Agriculture

Recent Stories

  • brittany kokoszka with dairy cow
    - For Cows and CREAM: Never a Day Off
    Brittany Kokoszka, a sophomore from Franklin, MA, meets a red-and-white milk cow in the herd at Saturday's open house for CREAM, a class of 25 UNH students who spend an academic... Read More
  • Strawberry Fields Forever
    - Strawberry Fields Forever
    Researchers at the NH Agricultural Experiment Station (NHAES) at the University of New Hampshire investigating a strawberry production system used throughout the nation’s leading... Read More
  • participants in plant breeding efforts in africa
    - Growing a Solution
    Instructors and students of the African Plant Breeding Academy in Nairobi, Kenya. In the backyard gardens of sub-Saharan Africa, many people plant traditional strains of millet,... Read More
  • robertson family
    - New Program Helps Keep a Farm Growing
          The Bohanan farm in Contoocook, N.H., has been in Si Robertson’s family for more than 100 years. Almost from the start, the Thompson School has played a critical role in... Read More
  • Becky Sideman of UNH Cooperative Extension
    - Winter Greens
    Now that the purple and blue shades of the polar vortex have eased off the weather maps, we can loosen our scarves and maybe go hatless. We’ve made it through the once-every-few-... Read More
  • students at farm internship
    - On-Farm Experience is Keystone to Capstone Course
    Three Cooperative Extension food and agriculture specialists and a local farm teamed with a UNH professor this spring to bring to life a capstone course for the new Sustainable... Read More
  • students on ireland study abroad trip
    - The Luck of the Irish Scholars
    The Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the College of Life Sciences (COLSA) at the University of New Hampshire (UNH), Kim Babbitt, is no stranger to student requests that she... Read More
  • betty sideman
    - Moving Right Along
    Becky Sideman, a vegetable and berry specialist with UNH Cooperative Extension, will use cutting edge technology to assist with crop research and classroom teaching. Read More
  • solar panels being install on woodruff house in the minidorms, 1980's
    - Evergreen
    CATCHING SOME RAYS: In a 1980 photo from The New Hampshire, students adjust solar panels on the roof of Woodruff House. Long before UNH had a Sustainability Academy, there were... Read More
  • local farmers in UNH winter greenhouse with lettuce
    - A Lettuce in Winter?
    A UNH alumnus and co-owner of Demers Garden Center, a perennial and bedding plant mecca in the southeast corner of Manchester, Robert Demers has 22,000 square feet of greenhouse... Read More