Tapping Farm Productivity’s Full Potential
Mar 5, 2024
Nexus Research Explores Readily Available Resources That Enhance ResultsBiochar- Anaerobic Digestion of Food WasteFood waste contains a variety of sub...
Exploring Feasible and Sustainable Solutions for Appalachian Farmers
Sep 25, 2023
Nexus Project Experiments Continue to Advance Agricultural Innovations1. Biochar Preparation: Wet Biochar CrushingBiochar particle size has a gr...
Nexus Group Furthers Study in Biochar, Anaerobic Digestion, and Pilot System
Feb 1, 2023
Last semester, Nexus served App State and the greater community as a center for education, research, and outreach. A total of 16.5 hours of field days...
Nexus Group Continues to Boost Greenhouse Systems Efficiencies
Aug 15, 2022
The Nexus group has successfully carried out several projects to improve the energy efficiency of the high-tunnel greenhouse. The team improved ...
Reinventing heated greenhouses for the High Country
Jan 24, 2022
Project outcomes from the 2019 Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SSARE) On-Farm grant to the Nexus team "reinvent the heated gr...
NEXUS Group Launches Two Research Projects at Existing Facility
May 11, 2021
The Nexus group launched two research projects this year at their existing facility located at the Watauga County landfill. The team is working on an ...
Second Year of NEXUS Pilot System Operations at Partner Farms Successful
Aug 28, 2019
SummaryThe Nexus team continues its work designing and evaluating technological solutions to extend the growing season for small-scale farmers in Sout...
Pilot Systems Successful at Cooperative Farms
Dec 4, 2018
The first round (2018 spring) of pilot system operations at our cooperating farms was successful. Against The Grain (ATG) farm produced more than 30 b...
NEXUS research project cuts by half local farm's greenhouse energy consumption
Jul 18, 2018
Dr. Ok-Youn Yu, associate professor and assistant chair in Appalachian State University’s Department of Sustainable Technology and the Built Environ...
An Innovative Biochar System
Jun 7, 2018
The kiln at Against the Grain Farm in Zionville, N.C., is fired, turning biomass — wood, sorghum stalks, and animal bones — into biochar, a soil a...