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Rooted in sustainability: Growing a future in food and farming — 15 January 2026

For Natalie Nenneker from Wadesville, Indiana, Purdue Agriculture offered the perfect place to turn a lifelong love of nature into a meaningful...

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Where students and crops grow: Purdue Student Farm wins 2025 TEAM Award — 28 October 2025

The Purdue Student Farm (PSF), a small-scale sustainable farm managed by the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture (HLA), has been...

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Indiana Organic Network: Cultivating community for Hoosier farmers — 08 October 2025

Communities rely on farmers to produce the food that sits on their dinner table, and farmers rely on consumers to provide a market for their...

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Small Farm Education Field Day will feature new research, demonstrations and Purdue experts — 05 May 2025

The Purdue Small Farm Education Field Day on July 24 will offer demonstrations and presentations to support small-scale farming. The Department of...

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Digital Ag Club’s Scarecrow-bot making its debut at Boiler Gold Rush — 14 August 2024

Thumping hind legs. Two pointed ears. White, fluffy cottontails. The markers of an enemy to gardeners and farmers worldwide. When Jeanine Arana,...

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Registration is now open for upcoming Purdue Small Farm Education Field Day — 12 June 2024

Register for the Purdue Small Farm Education Field Day, an event featuring an array of demonstration stations featuring best management practices...

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Purdue Student Farm serves as 1 of nearly 40 entomology research sites across the United States — 18 January 2024

The Purdue Student Farm, located on campus on Cherry Lane, is just one of the nearly 40 sites that an entomology research team visits once per...

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Celebrating a passion for farming — 12 October 2023

October 12 marks National Farmer’s Day, honoring the people who work hard to feed the world. This year, we’re celebrating three Purdue...

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Cocina con Carina: How a garden connects agriculture, food and heritage — 11 October 2023

It’s lunchtime at the Purdue Latino Cultural Center (LCC), and the aroma of warm arepas invites you in the multicolored house on Waldron...

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Registration is now open for upcoming 2023 Purdue Small Farm Education Field Day — 16 May 2023

Visit the Purdue Student Farm and connect with other small farmers to learn about topics like drip irrigation, organic pesticide options, high...

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Purdue Student Farm collaborates with campus cultural centers — 24 August 2022

Since 2018, the Student Farm manager, Chris Adair, has collaborated with the Latino Cultural Center (LCC) to provide vegetable plants for an...

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Student farm shares vegetables, food with community — 19 October 2021

"The Boilermaker Vegetable Season Pass directly supports the student farm's foundation: to teach students about small-scale agriculture,...

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Student Farm Featured in Inside Indiana Business — 14 May 2021

Organizers say the Purdue University Student Farm will again offer fresh, locally grown vegetables once again to community members. Now in its...

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Purdue Student Farm Offers Vegetable Season Pass — 03 May 2021

The Purdue Student Farm will provide fresh locally grown vegetables to community members for the second year in a row. The Purdue Student Farm...

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Purdue Student Farm sees record yields, brings produce to the public — 05 August 2020

The Purdue Student Farm has started selling to the public. This service will run into the fall, until a date to be determined. Customers will be...