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What's New
Podcast Features KY Extension Agent, Common Earth Gardens
The Vegetable Beet Podcast from the Great Lakes Vegetable Producers Network featured Jefferson County Horticulture Extension Agent Bethany Pratt, and Common Earth Gardens Executive
Greenhouse Cucumber Research Could Help Farmers Diversify
The University of Kentucky Controlled Environment Horticulture Research Unit, the Owen Lab, is in the midst of a two-year study to evaluate cucumber varieties for greenhouse production.
Department of Hort, Arq Collaborate on Research
Through a public-private research collaboration, the University of Kentucky Department of Horticulture and Arq, a technology company based in London, United Kingdom, with offices in Lexington, and its first
UK Conducts Coleus Variety Trials
In a greenhouse at the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment’s Horticultural Research Farm, 111 cultivars of coleus grew lush this spring under the careful watch of assistant horticulture professor Garrett Owen,
Leafy Greens Production under Protected Culture Survey
University of Kentucky researchers are seeking voluntary input from individuals or businesses producing leafy greens (lettuce, kale, spinach, etc.) under protected culture.
Students Awarded Sustainability Summer Research Fellowships
Agricultural and Medical Biotechnology undergraduate students Courtney Shields (Principal Investigator, Kendall Corbin), Bridget Bolt (Principal Investigator, Carlos Rodriguez Lopez), and Gretchen
Raihan Receives Tekrony Travel Fellowship
IPSS graduate student from Horticulture, Mr. Tajbir Raihan, has
received one of the 2021 Dennis
Tekrony Graduate Student Travel
Fellowship in Seed Biology Awards
Virtual Cut Flower Short Course Webinar Recording
Topic: Perennial Cut Flowers for Kentucky. Speaker: Shari Dutton, UK Department of Horticulture. Recording available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F41Z1uM6B84.
Rich Awarded Research Grant
William Rich, an undergraduate student in the Department of Horticulture, has been awarded a $2,000 student research grant by the International Plant Propagators' Society Eastern Region Foundation