Posts Tagged ‘Rhoden Farm’

Department sells eggs, beef for fundraiser

by   |  02.18.14  |  Uncategorized

Chicken behind fence.

ACU students spend time growing crops and taking care of animals at the ACU Farm. (Optimist photo by Wyatt Morgan)

By Grace Coan
Posted on February 4, 2014 More »

Second Annual ACU Barn Dance

by   |  11.18.13  |  Uncategorized

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.

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Prickly Pear Cactus Jelly

by   |  10.07.13  |  Uncategorized

Photo by Dr. Michael Nicodemus.

Photo by Dr. Michael Nicodemus.

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 »

Raised Beds

0 Commentsby   |  03.02.11  |  Uncategorized

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 »