Tips/Blogs from Kerr Center Staff

The online trainings that COVID has forced upon us can reach larger audiences more cost-effectively, but hands-on still has huge advantages.

This simple modification to the Kerr Center’s chicken tractor plans can save plenty of stooping and backache when tending your poultry flock.

Here are the results of our preliminary trial of pepper production in wicking containers from the 2020 growing season.

COVID-19 adds to the list of factors leading toward an increase in automation in agriculture, both at the Kerr Center and around the world.

The Kerr Center horticulture program reports first observations from a preliminary test on a home built hydroponics system.

The Kerr Center’s work with elderberries helps illustrate the importance of long-term research trials for sustainable agriculture.

Landscaping with native plants at the Kerr Center office has taught us to have patience! The landscape takes time to naturalize and attract pollinators.

Despite the COVID-19 shutdown and a string of downpours in this wet spring, work at the ranch continues. Stay tuned for the resumption of workshops!

Creating pollinator habitat can be as simple as a tweak to how you mow your lawn. Start mowing for pollinators and watch the wildflowers blossom!

Visit Okies for Monarchs’ website for a list of nurseries and seed houses that are still open for business. This way, you can do your part to keep the COVID-19 pandemic from becoming yet another factor in pollinator declines.