Changing the world with a few simple plants: Natural foods pioneer Barney Feinblum plants opportunity for students through on-campus herb garden

Barney Feinblum, former CEO of Celestial Seasonings and Horizon Organic, helped launch an herb garden at Colorado State University, giving students hands-on experience with plants that shaped the natural foods industry.

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A herd with a name, a legacy with a heart: Honoring the Hutchison family and Hutchison Western at the Temple Grandin Equine Center

The Hutchison Herd at CSU’s Temple Grandin Equine Center honors the Hutchison family’s legacy, offering healing and connection through the gentle strength of therapy horses.

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Turning art into action: Piper Thyden builds future through landscape architecture

“The first time I knew I was 100 percent in the right spot was when one of my landscape architecture professors was showing us a project – beginning to end, the whole process,” she said. “The entire time I could feel that I had this stupid grin on my face because I knew that this was exactly what I wanted to do.”

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Article examines pathways to sustaining the Ogallala Aquifer region

Amy Kremen, associate director of the Irrigation Innovation Consortium in CSU’s Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, is a co-author on “Pathways to sustaining agriculture and communities in the Ogallala region,” published in the November/December 2024 issue of the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.

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Upskilling program receives new funding to continue work in 2025, beyond

Colorado State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences’ Upskilling program recently received a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to train workers in agricultural fields, particularly younger employees, on the latest technology related to irrigation, soil health, seed conditioning and food safety.

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