Growing healthy food & beautiful communities
We discover and promote sustainable ways to produce healthier fruits and vegetables. We design, build and grow amazing landscapes. And we work to do all this in ways that protect and preserve the natural environments around us.
Watch to see how our work influences everything from human health and nutrition to the simple beauty and pleasure of the world around us.
As part of Auburn's FoodU program, the vertical farms are growing lettuce quicker than it can grow in the ground, providing experiential learning opportunities for students and feeding the campus community.
In this Alabama Public Television feature, learn how Food U seeks to immerse students in the food system at Auburn University.
Degree Programs
Our undergraduate and graduate programs offer science-based training in the latest, most innovative agricultural and horticultural methods, techniques and technology. Graduates of these programs lead highly profitable careers with major nurseries, landscape companies, farming operations, research institutes and academia.
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Desmond Layne, professor and head of the Department of Horticulture in the Auburn University College of Agriculture, was recently selected to receive the American Society for Horticultural Science's Outstanding Leadership and Administration Award.
Blueberries are such an important crop to Alabama producers that a group of four graduate researchers from Auburn University's College of Agriculture have chosen them as the focus of their research projects.
Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist Camila Rodrigues was recently recognized as one of the nation's top young leaders in the produce industry.
