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Protecting Our Pets

by Jackie Lebouitz and Maria Portelos-Rometo

April 25, 2024

Our pets are precious to us, and their safety should always be a priority. Follow these 10 tips to help keep your pet healthy and safe. You can click on each tip to learn more. Tip #1: Prevent heartworm. Tip #2: Use pet-safe scents. ... READ MORE

Category: Home Management, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Extension, Work & Life
Tags: Bird, Cat, Chemicals, Disease, Dog, Essential Oils, Ferret, Food, Friends, Furry, Heartworm, Pet Safety, Pets, Pgm_Chemicals, Plants, Prevention, Scents, Toxic, Xylitol

Aging Healthy: Slipping Into Sound Sleep

by Maria Portelos-Rometo

April 25, 2024

In our last Aging Healthy post, we discussed making healthy food choices and briefly looked at some healthy eating patterns. Today’s post will focus on sleep and what we can do for a good night’s rest. Perhaps many of you have found ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition, Work & Life
Tags: Aging, Aging Healthy, AgingHealthy, Health, Pgm_FCS, Rest, Senior, Sleep

Aging Healthy: Making Smart Food Choices

by Maria Portelos-Rometo

April 23, 2024

In our last Aging Healthy post, we talked about physical activity, its benefits and how to be successful in your activity routine. In this post we will take a look at making smart food choices. Do you ever get overwhelmed with all the different ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition, Work & Life
Tags: Aging, Aging Healthy, AgingHealthy, Decision, Health, Pgm_FCS, Senior

Aging Healthy: Checking Our Physical Health and Activity

by Maria Portelos-Rometo

April 18, 2024

In our last Aging Healthy post, we introduced the behaviors that are part of healthy aging: being physically active, food choices, sleep, quitting unhealthy habits, and visiting your healthcare provider. There is a lot of information to cover ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition, Work & Life
Tags: Activity, Aging, Aging Healthy, AgingHealthy, Health, Pgm_FCS, Physical, Senior

Aging Healthy: What Can We Control?

by Maria Portelos-Rometo

April 16, 2024

Have you ever opened a magazine or turned on the television only to be bombarded by advertisements promoting a youthful appearance and promising an active lifestyle with a pill? Do those lotions, creams, and pills create the fountain of ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition, Work & Life
Tags: Aging, Aging Healthy, AgingHealthy, Health, Pgm_FCS

Low-Maintenance Landscaping: Succulents

by Jackie Lebouitz, Forest Hecker and Ashley Ellis

April 16, 2024

Low-Maintenance Succulents Succulents are plants with thick leaves that easily retain water, making them well-adapted to drought-like conditions. They can add interesting textures and forms to the typical landscape, and some residents even ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, UF/IFAS Extension, Water
Tags: Edible, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Landscaping, Low, Maintenance, Native, Pgm_Water, Pollinators, Use, Water

Dream of Being a Farmer? Register by April 21 for $50 discount on Small Farm Start-up School

by Rod Greder

April 10, 2024

Take a serious step forward in becoming a farmer with our eight-week series that covers all aspects of starting a farm business, including market research, business planning, production, pricing, sales, marketing, legal and regulatory. Guest ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Farm Management
Tags: Agribusiness, Farm, Farmers, Pgm_Ag, Small Farm

4-H Youth Grow Radishes and Create Compost

by Randy Penn

April 5, 2024

From seed to salad and beyond, radishes have been big this year at UF/IFAS Extension Sarasota County. It started with our 4-H youth development program. Each year, our 4-H program partners with the school gardens program, the Sarasota County ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Conservation
Tags: 4-H, Compost, Composting, Pgm_Waste, Radish

Please welcome our newest green business partner, Sarasota Green Group

by Randy Penn

April 5, 2024

Sarasota Green Group is a company that believes you shouldn’t have to choose between products that work and products that are safe for people, pets and the planet. Our team proudly manufactures pesticides using only safe ingredients like sea ... READ MORE

Category: Work & Life
Tags: Business Recycling, Green Business, Pgm_SolidWaste, Pgm_Waste

Extension, County Volunteers Honored at Ceremony

by kgeis

April 5, 2024

UF/IFAS Extension Sarasota County honored a suite of high-performing volunteers at a March 19 ceremony, ahead of global volunteer month in April. At the event, held in the Sarasota County Commission chambers and including volunteers with ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Community Volunteers, UF/IFAS Extension, Work & Life
Tags: 4-H Volunteers, Master Gardener Volunteer, Pgm_Admin, Service, Volunteer

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