HLA

Happenings
March 23-27, 2015
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 from 12:30 pm to 4:00 pm
Good Agricultural Practices A to Z - Focus on Cantaloupe (Elkhart County)
Ag Hall, Elkhart County 4-H Fairgrounds, 17746 County Road 34, Goshen, IN
This Good Agricultural Practices workshop will share strategies to reduce microbial
contamination of produce from seed to the moment you sell it. Use these on-farm preventive
controls as a basis for on-farm risk assessment and writing a food safety plan or even
becoming GAPs certified. This workshop is focused on cantaloupe production and processing
but all growers will gain useful tips. Preventive control criteria for cantaloupe as well as
proposed FSMA rules to reduce microbial contamination will be discussed. This activity was
funded, by Purdue, as part of AgSEED Crossroads funding to support Indiana's Agriculture
and Rural Development.
COST: Free: This workshop is funded by an AgSEED grant.
REGISTER: Sign up online at <a
href="http://tinyurl.com/RegisterGAPsAtoZ">tinyurl.com/RegisterGAPsAtoZ</a>, or call 574533-0554, Ext 106.
For more information: Email jburbrink@purdue.edu or call 574-533-0554, Ext 106.
Tuesday, March 24 - Thursday, March 26. Bruce Bordelon will be attending the National
Viticulture and Enology Extension Leadership Conference in Lodi, California. He will present
a report on activities in Indiana. One day of the program will be an Innovations in Extension
Symposium with speakers from UC-Davis, USDA-ARS, and the National Grape and Wine
Initiative plus industry groups such as the Almond Board, Sunmaid Raisins, and the Lodi
Winegrape Commission.
Tuesday, March 24 - Friday March 28. Mindy Appold will be attending the Council of
Educators in Landscape Architects Conference, Incite Change, Change Insight in Manhattan
Kansas at Kansas State University. She will be speaking on the topic of sustainability and
presenting a talk entitled Integrating SITES V2 Into Design Studio
Curriculum.
Wednesday, March 25 from 10:00-11:00 a.m., HORT 217
Coffee Hour. Drop in to interact with your colleagues. Graduate Students, this is your
chance to chat with faculty. Please bring your own cup.
Thursday, March 26 at 3:30 p.m. (reception at 3:10 p.m.) in HORT 117
Horticulture Seminar
Gary Gardener, University of Minnesota
Multiple UV-B Perception Mechanisms in Plants
Friday, March 27, 2015 at 12:30 pm
Good Agricultural Practices A to Z Workshop (Parke County)
Parke County Fairgrounds, 1472 U.S. 41, Rockville, IN
Contact: Jim Luzar, 812-462-3371, luzar@purdue.edu.
Sign up online at <a
href="http://tinyurl.com/RegisterGAPsAtoZ">tinyurl.com/RegisterGAPsAtoZ.</a>
Friday, March 27 at 5:00 p.m. at Jakes (changed to this week due to Spring Break)
HLA Friday Social join in conversation and networking
Saturday, March 28 to Wednesday, April 1: Roberto Lopez and graduate students
Madeline Olberg and Garrett Owen will be attending the 3rd Annual e-GRO Diagnostic

Grower Tour sponsored by Virginia Tech. The e-GRO tour is designed to build graduate
student (Purdue, Virginia Tech, University of Georgia, Cornell, Iowa State, North Carolina
State and Michigan State) extension educator and specialist, and grower diagnostic tool and
skills. In all, the Purdue group will visit 12 growers in Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia and
Virginia.
SAVE THE DATE:
The Landscape Architecture department will be celebrating its 50 th Anniversary on April 18,
2015.
The itinerary is now posted on our website: http://hort.purdue.edu/LA50