What We Do

• Enhance Indiana stakeholder's understanding of horticulture issues.
• Support business and production practices, networking, and decision making of homeowners/gardeners commercial horticultural businesses and the turf industry.

The horticulture focus group supports the development and dissemination of resources and information relevant to consumers, gardeners, turf industry professionals, landscaping professionals, and commercial nursery and flower, fruit, and vegetable crop growers. Specialists and educators throughout the Purdue Community are members, including faculty from the Purdue departments of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Entomology, Food Science, Botany and Plant Pathology, Agricultural Economics and ANR Extension. This focus group is challenged with meeting the needs of a diverse group of stakeholders through a variety of media and methods.