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Thanks to a new technological development by the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) and the Florida-Friendly Landscaping program, Florida home owners and garden enthusiasts can now obtain expert gardening tips and advice just by reaching in their pockets and grabbing their smartphones.

They are pretty and they smell good. Inside, they look like marvels of engineering. Or, maybe something brought back from a space trip. They’re Florida grapefruit.

As many of you know, one of America’s favorite beverages is at grave risk.  Though Florida’s citrus trees have overcome many challenges over the last five centuries, including freezes, hurricanes, and canker, its latest challenge poses an existential threat to the industry.

Florida’s blueberry growers spend $6,000 to $8,000 an acre on pine bark to make sandy soil suitable for their crop. They count on labor to hand pick berries, as well as high prices during an exclusive spring marketing window to make it all pay off.

Life is all about choices. Pick and choose what you want to do with what you have to do it with. When you have plenty of blueberries and a lot of strawberry recipes, choose to use blueberries.

Despite the federal government’s long history of egregious overreach and land grabs, it recently outdid itself.

Farm Credit of Central Florida Chairman of the Board, David J. Stanford, a Winter Garden citrus grower, announced the association’s eligible member/borrowers will benefit from patronage refunds, or profit-sharing, of $3.5 Million, significantly lowering their cost of borrowing. Farm Credit of Central Florida is a member-owned cooperative lending funds to ranchers, growers, farmers, and rural

It’s Florida and life’s a peach . . . at least it will be if the peach-growers have anything to say about it.  Nature abhors a vacuum and, thanks to Florida plant scientists, vacant land is being filled with not only profitable crops, but delicious ones too.  The profit takes longer than the flavor to

This year, Florida’s land grant universities—the University of Florida and Florida A&M University—celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Smith-Lever Act of 1914, which created the Cooperative Extension Service.

There’s nothing like taking something Southern and making it something Southerner—a dish with Florida flair. After all, if you get any farther south than Florida you’re swimming for an island.