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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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.
The College of Agriculture and Campus Dining now have six container farms in operation year-round in their vertical farming operation, which can yield 25 times more than field production.
Alumnus Matthew Capps, who earned a bachelor’s degree in ornamental horticulture and a Master of Landscape Architecture, is the new director of Alabama State Parks.
