We are at the official halfway point of the CSA this year! With the 3-day weekend, it’s a bit difficult to compress the usual week update into 2 days and change, so bear with me folks! Meigs, one of our fellow research farms, is gearing up for the Mechanical Weed Control conference on the 11th…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
Hi, I’m Kennedy. I am a senior in Sustainable Food and Farming Systems, with minors in Horticulture and Plant Biology, and a certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. This past summer was my second season at the Student Farm. I am also the unofficial collector of some of the “mutant” vegetables that pop up on the…Read more about Purdue Student Farm Student Spotlight: Kennedy Jean[Read More]
Lettuce leaf our salad days of August behind us as the month comes to a close, and reflect upon how apple season is already here and in full swing. What even. In case you were wondering, it has indeed been a bit warm; the classes doing their lab work out here are absolute troopers and…Read more about This Week on the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
GOLDWEEK: Well, things are certainly quieter this week, seeing as I’ve been abandoned by my fellows for secondary education. If Jane has the email next week, it’s because I’ve wasted away from neglect. Not a huge amount to report this go around! Lots of watermelon, and peppers (as some of you may have noticed). Cucumbers…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
The Diverse Corn Belt Team (Dr. Linda Prokopy, Dr. Aaron Thompson, Dr. Liz Maynard, PhD student Ishraq Awashra, and Project manager Emily Usher-DeaKyne) had another successful Reimagining Agricultural Diversity meeting at Dulls Tree Farm in Thorntown, Indiana. Great conversations about the future of agriculture across the Midwest!
BLACK WEEK Hello! Our resident rabbit catcher/freelance writer, Jane, has left us defenseless, so it’s Nellie here, back in action after a brief sojourn to stress my way through summer finals – I apparently picked an eventful couple weeks to be away. I missed the beginning of sweet corn season, a deer corpse, and DNR…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
After the Small Farm Field Day last week the IMPACT^2 Team met with a group of small farmers and Extension educators to pilot two serious games. These games help farmers and educators think through the impacts of climate change on agriculture and what management strategies they can use to help mitigate those impacts. HLA folks…Read more about IMPACT^2 Team Piloted Games Highlighting Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture[Read More]
We got our first harvest of lettuce from the container farms last week! Yields came in slightly higher than expected but not as high as Brittany hopes to push them in the future. At full capacity, one container farm is capable of producing almost 1000 heads of lettuce per week! All product grown will go…Read more about Beautiful First Harvest from Container Farms[Read More]