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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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Purdue Student Farm sees record yields, brings produce to the public — 29 July 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...