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…]
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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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
On Friday, October 18, we held a ribbon-cutting for the Overbeck Controlled Agriculture Facility located at the Purdue Student Farm. Members of the Overbeck Family were present to cut the ribbon cleverly made to look like lettuce! It was a lovely event and attendees got to see first-hand how well Brittany Weerts has our Freight[Read More…]
About 15 staff members from the College of Agriculture had an opportunity to tour the Purdue Student Farm and the Overbeck Controlled Environment Ag Facility on October 14. Brittany Weerts lead the tour of the freight farms, while Chris Adair lead the tour of the student farm. Attendees were able to bring home some leafy[Read More…]
Thyme, thyme, thyme, see what’s become of us! While we’ve yet to dip fully below freezing, things have been chilly enough that our crops are certainly feeling it. Our days have included quite a bit of madcap winterizing as we work to get the high tunnels closed up. In case any of you were wondering,[Read More…]