Department sells eggs, beef for fundraiser
By Grace Coan
Posted on February 4, 2014 More »
A blog for the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
By Grace Coan
Posted on February 4, 2014 More »
On Saturday November 9, the AES Club along with the Block and Brittle Club hosted the second annual ACU Barn Dance at ACU’s Rhoden Farm. The event was a huge success. The dance started at 7:00 PM and lasted until 10:30 PM. Over 120 students attended the dance. All of the proceeds from the event went to fund the AES and Block and Brittle Clubs.
Exceptional. Innovative. Real. That is ACU’s motto and here in the A&E Department we are contributing to that way of thinking. Most people would see a cactus and avoid it because of the pain that it could potentially cause them, but not the Exceptional, Innovative and Real professors and students in our department. More »
The brainstorming is finally becoming a reality on Rhoden farm as students and faculty are hard at work on the raised bed garden project. Teaching students about appropriate agriculture for a developing country is a primary motivation for development of the raised bed gardens where research, demonstration and lab experiences will occur.
The A&E department started discussing the raised bed project in the fall of 2009 and just started constructionlast year. Dr. Nicodemus, assistant professor of environmental science, brings his Plant Science students to work on the garden 5-6 times each semester. More »