News : Stockbridge School of Agriculture : UMass Amherst

Stockbridge Helps UMass Earn Green Grounds Gold Certification

Spring flowers in front of Stockbridge Hall

To attain Gold certification, universities must demonstrate that they are actively working to increase the presence of native plants on campus, reducing water use through landscape management and replacing synthetic lawn and...

September 27, 2024

Floral Design Course Featured on Slow Flowers Summit Podcast

Stockbridge professor and sustainable florist Sarah Berquist was interviewed about her popular Retail Floral Design course. The video features several Stockbridge students, and a sneak peek at our new floral drying room in Stockbridge Hall.

September 17, 2024

$1 Million Grant Funds Dr. Keiser's Research Into Forest Carbon Cycling

Dr. Ashley Keiser and Eastern Hemlock affected by woolly adelgid insects

Dr. Keiser's team seeks to understand how forest soil microbes react to an invasive insect threatening Eastern hemlock trees. The project will open research opportunities for students while adding cutting-edge content to her classes.

September 16, 2024

Dr. Francis X. Mangan (1958-2024): Grower, Teacher, and Friend to Immigrant Communities

Dr. Francis X. Mangan, known to students and colleagues as “Frank,” passed away on August 12^th, at age 66.

August 30, 2024

Students Taught By Top 100 Scholar in 3 Fields

Graduate and undergraduate students at Stockbridge and UMass can take classes with Distinguished Professor of Environmental and Soil Chemistry, and Director of the Stockbridge School of Agriculture, Baoshan Xing, ranked #12 in plant science, #17 for environmental...

July 23, 2024

Students Eagerly Transfer to New Applied Plant & Soil Sciences Major

Stockbridge School of Agriculture has merged three bachelor of science programs—Horticultural Science, Plant & Soil Sciences, and Turfgrass Science & Management—into one comprehensive major in Applied Plant & Soil Sciences. The new major offers a stronger foundation in the sciences alongside increased flexibility to select courses from across the Stockbridge course catalog.

July 2, 2024

Stockbridge Celebrates Associate Degree Graduates at 102nd Commencement Ceremony

18 members of the Stockbridge School of Agriculture Class of 2024 each received associate of science degrees in one of five majors: Arboriculture and Community Forest Management, Landscape Contracting, Sustainable Food and Farming, Sustainable Horticulture and Turfgrass Management.

May 30, 2024

Stockbridge Students Score Victories At National Collegiate Landscape Competition

Stockbridge students at a landscaping competition in Utah

Who in their right mind goes to the snowy mountains of Utah when all their friends are thinking about Spring Break in Florida? Success-minded Stockbridge and UMass students seeking to impress employers, that's who.

April 9, 2024

Alumni Buy Local Farm With Help From UMass Loan

Two recent alumni of our Sustainable Food & Farming program have purchased Kitchen Garden Farm in nearby Sunderland, with help from the Lotta Agricultural Fund administered for the benefit of UMass graduates. Max Traunstein and Lilly Israel are 2014 graduates of the Sustainable Food & Farming program at Stockbridge School of Agriculture, and both have been working at Kitchen Garden Farm for several years. Both Max and Lilly credit their mutual love of farming, and their confidence to take on such a big project, to experiences in their college years at Stockbridge, and on the UMass Student

March 4, 2024

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