How to freeze your summer strawberries for flavor all year long. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. If you don’t want those summer strawberries to go to waste,…
Health Bite: Eating for Better Mental Health
…way back. Keeping emotional and mental health at the forefront of our food choices is just one more reason to eat healthy. We all know we don’t feel our best…
Getting Rid of an Aggressive Weed Before It Takes Over
…the roots. If it’s taking over a space where you don’t want to grow anything else for at least 6 months, you can try smothering it under layers of cardboard…
Health Bite: Calories 101
…Watchers and more, is a version of a lower calorie diet. If you need to lose weight for health reasons and don’t know where to start, it’s a good idea…
Just a Few Helpful Tips for Growing Great Strawberries
…some sort of protection from birds, who don’t mind a strawberry snack or two. Some of the best strawberry varieties to grow include: June-bearing, day-neutral, ever-bearer, and Alpine. Listen to…
MSOB: Biocontrol Treatment Mitigates HLB Symptoms
…these tests, the difference was quite striking,” said Don Hopkins, emeritus professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Florida. In the latest episode of Making Sense of Biologicals, Hopkins…
Health Bite: Electrolyte 101
Sports drinks like Gatorade have done a great job highlighting the need to replenish electrolytes, but does anyone know what they are and why they’re important? Hi I’m Rachel Eslick…
Industry Group Voices Opposition to Proposed Mill Assessment Increase
…We don’t have a choice.” Assessment rates would be more than doubled for some of the higher-tiered materials under the proposal. The funding that would be raised through a higher…
Water Funding in Latest Budget Proposal: ‘Band-Aids at Best’
…this money is going to do that. It’s significant, don’t get me wrong. The governor has definitely put a significant amount of money towards water, but it’s band-aids at best,”…
Efficient Transportation Infrastructure Essential to Ag Export Strength
…possible cost. Because if they don’t flow with the lowest possible cost, they’re not going to flow at all because they will go in some other direction to or from…
Food Safety Message Heard ‘Loud and Clear’ by Leafy Greens Producers
…to protect public safety and health. We want to learn what we don’t know and apply that to what we do so that we can do our best to prevent…
Farmers Have Rights to Refuse Property Access in Certain Instances
…allowed to come in. So, we want to make sure that we’re not giving them consent where we don’t have to,” Moody explained. Su noted that she will be working…
Items to Cross Off the Garden To-Do List This Month
…birds. Start your summer veggies by sowing seeds of warm weather vegetables like cucumber and squash. Don’t forget to cover seeds with row covers until they emerge and grow larger…
Sustainability Challenge Looks to Startups and Scaleups for Ag Solutions
…of smart people in the world, and we sure don’t have all the answers. So, we talk about specific technologies you and I, but what we’re really looking to see…