Ashley Adair, Lori Hoagland, and Liz Maynard traveled with Indiana Urban Soil Health and NRCS staff to Frith Farm in Scarborough, ME last week. Daniel Mays, owner of Frith Farm, hosted the group for a no-till organic vegetable workshop on June 15th. Frith Farm emphasizes soil health in all its production practices, including minimizing tillage,[Read More…]
New paper from the Hoagland Lab led by former graduate student Narda Trivino, titled ‘Carrot genotypes differentially alter soil bacterial communities and decomposition of plant residue in soil’, was published in the journal Plant and Soil (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-023-05892-0). The long-term goal of this research described in this paper is to develop new carrot cultivars with better[Read More…]
Lori Hoagland and Petrus Langenhoven attended the national Mint Industry Research Council conference in Charleston, SC, on January 25 & 26, 2023. We presented Opportunities and Limitations Associated with Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation to Control Verticillium Wilt in Mint, our SARE project research findings to mint growers and industry stakeholders from Washington State, Oregon, California, Idaho, Michigan,[Read More…]
The Biological Approaches to Sustainable Mint Production SARE project team will host its final workshop at Fair Oaks Farm on January 19, 2023. The workshop will focus on presenting our research findings to the project Advisory Committee, the Indiana Mint Market Development & Research Council (IMMDC) board, and Indiana mint growers and industry stakeholders. Presentations[Read More…]
