WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue Student Farm will provide fresh, locally grown vegetables to community members this summer and fall through the Boilermaker Vegetable Season Pass, now in its fourth year. The community-supported agriculture program provides an educational experience for students as well as weekly bags of fresh vegetables and herbs for community participants.[Read More…]
The Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture welcomes Dr. Moriah Bilenky, Assistant Professor. Bilenky’s research program is centered on three broad questions 1) can low-input agriculture systems be sustainable; 2) can they reduce off farm inputs; and 3) can they help build resilient food systems? Bilenky aims to explore cropping systems that employ cover cropping,[Read More…]
The 2022 Small Farm Education Field Day was held earlier today, Friday, July 29, at the Purdue Student Farm. Participants from HLA included Ashley Adair, Chris Adair, Miranda Purcell, Wenjing Guan, Liz Maynard, Emerson Espinoza, Petrus Langenhoven, Lian Durón, Eduardo Miranda, Stephen Meyers, Luis Medina, and Lori Jolly-Brown. Other participants included Amanda Deering, Scott Monroe,[Read More…]
