In 2020, the Kerr Center horticulture program trialed several varieties of cherry tomato from the Sun series, indoors in self-wicking containers. This report contains the results of that trial.

In this short video, David Redhage recounts the Kerr Center’s work developing cold frames to enhance production during climate extremes.

Education / Horticulture Program Manager Karlee Pruitt’s master’s thesis project tested biopesticides in high-tunnel plasticulture strawberries.

The horticulture program is starting seeds, building a low-cost hydroponics system, and waiting for the soil to dry out enough to build raised beds.

The Choctaw Nation hosted one of the Kerr Center’s popular hoop house workshops at its Community Center in Poteau on October 7. The workshop treated participants to a hands-on experience assembling an affordable, 1,700 square-foot hoop house in under three hours. (Many hands, prior preparation, and experienced educators made this timing possible, but a pair…