Tag: UF/IFAS Extension Manatee County

Answers from UF/IFAS experts as pollen blankets your car and makes you sneeze

by Brad Buck
March 13, 2024

Achoo! It’s pollen season. You might sneeze, and you might have to wash your vehicle to remove the green, dust-like coating that comes from plants. We asked Lynn Barber, the Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ agent at UF/IFAS Extension ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition, Home Landscapes
Tags: Allergies, Alyssa Vinson, Lynn Barber, Oak Trees, Plants, Pollen, Sneezing, Tips, Trees, UF/IFAS Extension Hillsborough County, UF/IFAS Extension Manatee County

UF experts give tips to lower stress during holidays, starting with Thanksgiving dinner

by Brad Buck
November 15, 2023

Do you look forward to eating Thanksgiving dinner with your family? So much anticipation. Lots of cooking, eating and cleanup. A festive feast with loved ones – or is it? Some families have one or more relatives whose behavior can be problematic ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Avoid, Cope, Family, Friends, Heidi Radunovich, Holidays, Nelly Nelson, Stress, Thanksgiving, Tips, Travel, UF/IFAS Extension Manatee County, Youth And Community Sciences

Enjoy Florida-grown foods at Thanksgiving and through the holidays

by Brad Buck
November 7, 2023

When you’re giving thanks this Thanksgiving, consider that much of your food grew in the Sunshine State, say University of Florida experts. Those edibles include corn, potatoes, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, lettuce and tomatoes. Like many ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture
Tags: Andrea Nikolai, Bananas, Corn, Florida-grown Foods, Food, Fruits, Green Beans, Hastings Agricultural Extension Center, Holidays, Leo Hoffmann, Lettuce, Nelly Nelson, Nutrition, Pineapple, Potato Breeding, Potatoes, Research, Thanksgiving, UF/IFAS Extension Manatee County, UF/IFAS Extension Polk County, Vegetables

From her roots in Colombia, UF/IFAS Extension agent aims to help the “have-nots”

by Brad Buck
March 9, 2023

Growing up poor in Bogotá, Colombia, Nelly Nelson knows firsthand about the “haves” and “have-nots.” That’s a driving force behind her desire to help the less fortunate as the family and consumer sciences agent for UF/IFAS Extension ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Colombia, Family And Consumer Sciences, Financial Management, Food Safety, Health Eating, National Women's History Month, Nelly Nelson, SMART Couples, UF/IFAS Extension Manatee County

UF/IFAS Extension helps get food directly from farmers to customers during pandemic

by Brad Buck
April 9, 2020

As the novel coronavirus disrupts the usual methods to deliver food from farms to consumers, UF/IFAS Extension agents are helping connect growers with customers. Two such specialists are Sarah Bostick, an agriculture agent with UF/IFAS Extension ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, SFYL Hot Topic
Tags: Community Supported Agriculture, Covid-19, Customers, Farmers, Transition Sarasota, UF/IFAS Extension Manatee County, UF/IFAS Extension Sarasota County

Youth take the plunge into environmental stewardship

by Samantha Murray
May 9, 2016

Can you tell me how old a fish is just by looking at a slice of bone? That’s one question youth will learn how to answer in the Manatee Marine Explorers Day Camp created by two University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Camp, Coasts & Marine, Conservation, Natural Resources, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Extension, Wildlife
Tags: Angela Collins, Environment Hot Topic, Florida Sea Grant, Michelle Atkinson, UF/IFAS Extension Manatee County

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