The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture explores and cultivates alternatives that secure healthier people and landscapes in Iowa and the nation.
Iowa-fresh lettuce -- in November?
Monday, November 28, 2011
Ajay Nair, new assistant professor in horticulture at Iowa State, is looking at ways to extend the growing season for specific food crops in Iowa. Here he is harvesting butterhead lettuce November 23 at the ISU Hort Farm north of Ames. The crop was planted October 3 in an unheated high tunnel where air temperature at harvest was still a comfortable 65 degrees. The Leopold Center is sponsoring a portion of Nair’s work to expand local food production.
Watch video about this experiment [ISU Extension and Outreach website]
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