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]
Welcome back to another beautiful week on the Purdue student farm! The heat has been punishing, but we’re rewarded (or perhaps further punished) with increasing harvest loads, specifically of our zucchini and tomatoes. Though last week was the true pest edition of this email, numbers are still on the rise across the board. A new…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
Andrew Flachs discussed his new book, Feeding the World as if People Mattered with Civil Eats, exploring landscapes and communities in India, Bosnia, and the Midwest who are weathering pandemics, climate disasters, and authoritarian politics while nourishing life.
Shivika Aggrawal, from Dr. Aaron Thompson’s lab in the Center for Community & Environmental Design (CCED), delivered an oral presentation titled “How to Study Social–Ecological Memory in Agroecosystems: Methodological Insights from Empirical Research” at the 2026 annual meeting of the Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS) and the Association for the Study of Food…Read more about Shivika Aggrawal Shares Research at AFHVS/ASFS Annual Meeting[Read More]