Sometimes simply asking for help can change everything. Say you’ve started a garden and it’s not thriving. You’ve checked out all the books from the library, logged hours on the internet, watched the gardening programs on TV, but nothing ... READ MORE
Category: Smith-Lever, UF/IFAS Extension
Marineland will be buzzing with college students this weekend, but not the kind that are partying on the beach over Spring Break: March 7-8 marks the 7th Annual UF Bee College at the Whitney Marine Laboratory in St. Augustine. Bee College is ... READ MORE
Category: Smith-Lever, UF/IFAS Communications, UF/IFAS Extension
February 24 through March 1 is Florida Saves Week. A partnership between UF/IFAS Extension and the Florida Department of Financial Services, and with partial funding from Bank of America, Florida Saves is part of a nationwide education program ... READ MORE
Category: Smith-Lever, UF/IFAS Communications
For its first fifty years, there were two extension services in Florida—one for whites and one for African-Americans. The South had been racially segregated since the 1870s, the end of the reconstruction period following the Civil War. ... READ MORE
Category: Smith-Lever, UF/IFAS Extension
A set of 8 UF/IFAS Extension table top displays have been developed and are first being featured at the Florida State Fair starting February 6th. An Extension fact sheet was designed to be placed in the brochure holder mounted on each of the ... READ MORE
Category: EVENTS, Smith-Lever, UF/IFAS Communications, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Graphics
Extension touches so many aspects of our lives today because it was born in an era of great uncertainty, not only about food and agriculture, but about the quality of life for millions of rural families. In the decades following the Civil ... READ MORE
Category: Smith-Lever, UF/IFAS Extension
The Cooperative Extension Service was established in 1914 to address a specific problem: how to package the research and education of America's land-grant universities and deliver it to the people. Universities published their information, but ... READ MORE
Category: EVENTS, Smith-Lever
Few things embody our hopes for the future better than planting a tree. That idea of a simple act making life better for future generations is at the heart of Arbor Day, which we celebrate in Florida the third Friday of January (the 17th this ... READ MORE
Category: Smith-Lever
1920s-1960s 4-H continued to grow in Florida throughout the 20th century, developing many of the features commonly associated with the 4-H clover. School club programs were conducted by agricultural Extension agents teaching projects in agronomy, ... READ MORE
Category: Smith-Lever