According to attendees and organizers alike, this year’s Purdue Small Farm Education Field Day, which consisted of lectures and on-farm demonstrations, provided excellent guidance for small-scale growers. Hosted by Purdue’s Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, the field day featured lectures on planting and sustainability, soil care, high tunnels, cover crops, small-scale equipment, food safety[Read More…]
The Sports Turf Managers Association (STMA) – comprised of more than 2,700 men and women professionals overseeing sports fields worldwide and critical to athletes’ safety – has named Ryder Haulk, assistant sports field manager for Purdue Athletics winner of the annual “Stars and Stripes” field art contest. Haulk’s “Red, White and Purdue” design at Bittinger[Read More…]
Awards August 2014 – May 2015 Faculty Steve Hallett has been promoted to the rank of Professor, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture. Brian Dilkes has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture. Aaron Patton was awarded the 2015 Purdue Graduate Student Government (PGSG) Faculty Mentor Award. The award was graduate student[Read More…]
Researchers at Purdue University are finding LEDs can have positive effects on both ornamentals and leafy vegetables. By David Kuack As more research is done with light emitting diodes (LEDs), scientists are discovering new ways to use the lights on ornamental and edible plants. Researchers at Purdue University have done extensive studies on annual bedding[Read More…]
Purdue Master Gardeners in Tippecanoe County along with Jeff Phillips, Extension Educator, ANR, Tippecanoe County, have developed demonstration gardens and community gardens at the Purdue Extension Office in Lafayette as well as at many other locations throughout the Lafayette/West Lafayette area. Purdue Master Gardener volunteers in partnership with Purdue Extension use these demonstration gardens to[Read More…]
Kirby Kalbaugh, applications and systems administrator, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Provides technology support on specialized projects that contribute to research, teaching and extension. One of the originators, in 2012, of the Purdue Arboretum project to inventory 40,000 trees on campus and build a learning platform on the data. Acknowledged as a co-author on[Read More…]
Recent HLA alumna Chelsea Maupin is one of six Purdue students to be awarded with Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants and will spend the next academic year teaching in Vietnam. Originally from Kokomo, Indiana, she graduated with a degree in sustainable food and farm systems. “I’ll teach English in Phan Rang-thap Cham City, Vietnam, through[Read More…]
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