Agriculture

Recent Stories

  • 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
  • emily mckeen cutting lettuce from garden
    - Farm to Fork to Fertilizer: New Course Takes Salad Greens Full Circle
    Order a salad at UNH’s popular Dairy Bar restaurant, and you join a closed loop of sustainability: The greens were grown on campus, less than a mile away, by students in the... Read More
  • Ecohydrologist Heidi Asbjornsen
    - Linking Water with the Landscape
    Ecohydrologist Heidi Asbjornsen adds a vital new dimension to Earth Systems Research Center work and brings experience to UNH’s nascent agro-ecosystems research. Read More
  • jackie buckley with cow
    - New York City Native is a Natural With Animals
    Jackie Buckley was 18 years old before she saw her first cow. And yet now she spends most of her time at UNH with them, either in her job or pre-vet studies. Read More
  • tuttles farm, pages for Yankee magazine with photos
    - House for Sale
    When Jennifer Latson, a third-year master of fine arts student in creative writing student at UNH, heard that Tuttle’s Farm, America’s oldest family farm in Dover, was for sale,... Read More
  • bicycle powered washing machine created by UNH students
    - Focus on Student Success
    UNH Highlights: Student Success   Seniors Create Bicycle-Powered Washing Machine A senior capstone project by three UNH mechanical engineering students could make life easier—and... Read More
  • joanne curran-clentano with students at dinner table in field with cows
    - Holy Cow!
    Professor Joanne Curran-Celentano, left, Jillian Smith '12 and Amy Beliveau '10, '12G at the UNH Organic Dairy Farm in Lee, N.H. The farm is one of seven facilities and fields... Read More
  • A Diva in the Dairy
    - A Diva in the Dairy
    “I’ve delivered calves in high heels,” says Rosie Cabral, a Ph.D. student at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) interested in improving neonatal calf immunity to... Read More
  • Jenny Jing
    - Strawberry Fields...for Now
    Jenny Jing ’13 loves strawberries, and that’s a good thing. She’s worked in the lab of professor Tom Davis, a leading strawberry genetics researcher, for three years. Read More
  • What a Farm Can Teach: The UNH Organic Dairy
    - What a Farm Can Teach: The UNH Organic Dairy
    “Walk around the farm. Dream. Think about what you would do if this were your farm.”  Read More