Welcome to Week 11! Can you believe we’ve made it halfway through this program already? I feel like I’ve spent the last two weeks running around like a chicken with its head cut off, and voila- 1/8 of the semester has gone by. I have a love hate relationship with describing time fractionally. It really…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
On Wednesday, September 2, the Purdue Student Farm and the Overbeck Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) Facility hosted Class 30 of the International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA) Produce Industry Leadership Program. The visit opened a full day on campus in which the fellows explored how Purdue faculty are addressing challenges across the fresh produce supply chain…Read more about Produce Industry Leaders Visit the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
Welcome back to school! The student farm is bustling with life again. Being a student farm, we don’t just employ students, but we work with many classes. This week both the small farm experience class and the specialty crop production class headed out to the farm to harvest potatoes. Between the harvests, we ended up…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
Hello Fellow Farmaholics! Welcome to the 8th great week of the CSA. We’ve been in full-fledged harvest mode these past few days. It’s super interesting to witness the transition of tasks as the season progresses. Tasks like seeding new crops, transplanting in seedlings, and weeding all take the back burner as we race to keep…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
Andrew Flachs spoke about food policy and the role of diversified farms in reproducing stable livelihoods with WORT radio (Small, Diversified Farms Should Be The Future), and discussed key lessons from resilient small farmers for building regional economic and ecological safety nets on resilience.org (Feeding the World as if People Mattered: Taking the right lessons…Read more about Andrew Flachs Highlights the Value of Diversified Farms in National Media[Read More]
Its been a tough week on the student farm. We’re down to 3 full time student employees, so we’ve been working extra hard to make sure we are staying on top of all of our tasks. It’s in crunch times like this that we are extra grateful that we all get along so well. Yesterday…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
Liz Maynard and Emily DeaKyne participated in the Vermillion County Diverse Farm tours on August 4, 2026. The group learned about grazing and marketing sheep, goats, chickens, and cattle at Royer Farm Fresh meats in Clinton on a morning tour. Over lunch Emily presented results from the Diverse Corn Belt project. After lunch the group…Read more about Diverse Farm Tour Highlights Livestock, Produce, and Local Marketing[Read More]
Salutation farm loving nation! Greetings from our student farm It’s been another lovely week, The land is lovely, rich with charm And full of the veggies that you seek. We’ve been a little low on labor But we’re having such fun, and spirits are high We’re dealing with typical pest misbehavior And protecting…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm (In Quatrains)[Read More]
Welcome to the off-farm edition of this week’s email! As much as I would love to talk about our pest struggles for the third week in a row, we’re at a point in the season where a lot of the on-farm happenings are more of the same, more of the same. To avoid the redundancy…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
