Extending Education into Food Deserts: Extension Goes Mobile with Vegetable Gardening Lisa Hickey, University of Florida IFAS, Manatee County Extension Urban Horticulture Agent Situation: When the Urban Horticulture Program noticed low ... READ MORE
Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Health & Nutrition, Horticulture
Whether you garden in your backyard or patio, or just enjoy fresh, local food, One Seed is for you. One Seed is a shared, edible-gardening experience designed to build a community around food. Open to anyone, this new program launches this ... READ MORE
Category: Fruits & VegetablesBy Les Harrison Wakulla County Extension Director Vegetable gardening has many highly desirable benefits. These range from it being a good source of exercise, an opportunity to produce fresh produce which may be ... READ MORE
Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes
Now that fall has arrived, the farm crew, faculty and staff of our strawberry program are hard at work preparing for another strawberry season in central Florida. It's one of the highlights of the year for our center when we get those bare ... READ MORE
Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, , Crops, Fruits & Vegetables, Horticulture, UF/IFAS
As students at C.A. Weis Elementary School return for the new school year, they’ll notice something different about the area next to the outdoor space where physical education classes are usually held. Thanks to the University of Florida Institute ... READ MORE
Category: Community Volunteers, Fruits & Vegetables, Health & Nutrition, Home Landscapes, Relationships & Family, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Extension, Work & LifeWould you like to grow more of your own food? If so, you may be interested in an upcoming gardening seminar being offered at the UF/IFAS Extension Office in Okaloosa County. Karen Harper and Marg Stewart, Okaloosa County Master Gardeners, will ... READ MORE
Category: Events, Fruits & Vegetables, Home LandscapesBy Les Harrison Wakulla County Extension Director As the old saying goes “August weather is fit for neither man nor beast,” and it is not making gardening a lot of fun either. High humidity, 90 degree plus temperature, and a bumper crop ... READ MORE
Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home LandscapesBy Les Harrison, UF/IFAS Wakulla County Extension Director, and Gohar Umar, FAMU Horticulture Specialist. The summer temperatures have transformed the vegetable gardens of Wakulla County. The daily 90 degree plus thermometer readings and ... READ MORE
Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home LandscapesFlorida Blueberry Industry Blueberry growers in central and south Florida mostly utilize the highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum). It does not require many chill hours (the necessary number of hours where temperatures fall between 32 and ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, Fruits & Vegetables, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS ResearchBy Les Harrison, UF/IFAS Wakulla County Extension Director and Gohar Umar, FAMU Horticulture Extension Agent The cold temperatures in Wakulla County’s latest winter were few and relatively mild. The near triple digit readings this week ... READ MORE
Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes