Hello! My name is Sydney Kleiman and I am a Horticulture Ambassador at Purdue. I am a rising senior in Horticulture Production and Marketing. This summer I have been interning at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina! I have had been working four days per week in the Historic Rose Garden this summer, but[Read More…]
The Purdue Small Farm Education Field Day was held July 25 at the Purdue Student Farm. Petrus Langenhoven, Sofia Catucuamba, Miranda Purcell, Stephen Meyers, Wenjing Guan, Lian Duron, Ashley Adair, Brittany Weerts, and Hoagland Lab members Ada Martinez and Sophia Mears presented their research to attendees. Colleagues from the Departments of Entomology, Food Science, ABE,[Read More…]
We got our first harvest of lettuce from the container farms last week! Yields came in slightly higher than expected but not as high as Brittany hopes to push them in the future. At full capacity, one container farm is capable of producing almost 1000 heads of lettuce per week! All product grown will go[Read More…]
Southwest Purdue Agricultural Center hosted a Watermelon Variety Evaluation Open House on July 24. Representatives from Hazera Seeds, Syngenta, BASF, Seedway, Origene Seeds, Clifton Seeds, Sakata, Glades Crop Care and Corteva visited the trials. The watermelon variety trials conducted at the Southwest Purdue Agricultural Center are supported by Purdue Extension and seed companies. Our goal[Read More…]
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