Andrews University Department of Sustainable Agriculture

Andrews University Department of Sustainable Agriculture The Department of Agriculture emphasizes the utilization of environmentally sustainable practices with a focus on stewardship of the earth’s resources.

Our Department of Sustainable Agriculture emphasizes environmentally sustainable practices and has the only daily hands-on animal care at our Agriculture Education Center for undergrad Animal Science students of any college in the U.S., public or private. It offers degree programs in:

Agriculture
Animal Science
Horticulture
International Agriculture Development
With emphasis in:

Agribusiness
Dai

ry Herd Management
Environmental Landscape Design
Pre-Veterinary Medicine
Students are able to utilize the various opportunties on campus to get hands-on experience in their program, including:

Large-scale dairy and farm operation, with over 900 acres of cultivated land, and 1500-head dairy
Peach and apple orchards
Grape vineyard
10-acre vegetable farm
3,500 square feet of greenhouses
Several of the faculty are responsible for the management of the garden enterprises, so the students work experience becomes an extension of the classroom. Visit our website for more info! www.andrews.edu/agriculture

The Andrews University Alumni magazine, FOCUS, has a full-page spread of our Horticulture Renewal Plan and our Creation ...
09/01/2026

The Andrews University Alumni magazine, FOCUS, has a full-page spread of our Horticulture Renewal Plan and our Creation Care Month activities. We are honored to get so much coveted space in this publication! Check it out on pg. 7: chrome-extensio://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.andrews.edu/focus/archives/2026-2-focus-web.pdf

Last Thursday our Animal Reproduction class had a lab in caprine mammary systems. Part of the lab was to milk a goat by...
08/30/2026

Last Thursday our Animal Reproduction class had a lab in caprine mammary systems. Part of the lab was to milk a goat by hand. They ranged in the success of their efforts but they all got out some milk! Thanks to Pixie for her patience through all this. 🙂

08/23/2026

Day 4 of preparing the site for the new high-tech teaching greenhouse

08/21/2026

This is after the third day of removal of the old "solar" dairy barn. The amount of steel in it and the high value of recycled steel right now has helped us really keep down the out of pocket cost of removing this barn.

08/18/2026

Day 2 of the site preparation for the new high tech teaching greenhouse. One of the old cow barns is being removed.

Day 1 of the site preparation for the next phase of the Horticulture Renewal Plan - the removal of an old dairy barn.
08/17/2026

Day 1 of the site preparation for the next phase of the Horticulture Renewal Plan - the removal of an old dairy barn.

08/17/2026

Day 1 - site preparation for the new high-tech teaching greenhouse - removal of an old dairy barn at the Agriculture Education Center

UPDATE: We have completed the first stage of the Horticulture Renewal Plan (see a previous post below) of converting th...
08/13/2026

UPDATE: We have completed the first stage of the Horticulture Renewal Plan (see a previous post below) of converting the larger greenhouse into a cold frame. It will be used to extend the growing season in the fall and spring to allow the horticulture students to gain experience growing root crops, brassicas, and greens. (We'll continue to use the smaller "winter" greenhouse for labs and research projects.)
The video here show the greenhouse after it was cleaned up thanks to one of our alumni, Bakar, who owns Lakewood Landscaping in Berrien Center. The photos show the "soil" material from the old greenhouse being removed down to a depth of 2 feet. Then topsoil was put into it. (The removed material was not suitable for growing in.) There are a couple more photos in the Andrews Agenda https://www.andrews.edu/agenda/69471

We are excited to announce our Horticulture Renewal Plan! It will upgrade and expand our teaching and research faciliti...
08/07/2026

We are excited to announce our Horticulture Renewal Plan! It will upgrade and expand our teaching and research facilities and capacities in the plant sciences. We have already started work on the first two steps of the plan. We'll share photos and updates about this in the near future. Please see more details about it below. And share it with anyone you know who'd like to learn more about it.

This past May our department joined AU Abroad once again for a study tour of the lovely gardens in England for HORT 250 ...
07/22/2026

This past May our department joined AU Abroad once again for a study tour of the lovely gardens in England for HORT 250 History of Landscape Architecture. We had an all-girls group this time and they had a great time. They stayed at Newbold College and also helped with the restoration of the historic Moor Close gardens around the College.

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8385 Farm Oval
Berrien Springs, MI
49104

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+2694716006

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