. Christian will continue as a 3rd year Environmental Engineering major in Purdue’s ABE. Momin has started a master’s degree in analytics and modeling at Valparaiso University[Read More…]