Category: Work & Life
Choosing Healthy Meals
August 8, 2017
Choosing Healthy Meals As You Get Older: 10 Healthy Eating Tips for People Age 65+ 1 - DRINK PLENTY OF LIQUIDS With age, you may lose some of your sense of thirst. Drink water often. Low-fat or fat-free milk or 100% juice also helps ... READ MORE
Category: Work & LifeTags: Healthy Meals, MyPlate, Senior Citizen
Tampa Farmer’s Markets
August 8, 2017
Every year, the first full week in August marks National Farmer’s Market week. What a great time to check out the markets we have available here in Tampa Bay. Farmer’s markets are a great place to access affordable fresh foods as well as ... READ MORE
Category: Events, Health & Nutrition, Home ManagementTags: Farmer's Market, Hillsborough County
#Citizenscience redux and video
August 7, 2017
I took on an #extension fellowship in 2015 on citizen science, to promote its use throughout #coopext. This continues to pay dividends, as I am now in the process of taking on my first PhD student advisee, who wants to study citizen science! ... READ MORE
Category: Community Volunteers, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS ExtensionTags: Ag-STEM, Citizen Science, Public Engagement With Science, Science Outreach
Keep an Eye on Your Eye Health – August is National Eye Exam Month
August 5, 2017
Most of us are willing to go to the doctor or the dentist, which are both part of taking care of our health. However, do you go to the eye doctor? If not, you definitely should add it to your healthy lifestyle regime. Eye exams at every age ... READ MORE
Category: Work & LifeTags: Children, Eye Disease, Eye Exams, Eye Health, Family, Family Nutrition And Health, Great Vision, Health And Safety, July-September 2017, National Eye Exam Month, Nutrition, Panhandle-livingwell, Parenting
Hurricanes and Trees Can Mix Better Than You Might Think
August 4, 2017
Establishing a wind resistant tree canopy is the best insurance when it comes to hurricanes and trees. Trees vary in their strength, generally speaking trees with slow grow are much stronger than fast growing trees. Data collected after numerous ... READ MORE
Category: Disaster Preparation, Work & LifeTags: Canopy, Damage, Florida, Hurricanes, Pasco, Preparation, Trees
Four Steps to Financial Well-Being
August 4, 2017
Track Cash Flow: You work hard for your money so don’t let it dribble away. Start by looking at essential expenses such as rent/mortgage, automobile payments, insurance, utilities and mobile phone charges. Next look at expenses that don’t ... READ MORE
Category: Money MattersTags: Debt Management, Personal Finance, Saving Money
World leading phosphorous experts publish book
August 4, 2017
A UF professor and two colleagues have published a book in which the three scientists offer the world’s most innovative techniques for managing an essential nutrient in food production soils. With the world’s population expected to reach ... READ MORE
Category: Health & Nutrition, UF/IFAS Research,
Storm prep: Filling the food chest
August 4, 2017
Buy early and stock up. Sage advice, when it comes to disaster preparations... especially stocking up on food. Whether you heeded that advice or not, there's never a bad time to check your supplies. That's especially true as we near the "season ... READ MORE
Category: Disaster Preparation, Work & LifeTags: Disaster, FCS, Hurricane, Pgm_FCS, Preparation, Prepare, Storm, StormPrep, Supplies, Supply