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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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How this Gen Z cookie entrepreneur took her part-time business full-time
Square spotlights Cookie in the Kitchen founder and Gen Zer Emily Henegar's journey growing her custom cookie passion from part-time hustle to full-time business.
States where gun violence has surpassed car accidents as the #1 killer of children in the US
Northwell Health partnered with Stacker to illustrate the states where children are more likely to die of gun violence than vehicle accidents.
Never married and never happier? How attitudes about marriage are changing among singles in America.
Texas Marriage and Divorce Records analyzed Census data and Pew Research to explore how single adults have shifted their mindset toward marriage.
Unleash the fun: These 10 US cities have the most dog parks per resident
Ollie analyzed data from Trust for Public Land to compile a list of U.S. cities where dog owners have the best access to dog parks.
Could the FDA's recently approved Pap smear alternative reduce racial disparities in cervical cancer deaths?
Northwell Health partnered with Stacker to explore how a new Pap smear alternative may help prevent deaths from cervical cancer. 
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