Krishna Nemali and Sangrak Son (Ph.D. student in Nemali’s lab) are continuing their outreach and engagement work at Otterbein Elementary School, Indiana. The goal of their project is to shift the attitudes in schoolchildren towards healthy eating by providing both hands on and curriculum-based training. They installed indoor hydroponic systems to enable schoolchildren produce leafy[Read More…]
Editor’s Note: One of our HLA Presenters was inadvertently missing from the previous version of this story. Antonio Verzotto will also present at the Indiana Green Expo. HLA Happenings regrets this error. Fourteen of HLA’s Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students will speak at the Indiana Green Expo, January 30 – February 1 at the Indiana[Read More…]
Krishna Nemali and others hosted a tour for 19 visitors that included ag advisory members and farmers from Hungary to showcase HLA’s Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) program. This included a short presentation about CEA faculty and research, teaching, and extension activities and several graduate and undergraduate students shared research activities. The group visited the greenhouses[Read More…]
The Nemali lab in collaboration with Marion county extension started the first workshop on ‘Home Hydroponics’ at the Artisan Market Place inside 16-Tech Innovation District, Indianapolis on June 23, 2022. The workshops will be conducted on a monthly basis for 20-30 people at a time. Their focus is to train attendees on how to grow[Read More…]
