Andrews University Department of Sustainable Agriculture

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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
Dairy 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

We got 5 new bunnies for the Agriculture Education Center this fall. One of our Animal Science students, Sarah, is hold...
10/23/2026

We got 5 new bunnies for the Agriculture Education Center this fall. One of our Animal Science students, Sarah, is holding Blue Bonnet and her daughter, Pepsi. Blue Bonnet with her previous owner, won the Rabbit Costume contest at the Berrien County Youth Fair this past August. Sarah is also holding the "S'mores Girls" Graham Cracker, Marshmallow, and Hershey." The younger rabbits were all born this last summer and we're working to get them used to being handled. Too much cuteness!

On Saturday afternoon Sept. 26, we had our annual Open House at the Ag Ed Center for Alumni Homecoming. https://www.andr...
10/07/2026

On Saturday afternoon Sept. 26, we had our annual Open House at the Ag Ed Center for Alumni Homecoming. https://www.andrews.edu/alumni/homecoming/
Visitors were able to see the animals we currently have for the students to learn from and also learn how the plans for the Horticulture Renewal Project is progressing. Two of our 20th anniversary graduates, Jolene Birney O'Brien and Kathleen Halye Delgado, came back campus. It was great to catch up with everyone who stopped by!

On Friday Sept. 25, many of the Lake Union Pathfinders who were having their Camporee at the Berrien County Youth Fairgr...
10/03/2026

On Friday Sept. 25, many of the Lake Union Pathfinders who were having their Camporee at the Berrien County Youth Fairgrounds, came to the Andrews campus to work on various honor badges. We taught honors in Poultry and in Seeds. About 120 Pathfinders earned their honors in one or both of these. It was great seeing so many great folks enjoying our campus (and the terrific weather)! Thank you to Elena Foll and Nate Reid for these photos.
If you'd like to know what is required of the Seeds honor, check out this link: https://www.gcyouthministries.org/honor/seeds/
If you'd like to know what is in the Poultry honor, check this link: https://www.gcyouthministries.org/honor/poultry/

The Soil Science class has been working to get a plot of land ready for planting sweet onions and they were able to get ...
09/20/2026

The Soil Science class has been working to get a plot of land ready for planting sweet onions and they were able to get them into the ground this past week. This is one of the early steps in developing a sweet onion that can withstand cold winters. Dr. Ernie Semotiuk has been working with sweet onions for decades and knows the process for doing this. These onions are ones he hand-selected from his own genetic plant-stock in Walla Walla, WA. We are excited that we're on the way to developing an "AU Sweet Onion"!

09/20/2026

Fiona exploring the barn on her second day of life!

Last Monday (Sept. 14) was a busy day for us at the Ag Ed Center. We got 7 Angus-Holstein cross calves from a local dair...
09/20/2026

Last Monday (Sept. 14) was a busy day for us at the Ag Ed Center. We got 7 Angus-Holstein cross calves from a local dairy farm for the sophomore students to raise. Here they are in the trailer feeling bewildered and getting ready to start their new lives with us!
Also one of our resident cows, Anthea, had her calf, Fiona, that day, too. Anthea is an Angus-Holstein cross cow that we got 2 years ago as a bottle calf for our students. We bred her to a Dutch-belted sire so little Fiona looks like an Oreo cookie!

Last Thursday Sept. 10 was Change Day at Andrews University. Our students went to the Therapeutic Equestrian Center (TE...
09/12/2026

Last Thursday Sept. 10 was Change Day at Andrews University. Our students went to the Therapeutic Equestrian Center (TEC) near Buchanan, MI to help out. (https://www.facebook.com/TherapeuticEquestrianCenter/) Hillary, the barn manager, had it all organized for us to get a lot done, and we did. We cleaned dust from rafters, fans, and stalls. We scrubbed the tack with saddle soap and then oiled it. We brought in the horses from their paddocks to get ready for the lessons that afternoon. After our snack break we did landscape maintenance by weeding flower beds and planting mums. The place was all spruced up for TEC's 20th anniversary celebration on Sunday Sept. 13!

The students in Soil Science had a great lab today learning first-hand about how a subsoiler works to break-up the compa...
09/04/2026

The students in Soil Science had a great lab today learning first-hand about how a subsoiler works to break-up the compacted soil within the root zone of plants. Dr. Ernie Semotiuk led out showing how it was done and the beneficial effects.

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. 🙂

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Berrien Springs, MI
49104

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