Tag: Sustainable Living

Master Gardeners Clean Up

Posted: August 28, 2018

Garden Clean Up Now that we are starting to loose a few minutes of daylight each day, hopefully the heat of summer is soon to go as well. We Master Gardeners cleaned up several rows… Read More

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS Teaching

Tags: agriculture, Community, Educational, Environment, environmentally friendly, Extension, Farming, Florida, Food, Garden, growing, Horticulture, Lawn & Garden, Les Harrison, Master Gardener, Master Gardeners, Natural Resources, Nature, nutrition, plants, Sustainable Living, UF/IFAS, Wakulla CED, Wakulla County, Wakulla County Extension, Wakulla Extension

Sassafras Was Once The Base For Root Beer

by Les Harrison

Posted: August 10, 2018

By, Les Harrison Sassafras Albidum Sassafras albidum is a deciduous native with a long history of multiple uses in panhandle Florida and far beyond. Leaves of this tree have turned up in the fossil record… Read More

Category: Agriculture, Conservation, Forests, Horticulture, Natural Resources, Recreation, Turf, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS Teaching

Tags: agriculture, Community, Educational, Environment, environmentally friendly, Extension, Family Youth & Community Sciences, Florida, Garden, General Information, growing, Health, Horticulture, http://www.ncsl.org/research/education/affirmative-action-overview.aspx, Landscape, Lawn & Garden, Les Harrison, Living Well In The Panhandle, local, Master Gardener, Natural Resources, Natural Wakulla, Nature, nutrition, plants, Sustainable Living, trees, UF/IFAS, wakulla, Wakulla agriculture, Wakulla CED, Wakulla County, Wakulla County Extension, Wakulla Extension

It’s not just the honeybees!

Posted: March 6, 2015

Honey bees are quite the buzz these days. Reports of population declines and the importance of their role in pollination have caught the country’s attention. The Northwest District IFAS Beekeepers’ classes have grown by leaps… Read More

Category: Natural Resources

Tags: butterflies, butterfly gardening, Environmental Education, Master Gardener, native bees, native pollinators, Panhandle Outdoors, pollination, Sustainable Living

Earthworms aren’t the only beneficial composters!

Posted: September 12, 2014

I started a little vermiculture bin year before last with one cup of red wigglers from the local bait shop. I carefully sorted my garbage so there was no grease or animal protein in the… Read More

Category: Natural Resources

Tags: Environmental Education, Master Gardener, Panhandle Outdoors, Sustainable Living, vermiculture