Petrus Langenhoven and Meredith Cobb are working with the Indiana Mint Market Development and Research Council (IMMDC) to plan the 2024 Midwest Mint Growers Conference. This year, the conference will be held in South Bend, IN, and we expect to see growers from Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin attend the conference. For more information, visit https://ag.purdue.edu/department/hla/extension/mint.html. Look…Read more about 2024 Midwest Mint Growers Conference[Read More]
On December 14 the North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program announced its list of 2023 Research and Education Awards (NCR-SARE’s 2023 Research and Education Awards – SARE North Central). A project entitled “Exploring Underutilized Weed Management Methods on Indiana Small Farms Through On-Farm Research, Community Learning, and Farmer-to-Farmer Education” was awarded $249,669….Read more about Horticulture Weed Science Lab Awarded NCR-SARE Grant[Read More]
Editor’s Note: This story had missing text in last week’s HLA Happenings. Below is the complete text of the story. HLA Happenings regrets this error. Tian Li (Mechanical Engineering), Lisa Mauer (Food Science), and Petrus Langenhoven (HLA) received an Ag-Eng – Strengthening Interdisciplinary Collaboration between the Colleges of Agriculture and Engineering grant. The project titled Self-Cooling…Read more about Petrus Langenhoven and Collaborators Receive Grant[Read More]
PI Amanda Deering and Co-PIs Petrus Langenhoven, Tari Gary, and Scott Monroe were awarded a USDA Specialty Crop Block grant, Education and Outreach Activities to Improve Food Safety for Small Farms ($155,966). The grant will develop and deliver produce food safety programming for small fruit and vegetable growers in Indiana. In addition to current educational…Read more about Amanda Deering, Petrus Langenhoven and Co-PI’s Awarded USA Speciality Crop Block Grant[Read More]
The Pinney Purdue Vegetable Twilight Meeting on August 24 featured presentations by HLA members Celia Corado, Steve Meyers, Lori Hoagland, Petrus Langenhoven and Liz Maynard, in addition to other speakers. Wenjing Guan hosted tasting evaluations of tomatoes and watermelon and the evening wrapped up with dinner and community taste test of sweet corn from local…Read more about Pinney Purdue Vegetable Twilight Meeting[Read More]
The Purdue Small Farm Education Field Day was held July 27 at the Purdue Student Farm. Around a hundred participants came out to learn about the latest research from Purdue Extension specialists and researchers to help small farmers in Indiana. Petrus Langenhoven and Dennis Gustavo Toc Mo (“High Tunnel Pepper Production and Variety Selection”), Miranda…Read more about 2023 Small Farm Education Field Day[Read More]