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Tips for creating the perfect outdoor kitchen

(BPT) - With the growing trend toward creating outdoor living spaces, building an outdoor kitchen has never been more popular—or more attainable. Whether you love entertaining or simply enjoy …
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UF/IFAS researchers deploy drones to perfect nutrient rates
The UF/IFAS Best Management Practices Lab is using drones to develop algorithms that estimate nutrient application rates for optimal crop yields.
6 Simple Ways to Increase Your Vegetable Intake in 2025
In 2025, there are numerous simple and effective ways to boost your vegetable consumption, ensuring that you meet your nutritional needs while enjoying diverse and delicious meals.
Neighborhood Goodness: Taking a break to appreciate
If you want to participate, your community’s leadership can request a brief presentation and get the ball rolling. Two options are available: Yard of the Month and Yard of the Quarter.
Enhancing Your Property: Smart Storage Shed and Driveway Renovation Ideas
While many homeowners concentrate on major interior updates, upgrading often-overlooked areas like storage sheds and driveways can also make a substantial difference.
Natural Gas and 811 Day: Key tips for safe digging
Sunshine 811 is a free service that notifies utility companies when and where someone is digging so they can mark the necessary utility lines, helping to avoid potentially dangerous interruptions to service. 
Summer seed saving: A Master Gardener shares tips on wildflower propagation
Summer is an ideal time for Florida green thumbs undeterred by heat and rain to collect wildflower seeds for showy displays next year.
The people who feed America are going hungry 
The 2.4 million or so farmworkers who are the backbone of America’s agricultural industry earn among the lowest wages in the country.
How to Tame an Unruly Garden
If you don’t then you may find that the issue only gets worse with time, and in some instances, it can even take money off the value of your home.
Where the southern half of the Upland Bayfront Preserve stood, there’s now fill dirt, soon to become a soccer field and beach volleyball courts.
New College of Florida tears up nature preserve, claims it’s an improvement
The preserve was a strip of bayfront land full of century-old pines, massive oaks, thick cabbage palms, and plenty of mangroves along the shoreline. At the end of May—right after the students left campus for the summer—machines rumbled into the preserve and began knocking trees down like bowling pins.
June rainfall below average for fifth straight month
District staff continue to monitor rainfall and groundwater levels to ensure adequate supply for public demand but emphasize the importance of using water wisely.
American mistletoe's genus *Phoradendron* means 'thief of trees' in Greek.
Mistletoe – famous for stolen holiday kisses – is a parasite that steals water and nutrients from other plants
This evergreen plant has some tricky ways to get ahead, but it’s a valuable part of the ecosystem.
Meet the peach that traveled the Trail of Tears and the elders working to save it
Grist follows the journey of the Indian peach through genocide, climate change, and more challenges.
Top 4 essentials for better outdoor living
(BPT) - Because you love your home, you want to make your outdoor spaces just as comfortable and unique as the ones you've created indoors. Whether you dream of entertaining or relaxing, you want to …
How a 'pollinator pathmaker' can help us see like a bee
Reasons to be Cheerful follows artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's path to transform how people see gardens—geared toward pollinators' tastes rather than humans.
Fall in love with autumn and winter gardening
(BPT) - Whether you're a master gardener, complete novice, or something in between, fall is the perfect season to start enjoying or extend this popular family-friendly hobby.As cooler temperatures …

Sunflowers make small moves to maximize their Sun exposure − physicists can model them to predict how they grow

Most of us aren’t spending our days watching our houseplants grow. We see their signs of life only occasionally – a new leaf unfurled, a stem leaning toward the window.

From watering via ice cubes to spritzing with hydrogen peroxide – 4 misguided plant health trends on social media

The internet is full of advice on just about everything, including plant care. As the director of a plant diagnostic laboratory and expert on plant medicine, I help people manage their plants’ health
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To counter gun violence, he recruits police from the communities most afflicted
The Trace examines how a chief deputy in Ohio is fighting for a community policing approach to gun violence in the movement for police reform across the Midwest.
The slow, powerful work of bridging the women's health gap
Reasons to be Cheerful looks at the growing focus on women in medical research.
Purchasing data uncovers spicy insights about the most popular brands for National Hot Sauce Day
Instacart data reveals top hot sauces and their essential role in kitchens nationwide.
What are the most popular dog names by breed?
Best Dog Breeds analyzed data from the American Kennel Club and the New York City government to see what the most popular dog names were by breed.
While the typical marriage age keeps rising, it remains young in these states
NYC Vital Records used data from the Census Bureau to take a look at how the standard age to get married is evolving across the U.S.
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