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.
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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Jeremy Pickens, assistant extension professor at Auburn University, spread holiday cheer by donating 200 Christmas trees through the Trees for Troops program
Philanthropy fuels experiential learning initiatives at Auburn, such as FoodU, which has garnered national attention and was recently featured in an episode of Alabama Public Television’s Spotlight on Agriculture.
Right in the heart of central Alabama, research is conducted throughout the year to find ways to protect one of the state’s most precious commodities — peaches.
