Category: Horticulture

Water Wednesdays Recap – Hydroponics

by Yilin
December 21, 2020

What is a hydroponic system? How does it differ from traditional growing of plants? How can we try it at home? Last Water Wednesday, we invited the Sustainable Ag and Food Systems Agent in Seminole County, Dr. Morgan Pinkerton to give an introduction ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, Fruits & Vegetables, HOME LANDSCAPES, Horticulture, Water
Tags: Food Systems, Hydroponics, Morgan Pinkerton, UF IFAS Extension Water Agents, Urban Agriculture, Urban Food Systems, Water, Water RSA, Water Wednesdays, Yilin Zhuang

Hops Testing Alternatives After Alpha Analytics Discontinues Services

by Jim Davis
February 9, 2018

This morning, Yakima Chief – Hopunion announced that Alpha Analytics, a popular hop testing company, will no longer be accepting samples from outside producers. This is a setback to the burgeoning Florida hops industry and the brewers who ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, AGRICULTURE, Crops, Horticulture

Worker Protection Standard – Train the Trainer Day 2/8/18

by Jim Davis
February 9, 2018

EPA’s revised Worker Protection Standard (WPS) requires persons who conduct pesticide safety training for farmworkers (people involved in the production of agricultural plants) and pesticide handlers (people who mix, load, or apply crop pesticides) ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Crops, Events, Horticulture

Your Crops Are Colder Than You (And It’s Not The Jacket)

by Matt Smith
February 5, 2018

Hot air rises and cool air falls. Its kind of remarkable how much our lives as we know it depend on this, as this property of physics is one reason we have weather at all. During the winter, the thing to watch out for whenever ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Crops, Farm Management, Horticulture
Tags: Cold Protection, Freeze Protection, Temperature, Weather, Winter

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