WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Register now for the Purdue Small Farm Training Area Day, an occasion that includes an array of demonstration stations that includes finest administration practices and highlights of analysis strategies on the farm. On Thursday, July 25, attendees can find out about subjects like companion crops and syrphid fly recruitment, high-tunnel candy pepper and desk grape manufacturing, raised mattress gardening, strawberry manufacturing and propagation, postharvest wash/pack design, Peruvian bean and corn manufacturing, and onion and potato weed administration updates. The occasion is offered by the Purdue Student Farm and the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture.
In accordance with surveys from earlier years, 80% of contributors reported that that they had skilled monetary enhancements after adopting new, really helpful practices from the data offered at previous subject days.
“This subject day brings collectively small farm and concrete growers from throughout Indiana. Its distinctive setup permits ample time for information sharing and networking,” says Petrus Langenhoven, Purdue Pupil Farm director. “In previous years, growers have been in a position to instantly apply the information gained at their very own farms or city gardens. The smallest particulars, issues that we as educators take as a right, have a big effect on small farm or city backyard operations.”
Subjects to be coated embrace:
- Insect dynamics in excessive tunnels
- Companion crops and syrphid fly recruitment
- Excessive-tunnel desk grapes
- Benefits and concerns of raised mattress gardening
- Excessive-tunnel candy pepper manufacturing methods and selection choice
- Tarps, fireplace and cultivation — weed administration updates and demonstrations
- Strawberry manufacturing at small-scale vegetable farms
- Rising open-pollinated corn on small farms
- Put up-harvest wash/pack design for small farms
- Bringing the delicacies of the Andes to Higher Lafayette
- Digital instruments for small farms
- Freight Farms container farming
The Purdue Pupil Farm is situated at 1491 Cherry Lane, West Lafayette, Indiana. Register to attend here.
The Black Dog Barbeque Company might be on-site for attendees to buy lunch and snacks. The Kona Ice truck might be on website with one free cup for every attendee compliments of Purdue Extension and Purdue Horticulture and Panorama Structure.
About Purdue College
Purdue College is a public analysis establishment demonstrating excellence at scale. Ranked amongst high 10 public universities and with two faculties within the high 4 in the US, Purdue discovers and disseminates information with a high quality and at a scale second to none. Greater than 105,000 college students examine at Purdue throughout modalities and places, together with practically 50,000 in individual on the West Lafayette campus. Dedicated to affordability and accessibility, Purdue’s most important campus has frozen tuition 13 years in a row. See how Purdue by no means stops within the persistent pursuit of the following large leap — together with its first complete city campus in Indianapolis, the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. Faculty of Enterprise, Purdue Computes and the One Well being initiative — at https://www.purdue.edu/president/strategic-initiatives
Author: Nyssa Lilovich, 765-494-7077, nclilovi@purdue.edu
Supply: Lori Jolly-Brown, ljollybr@purdue.edu
Petrus Langenhoven, plangenh@purdue.edu
Agricultural Communications: 765-494-8415;
Maureen Manier, Division Head, mmanier@purdue.edu
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