About

In November of 1964, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia purchased 89.91 acres of land from the estate of Mrs. Cleo J. Durham in Watkinsville, (Oconee County) Georgia. This plot of land, located approximately 10 minutes from the Athens main campus, would become home to the University of Georgia’s Plant Sciences Farm under the auspices of the Crop and Soil Sciences department. Several years later, the Plant Sciences Farm would move to a larger property on Snows Mill Road, also in Oconee County, and the Durham property was transferred to the Horticulture Department. Today, the Durham Horticulture Research Farm comprises just over 93 acres of land, and is used by a diverse array of researchers and graduate students in horticulture, plant pathology, entomology, food science, genetics, and crop and soil sciences.

Some of the major components of our research include watermelons, tomatoes, peaches, muscadine and bunch grapes, tea, hops, woody and herbaceous ornamentals, controlled environment production, organic management of horticulture crops, and honey bee protection and management.

Current and historical environmental conditions can be accessed with our online weather station.