By hitching horticulture to health care, we can help heal the world while we feed it. Doctors alone cannot reverse the astonishing current state of affairs: Globally, we spend more treating diet-related disease than we do producing food. I ... READ MORE
Category: 4-H & Youth
On August 22, we begin a new year of delivering on our oldest mission. We make perhaps our farthest-reaching impact through teaching because in so doing we prepare others to make great impact. Every instructor as well as every staff member ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, Curriculum, EVENTS, NATURAL RESOURCES, UF/IFAS
Congratulations to an Extension legend. As a high school student, John Woeste had no specific aspirations beyond graduation until a 4-H program brought him to the University of Kentucky campus for a week. He was repeatedly told he would be ... READ MORE
Category: 4-H & Youth, Academics, AGRICULTURE, EVENTS, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS ExtensionPeople have an appetite for science that improves their lives no matter what language they speak. In the last two years, Hardee County Extension Director Jonael Bosques, John Diaz and the CAFÉ Latino team have demonstrated that more than ... READ MORE
Category: 4-H & Youth, AGRICULTURE, NATURAL RESOURCES, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS ExtensionIn all the traveling I’ve done in my career, I’ve never been greeted with finish-line tape, “Chariots of Fire” playing on a public address system, a 4-H’er hanging a medal around my neck and a state map cake with a different color ... READ MORE
Category: 4-H & Youth, AGRICULTURE, EVENTS, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
The UF/IFAS team that has released more than 250 fruit, vegetable and other plant cultivars in the past decade is getting even stronger. Seven budding scientists from around the world arrived in Florida in August to work with Plant Breeders ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, Agribusiness, AGRICULTURE, Crops, Curriculum, Fruits & Vegetables, Horticulture, UF/IFAS
Cris Arellano Jr. loved Holly, and that’s why he helped his dad cut out her heart and lungs for lab testing. He did not want his heifer’s death to be in vain. He wanted to know what caused it, and, more importantly, he wanted other people ... READ MORE
Category: 4-H & Youth, Academics, AGRICULTURE, Clubs & Volunteers, Livestock, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS ExtensionPeter Bostanescu has spent a career’s worth of time tending to the garden at the UF/IFAS Marion County Extension Office. He can’t recall exactly when he got his 30-year plaque for his service as a Master Gardener Volunteer. The memory, ... READ MORE
Category: 4-H & Youth, AGRICULTURE, Community Volunteers, HOME LANDSCAPES, Horticulture, UF/IFAS Extension, Volunteer/TrainingOne of the VP’s main jobs is to get the resources our faculty and staff need to do theirs. I love doing this. Asking for funding is an opportunity to tell the story of the men and women of UF/IFAS making Florida and the world a better place. ... READ MORE
Category: 4-H & Youth, AGRICULTURE, Invasive Species, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
When Miles Edward Groover retired as an Extension agent in Jefferson County in 1957, it was significant enough to warrant mention in the Chicago Defender. Groover was among the first Black Extension agents in Florida. He grew up in an era ... READ MORE
Category: 4-H & Youth, AGRICULTURE, Community Volunteers, Crops, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension