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UF Eyes Butterfly Pea as Natural Food-Color Source

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It provides a natural food coloring. It gives nurseries another ornamental to grow and sell, and it might provide health benefits to those who eat it with their food. It is the Butterfly Pea, and… Read More

Industry donors help cultivate emerging Florida crops

by Brad Buck

Posted: April 17, 2018

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — About five years ago, University of Florida environmental horticulture assistant professor Brian Pearson started growing hops in his backyard. Finding success, he and two other UF researchers are exploring whether they can grow the crop… Read More

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