by Sophia Chiparus Happy week seventeen! I issue a warm Welcome back! to everyone, including me and many of the other interns. This week was Purdue’s fall break, so it has been a minute since I’ve set foot on the farm. With how overwhelming the semester has been, a break was much needed. I spent…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
Congratulations to Katherine Pivaral Toledo (MS, HLA; now at Purdue Forestry and Natural Resources) on the publication of “From fields to markets: Diversification case studies in the U.S. Corn Belt via a social-ecological systems lens” in the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. Co-authored with Dr. Ariana Torres the study is part of…Read more about Katherine Pivaral Toledo Publishes Study on Corn Belt Crop Diversification[Read More]
Hannah Robalino, a visiting scholar in Dr. Moriah Bilenky‘s lab, earned first place for her research poster at the XII Symposium of Zamoranos in Gainesville, Florida. The symposium brought together Zamorano alumni, students, researchers and agricultural professionals to share research findings and strengthen connections within the agricultural community. Her award-winning poster, “To Roll or Not…Read more about Hannah Robalino Wins First Place Poster Award at Zamorano Symposium[Read More]
Petrus Langenhoven, clinical assistant professor and Director of the Purdue Student Farm, visited The Ohio State University’s Department of Horticulture and Crop Science (HCS) on October 7–8. There he gave a departmental seminar titled “Growing More Than Vegetables: What a Student Farm Contributes to the Land-Grant Mission.” The talk used the Purdue Student Farm as…Read more about Langenhoven Shares Student Farm Model with Ohio State[Read More]
by Sophia Chiparus Hello Hello Hello! We’ve been busy bees on the farm leading up to fall break, but we have a few fun updates for y’all! Our kale has almost fully recovered from its earlier run in with the cross striped cabbage moth. This means it will be back this week, and available for…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
Kyle Daniel will be hosting the Indiana Nursery and Landscape Association’s Board of Directors (https://inla.org/officers/) on campus October 13th for their fall executive and board meetings. Following the meeting, Kyle will lead a tour for the board members at the Meigs Horticultural Research Farm.
On Oct. 2, 14 students and one adult from Purdue Polytechnic High School, accompanied by Zac Brown, assistant director of the Office of Academic Programs, visited the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture as part of a broader campus visit. During their time in HLA, students were introduced to Landscape Architecture by Sean Rotar and…Read more about Purdue Polytechnic High School Students Explore HLA Programs and Gardens[Read More]
Josh Widhalm presented virtually at the 2026 Sino-American Conference on New Horizons in Plant Science, held jointly by the Botanical Society of America and the Botanical Society of China in Tai’an, Shandong Province, China. His talk was titled “Investigating the Phytotoxic Mechanism of Action of the Allelochemical Juglone.”
Liz Maynard, Emily DeaKyne and Ariana Torres co-authored with Lauren Asprooth (Univ. Wisconsin) and Michael O’Donnell (Recovery Ag LLC) recent outreach publications from the Diverse Corn Belt project. Diversifying the Corn Belt: Horticultural Food Crops and Diversifying the Corn Belt: Extended Rotations introduce these crop options by providing an overview of benefits; relation to corn-soybean…Read more about New Diverse Corn Belt Outreach Publications[Read More]
Shivika Aggrawal, from Dr. Aaron Thompson’s lab at the Center for Community & Environmental Design (CCED), delivered an invited guest lecture for the Initiative for Civic Leadership in the University of Texas at Dallas’s School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences. Her talk, “What Can a Park Remember? Memory, Participation, & the Civic Capacity of…Read more about Aggrawal Delivers Invited Guest Lecture at University of Texas at Dallas[Read More]
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