Purdue Agriculture Communications published a photostory about the Overbeck Controlled Environment Facility: https://purdueag.exposure.co/overbeck-facility.
It’s a misty Thursday morning, we’ve had a little under 0.4 inches of rain, and the last of the oranges and reds are fading from the trees. There’s song sparrows in the wetland, and copious amounts of mud everywhere else. In case anyone was wondering, it is November indeed. Lots of harvesting underway this week!…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
It’s been a week much like any other out here. We’ve been harvesting away and keeping up with odds and ends of maintenance. On my part, I have been processing quite a few onions. We’ve got tobacco drying, carrots reseeding, pea trellising, the whole nine yards. Mason, Dylan and Emily took on the great burden…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
Find yourself a tin roof, a rain gauge and enjoy the smell of petrichor on the horizon – we’ve got a potential thunderstorm this morning! And I say now as many a farmer has said before me: we suuuuure needed it. As a whole, it’s been a slower week, mostly harvest and maintenance. A classic case…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
Back to your regularly scheduled programming folks! Things have been quiet this week, in part because we got very on top of things for last week’s events (and needed a little bit of recouperation time), partially because Chris finally fell victim to the bug that’s been going around the Horticulture department. He had to be banished from…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
On Friday, October 18, we held a ribbon-cutting for the Overbeck Controlled Agriculture Facility located at the Purdue Student Farm. Members of the Overbeck Family were present to cut the ribbon cleverly made to look like lettuce! It was a lovely event and attendees got to see first-hand how well Brittany Weerts has our Freight…Read more about HLA Celebrates New Overbeck Controlled Agriculture Facility with Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony[Read More]
Faith Hartman (Senior/SFS) was one of three College of Ag students featured by Purdue for National Farmers Day: Celebrating the future of farming.
The Purdue Exponent featured a story on the Purdue Student Farm earlier this week: The Purdue Student Farm supports the Lafayette community.
About 15 staff members from the College of Agriculture had an opportunity to tour the Purdue Student Farm and the Overbeck Controlled Environment Ag Facility on October 14. Brittany Weerts lead the tour of the freight farms, while Chris Adair lead the tour of the student farm. Attendees were able to bring home some leafy…Read more about College of Ag Staff Learned about Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
Thyme, thyme, thyme, see what’s become of us! While we’ve yet to dip fully below freezing, things have been chilly enough that our crops are certainly feeling it. Our days have included quite a bit of madcap winterizing as we work to get the high tunnels closed up. In case any of you were wondering,…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]