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Temas de mayo y junio: la rabia, semillas de calabaza, el caracol cola de cuerno y el riego de jardines

by Heidy Ramirez
July 10, 2023

Durante mayo y junio fueron publicados cuatro interesantes temas en español en AskIfas. A continuación, un breve resumen de cada uno con el link directo a su versión web para ampliar la lectura, con su respectivo formato PDF para descargar ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Home Landscapes, Natural Resources, Pests & Disease
Tags: Agricultura, Agua, Ask IFAS, Enfermedades, Español, Especies Invasivas, Extension, Florida
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Jax Native Park Turns 100!

by Duval MGV
July 10, 2023

100 years ago, in 1923, the incredibly forward-thinking members of the Avondale Garden Circle began planting native species in a park that the City of Jacksonville set aside in the 1921 plat of the Avondale neighborhood.  Their goal was to ... READ MORE

Category: Community Volunteers, Conservation, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Recreation
Tags: Florida Native Plant Society, Ixia Chapter, Jax Native Park, Native Northeast Florida Plants, Native Park

How Complicated is Permitting a Living Shoreline? It Depends!

by Mandy Baily
July 6, 2023

"It Depends"  Have you ever asked a question about permitting along a shoreline and heard the answer “Well, it depends”? Well, it does! It depends on whether the land or water jurisdiction is private, state, or federally managed. Furthermore, ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine, Conservation, Natural Resources, Water
Tags: Erosion, Erosion Control, Living Shoreline, Permitting, Pgm_Marine, Shoreline

How it Happened: The Stern Learning Center and Scholarship Endowments

by IFAS Advancement
July 6, 2023

Roland Stern was born to be outside. His office was the green fields of his family farm; his conference room a timber clearing in the thick pine forests of north central Florida. He spent as much time sitting on his tractor as most people ... READ MORE

Category: Forests, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS
Tags: Austin Cary Forest, Endowment, Ffgs, Forestry, Go Greater, How It Happened, Lucinda Stern, Scholarship, Stern Learning Center, Timber, UF-IFAS, University Of Florida

Success story: Native Plant Garden at Lettuce Lake Park Provides for Wildlife

by Tia SilvasyAvatar photo
July 5, 2023

We did it! Thank you to the Florida Master Gardener Program Volunteers, Suncoast Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society and Hillsborough County Park staff who came out on June 28th to plant 60 native plants of 20 different species. Our ... READ MORE

Category: , Conservation, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Extension, Wildlife
Tags: Butterfly, Central Florida, Conservation, Florida, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Hillsborough County, Landscaping, Master Gardener, Native Plant, Tampa Bay, Tsilvasy, UF/IFAS Extension, Wildflowers

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