Want to grow a vegetable garden but don’t know where to start? Raised bed gardens give you the ability to put a garden anywhere you have at least six hours of sunlight and access to water, regardless of your native soil type. See the fact sheet below (Or Click Here for the downloadable PDF version!) for tips…
This Thanksgiving Day, families and friends across the country will gather to show gratitude for our good fortune by sitting down together over a meal. Not just any meal, but a proper feast, with multiple courses, side dishes, appetizers and desserts. We tend to go all out, because Thanksgiving is a celebration of the bounty…
The Swamp Sunflower Helianthus angustifolius, is a good choice to add diversity to a pollinator garden because of their lengthy bloom time, summer through fall. These flowers are a great pollinator attractor especially to bees and butterflies during fall season. Over the last month or so, you may have seen these tall, bright yellow flowers…
The new Mississippi state flag was adopted on January 11, 2021. The flag features a magnolia bloom, representing its nickname, “The Magnolia State” and its state tree and flower.
About a year ago, one of my regular blog readers asked if magnolia trees (Magnolia grandiflora) had any particularly redeeming qualities. The one…
UF/IFAS research and education centers (RECs) grow fruits and vegetables all across Florida to develop growing techniques and cultivars that benefit farmers. These centers are spread from Jay in the Panhandle to Homestead in Southeast Florida. So, what happens to all that fresh food? Much of it is donated to community food banks. Here’s a…
FORT PIERCE, Fla.— Florida citrus producers, including corporate leaders and research scientists, gathered recently to tour a 20-acre experimental citrus grove to observe the disease tolerance and horticultural performance of more than 5,500 trees in Florida.
University of Florida research scientists will carry out the first harvest of the “Millennium Block,” a citrus grove planted in…
Sustainable development goal 13 is “take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts” or as it is shortened “climate action”1. Starting last Sunday (November 6) and until next Friday (November 18) delegates from different countries and some heads of state are discussing the way forward regarding climate change at the Conference of the…
“What are those!?” As a Florida native I take the regular presence of the sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) for granted, but my out of state visitor was quite shaken both by their size and by their shrill call. To be fair, at just under 4ft in height with a wingspan of over 6ft, these…
By: Dr. Maria Silveira Dr. Maria SilveiraIn 2011, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) established the Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) network (https://ltar.ars.usda.gov/), with the mission of developing long-term, transdisciplinary research to address national and local agricultural priorities and advance the sustainable intensification of U.S. agriculture. The University of Florida, Range Cattle Research and Education Center,…
Severe weather is common in Florida, but hurricanes are major storms that can cause unpredictable damage. Preparing trees for these events is nearly impossible. The best we can do is work to ensure they are planted in the right place, planted correctly, pruned properly, and in overall good health. This gives them the best chance…
Welcome back to our monthly blog which this month is dedicated to the famous Monarch butterfly. Despite a long PR campaign to save its habitat, it is now on the endangered list. The Monarch is one of only three butterflies in the milkweed butterfly family (Danaidae) in North America. It is a very large butterfly…
By Alyssa Vinson, Angela Collins, and David Outerbridge Fishing for a living is a careful negotiation of knowledge, understanding and awareness that coincides with a little bit of luck. It is a puzzle each day as a pattern of processes and ideas form the potential of a bountiful haul from Poseidon’s den. These individuals…
