The UF/IFAS Extension St. Lucie County partners with the WLX TV – the St. Lucie County School Board’s education channel on production of TV shows for the 2019-20 school year. You can watch those shows… Read More
UF/IFAS Extension has hand washing posters available for download: Proper Hand Washing for School Children (1.38MB PDF) Proper Hand Washing for Elders (1.22MB PDF) Proper Hand Washing for Caregivers (1.38MB PDF) Proper Hand Washing for… Read More
Only 17 states in the nation require high school students to take a course in personal finance, according to a report from 2016. Florida is not one of them. So how did you learn to… Read More
SEA TURTLE NESTING SEASON MARCH 1 – NOVEMBER 15 St Lucie County asks residents, businesses and visitors to help conserve Sea Turtles by practicing sea turtle friendly practices such as proper beachfront lighting. Improper beachfront… Read More
Another Florida Friendly Yard in St. Lucie County Students from the new 2018 Master Gardener Training class had the chance to spend a cool Saturday morning recently, recognizing homeowner and Master Gardener, Heather Furnari’s, beautiful… Read More
Florida is home to 46 species of native snakes (Johnson and McGarrity 2016). Four venomous species of snakes can commonly be found on the Treasure Coast (Johnson and Main 2020). Learn more about the snakes… Read More
Learn about uses and assembly of rain barrels by watching the video below. Be sure to follow all landscaping ordinances in your community. This is brought to you by the UF/IFAS Extension offices in St…. Read More
Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis) is a perennial herbaceous plant in the mint family Lamiaceae and native to south-central Europe, the Mediterranean Basin, Iran, and Central Asia, but now naturalized in the Americas and elsewhere. The… Read More
Buddha hand is a type of citrus. It is a very strange and wonderful tree that is better known to most consumers in its preserved rather than fresh form. Citron is its another name; however,… Read More
Have you ever asked yourself this question? Why do we really graft vegetables such as tomato while we can simply plant it directly to the soil? Let’s go back to vegetable grafting history. Vegetable grafting… Read More
Scales are small, stationary, shell-like insects on leaf, stems or fruit surfaces. They are flat or pear-shaped, white or grey. There are several kinds of scales that can be found on the upper or under… Read More
St. Lucie County in partnering with University of Florida/IFAS and Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services will offer free COVID-19 testing at St. Lucie County Fairgrounds for agricultural community in St. Lucie and neighboring… Read More
Most likely you have watched “The Martian” movie in which Mark Watney grow potato in the Martian (Mars) soil inside the controlled environment made by plastic. In a first glance, it seems very fictional movie,… Read More
Relationships are wonderful and difficult at the same time. When it comes to love and money, sometimes our judgement can become clouded. Our emotions can override our rationality or our trust becomes misplaced. While we… Read More
Mango sooty mold (Meliola mangiferae) is one of the species of fungi that grow on honeydew results from interactions among sap-feeding insects such as soft scale (wax, green and cottony cushion scales), mealybugs, aphids, whiteflies… Read More
