In this workshop on the Student Farm, from 10am-12pm on August 4, attendees will learn about insect and mammal pests and diseases, and how they affect the growth and production of crops. Learn to identify and organically manage insect pests, weeds and diseases. The...
Join us for our second Community Volunteer Day of the summer! With the farm in full swing, we need helping hands around the one-acre farm. From 9-11am, we will seed, water, weed, and do whatever we can to make the farm the best it can be. Volunteers of all ages are...
By: Devon Luscombe, Agribusiness Management The Student Farm at Penn State supports the community in many ways. One of my jobs during the summer is to run and maintain the CSA, Campus Supported Agriculture, which provides fresh produce to professors, students,...
Eva Bonta, Spring 2018 The independent study I am taking under Leslie Pillen, and the project that I am helping advance had curious beginnings. In fall of 2017, I toured the Student Farm as part of a class I was taking on the global agri-food system, Geography 430. I...
From Food Waste to Food Rescue: Finding my Inner Food Warrior By: Katrina Weakland, AmeriCorps Member You truly can’t grasp the scope of food waste and an undermined food system until it hits really close to home. This happened to me when I was standing in a field,...