Celina Gomez gave a talk on Tuesday at the “Workshop on Advancing Controlled Environment Agriculture on Land and in Space in the Next 20 Years” co-organized by the USDA, DOE, and NASA. Her talk was focused on describing breeding priorities to produce compact fruiting vegetables indoors.
This week Dr. Kathryn Orvis and Vicki Stirm hosted sessions for the 4-H Round Up. There were fourteen students (from various counties in Indiana), two chaperones, and one Youth Ambassador. The session was titled “Inside Out Plants,” which included a scavenger hunt in the Jules Janick Horticulture Garden, followed by flower dissections in the classroom.
Peter Hirst was in Washington DC last week to give a presentation during the reporting on the project “Cultural Restoration in Post-Conflict Northern Iraq”. He was joined with colleagues from Purdue, IU, Notre Dame, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, and partners from the University of Duhok in Kurdistan Iraq. He also updated staff from…Read more about Peter Hirst Presented in Washington DC[Read More]
Ashley Adair, Lori Hoagland, and Liz Maynard traveled with Indiana Urban Soil Health and NRCS staff to Frith Farm in Scarborough, ME last week. Daniel Mays, owner of Frith Farm, hosted the group for a no-till organic vegetable workshop on June 15th. Frith Farm emphasizes soil health in all its production practices, including minimizing tillage,…Read more about HLA Faculty and Specialists Visit to Frith Farm in Maine[Read More]
Krishna Nemali and Sangrak Son (Ph.D. student in Nemali’s lab) are continuing their outreach and engagement work at Otterbein Elementary School, Indiana. The goal of their project is to shift the attitudes in schoolchildren towards healthy eating by providing both hands on and curriculum-based training. They installed indoor hydroponic systems to enable schoolchildren produce leafy…Read more about Krishna Nemali Continues Outreach in Otterbein[Read More]
Peter Hirst and Miranda Purcell led ‘Agriculture in New Zealand’ Study Abroad trip with 16 students from May 14-28th. We visited vegetable farms, a dairy cattle farm, a sheep operation, a kiwifruit orchard, apple orchard, blueberry orchard, apple processing facility, a vineyard & winery along with many cultural and tourist attractions, such as Rangitoto Island,…Read more about Peter Hirst and Miranda Purcell Led New Zealand Study Abroad Trip[Read More]
Congratulations to Rachael Herring (LA major/HORT minor) who was selected into the 2023 Young Leaders Scholarship Program from the Mid America CropLife Association. The YLSP is “designed to expose future agriculturalists to the crop protection industry and potential career opportunities.”