On Thursday, June 2, Lori Hoagland, Karen Mitchell with Nathan Shoaf (Purdue Extension/Urban Agriculture Program) partnered with SWCD’s Urban Soil Health Director, Elli Blaine, to host the “Get the Dirt: Urban Soil Health Conference” for over 100 participants. The conference was followed by a farm tour and dinner at Maple Hill Farm in West Point.
Ariana Torres and coauthors published a paper titled “Investigating Drivers of Native Plant Production in the United States Green Industry”. Citation: Rihn, A.L.; Knuth, M.J.; Peterson, B.J.; Torres, A.P.; Campbell, J.H.; Boyer, C.R.; Palma, M.A.; Khachatryan, H. Investigating Drivers of Native Plant Production in the United States Green Industry. Sustainability 2022, 14, 6774. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14116774
Janna Beckerman and Austin Pearson are special guests for this episode. They talked about spring disease management and frost/freeze guidance. Visit https://anchor.fm/strawberrychat to listen to this and previous episodes Strawberry Chat is a virtual program about strawberry production at small and diversified farms in Indiana. This program is hosted by Wenjing Guan and Miranda Purcell….Read more about Strawberry Chat Episode 3[Read More]
More detailed information later when these start to come together: June 23rd Mint Field Day July 21st Purdue Fruit, Veg & Hemp Field Day July 29th Small Farm Education Field Day
