Friday Feature:  The Farmer Poem for Farm-City Week

Friday Feature: The Farmer Poem for Farm-City Week

This week’s featured video is actually one I shared previously, but because it has such a great message for Farm-City Week, I wanted to highlight it again.  The video was published by Land O’ Lakes to bring to life a poem written in the late 1800s by...
Friday Feature:  What is Agronomy?

Friday Feature: What is Agronomy?

Farm-City Week starts next Wednesday, so I wanted to share a good video to help people learn about agriculture.  According to the Mariam-Webster Dictionary, “Agronomy is a branch of agriculture dealing with field-crop production and soil management.”  In...
Growing Native Yaupons for Tea Leaf Harvest

Growing Native Yaupons for Tea Leaf Harvest

Yaupon holly (Ilex spp.) are native plants to that grow very well and abundantly in Florida soils.  Yaupon is a very old plant that historically has been used as an important food source, medicine, and even used as a ceremonial item by Timucua Indigenous groups for...