Gardening is America’s number one pastime and gardeners love seeing beautiful horticulture photography as well as keeping track of their gardening activities. We developed a 2015 Florida Master Gardener wall calendar that is a full-color, 12-month wall calendar…. Read More
UF/IFAS Extension county offices are part of a network reaching across the state, with contacts not only through UF/IFAS but also through the entire UF academic enterprise. What’s more, our UF/IFAS Extension county faculty members are experts at… Read More
Oranges are so closely associated with the State of Florida that it seems like they’ve always grown here in abundance. But in fact, citrus trees are not native to Florida, and the state’s $9 billion a year citrus… Read More
The goal of the award winning UF/IFAS Extension calendar is to inform legislators, community leaders and the general public of the beneficial work that UF/IFAS Extension does for the state of Florida. It accomplishes that goal in the… Read More
May 8, 2014 marks the 100th Anniversary of the Smith-Lever Act, which established America’s Cooperative Extension Service. Let’s take a brief look back at Extension’s growth and evolution in Florida, year by year. Before Extension 1862 President Abraham Lincoln… Read More
The purpose of these pamphlets was to raise awareness about the UF/IFAS Soil and Water Sciences Undergraduate specializations. These specializations were designed to give the student a strong background in soil and water science with a core of… Read More
February 24 through March 1 is Florida Saves Week. A partnership between UF/IFAS Extension and the Florida Department of Financial Services, and with partial funding from Bank of America, Florida Saves is part of a nationwide education program… Read More
Extension touches so many aspects of our lives today because it was born in an era of great uncertainty, not only about food and agriculture, but about the quality of life for millions of rural families. In the… Read More
The Cooperative Extension Service was established in 1914 to address a specific problem: how to package the research and education of America’s land-grant universities and deliver it to the people. Universities published their information, but at the turn of the last century,… Read More
One of Extension’s little-known accomplishments is its role in bringing electricity to the rural areas of Florida. In the mid-1930s, only about 12 percent of rural America had access to centralized electricity–in Florida, only 8 percent of farms and ranches were electrified…. Read More
