Petrus Langenhoven is leading a farmer-to-farmer peppermint tour to the Pacific Northwest from June 27 to July 1, 2022. Indiana mint farmers, ANR Extension Educators, an Extension specialist, and HLA graduate student will be traveling to Washington State and Oregon to visit growers, researchers, and industry partners. They will visit growers around Yakima and Sunnyside…Read more about Petrus Langenhoven to Lead Farmer-to-Farmer Peppermint Tour of the Pacific Northwest[Read More]
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]