The farm is feeling inspired and well-travelled this fine Thursday. Just yesterday, Chris and the interns- myself included- took a van about an hour north to visit the impressive Perkins’ Good Earth Farm. The purpose of the field trip was a bit of an information exchange between Chris and one of the farm owners, Dan…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm – A Visit to Perkins’ Good Earth Farm[Read More]
The Purdue Student Farm has been named the recipient of the prestigious Purdue Agriculture 2025 TEAM Award, recognizing its outstanding collaborative efforts and impact across the university and community. This vibrant initiative is powered by a dedicated team of students, staff, and faculty who work across disciplines to cultivate more than just crops. The farm…Read more about Purdue Student Farm To Be Honored with 2025 TEAM Award[Read More]
Good Thursday everyone. We hope you all have been enjoying your veggies thus far. If you were excited about the addition of tomatoes to your bags last week, prepare yourselves… Our tomatoes are starting to ripen very quickly. You can expect weekly tomatoes roughly until the very end of the CSA (until early-November), so collect…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
This Wednesday our Purdue Student Farm interns took a trip to Illinois to visit UIUC’s Sustainable Student Farm. We met with their farm manager, Matt Turino, who toured us around the 7-acre plot. The UIUC Sustainable Student Farm boasts its own greenhouse, a permaculture area full of chestnut trees and currant bushes, and several pollinator…Read more about Purdue Student Farm Interns Visit IUCI Sustainable Student Farm[Read More]
The Purdue Student Farm is debuting the Purdue Boilermaker Spring Salad Kit, available beginning March 7 – May 9. The kit will yield one to two large salads and include a lettuce base with a rotational mix of mustard greens; herbs; root crops like radishes, turnips and beets; and vegetables like cucumbers and cherry tomatoes….Read more about Purdue Student Farm Debuts New Spring Salad Kit[Read More]
FINAL CSA OF THE YEAR! It’s a balmy 32 degrees Fahrenheit, and the snow is falling at a nice semi-horizontal angle; as you may have guessed, we’re living the dream this fine Thursday afternoon. The bin washer is soon to begin its winter state at Meigs, where it can reside safe and sound in an…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
It’s a misty Thursday morning, we’ve had a little under 0.4 inches of rain, and the last of the oranges and reds are fading from the trees. There’s song sparrows in the wetland, and copious amounts of mud everywhere else. In case anyone was wondering, it is November indeed. Lots of harvesting underway this week!…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
It’s been a week much like any other out here. We’ve been harvesting away and keeping up with odds and ends of maintenance. On my part, I have been processing quite a few onions. We’ve got tobacco drying, carrots reseeding, pea trellising, the whole nine yards. Mason, Dylan and Emily took on the great burden…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
Find yourself a tin roof, a rain gauge and enjoy the smell of petrichor on the horizon – we’ve got a potential thunderstorm this morning! And I say now as many a farmer has said before me: we suuuuure needed it. As a whole, it’s been a slower week, mostly harvest and maintenance. A classic case…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
Back to your regularly scheduled programming folks! Things have been quiet this week, in part because we got very on top of things for last week’s events (and needed a little bit of recouperation time), partially because Chris finally fell victim to the bug that’s been going around the Horticulture department. He had to be banished from…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
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