Illinois has gone NUTS with research on edible perennialized food systems. Check out the Woody Perennial Polyculture and the Multifunctional Woody Polyculture sites that are located on our campus’ South Farms.
Category: Updates
Lab group celebrating with ice cream
https://web.archive.org/web/20180830223412/http://michelle-wander.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/vimeo.jpg We are going to be sad to say goodbye to many friends as summer ends. Wander Lab Dishing Dirt See video!
Agriculture Evolving
It was a treat to visit the Morrow Plots with Ford Denison during his visit to campus to discuss his book “Darwinian Agriculture”. It was great fun to stand in front of this county’s oldest agronomic trial and ponder how to study perennial polycultures with Ford (former manager of LTRAS which UC Davis claims as […]
Summer 2013 Update
Lab lunch to celebrate the completion of field sampling and thank Ed Zaborski for all of his hard work finding fields
What a Summer – Can we top in 2012?
The path to greatness starts in the soils lab
Spring 2011 got off to a great start with a visit from Angie Hernandez, former student hourly and art history major. She assured the current crew that soil grinding helped her get that internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Italy.
Spring Semester Highlights 2011
Highlights this spring include the recent Earthweek visit to campus by Nancy Creamer, Director of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems, and by Matt Liebman, Wallace Chair of Sustainable Agriculture. Nancy shared the story of how North Carolina is building a local food system and the launch of their 10 percent campaign. Matt’s talk on the Impacts of Biodiversity on Agricultural Systems packed […]