The Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture (HLA) bids a fond farewell to Brittany Weerts, who is concluding her tenure as Hydroponic Research Operations Administrator. Throughout her time at Purdue, Weerts has played a pivotal role in advancing the department’s controlled environment agriculture capabilities. Petrus Langenhoven, Director of the Purdue Student Farm, reflects on Weerts’[Read More…]
Brittany Weerts
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 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…]
The Purdue Small Farm Education Field Day was held July 25 at the Purdue Student Farm. Petrus Langenhoven, Sofia Catucuamba, Miranda Purcell, Stephen Meyers, Wenjing Guan, Lian Duron, Ashley Adair, Brittany Weerts, and Hoagland Lab members Ada Martinez and Sophia Mears presented their research to attendees. Colleagues from the Departments of Entomology, Food Science, ABE,[Read More…]
Ali Jewell, Brittany Weerts, and Nathan Liberty Brittany Weerts and Ali Jewell traveled to Boston last week for a 2-day intensive training for the new Freight Farm container farms at the Purdue Student Farm. While there, they met with Nathan Liberty – Freight Farm’s growing manager and also a former HLA graduate. Nathan and the rest[Read More…]
Brittany Weerts has joined HLA as the new Hydroponic Research Operations Administrator. Her background is in commercial growing, with an emphasis on greenhouse and hydroponic production. For the last three years, she worked as the Head Grower for Eden Valley Farms, a hydroponic start-up in Francesville, Indiana, where they supplied major retail chains with fresh[Read More…]