From Our Forum
Home-Grown Herbal Tea
Why buy expensive herbal teas when North Florida gardens are abundant with delicious, healthy ingredients? Tell us what's brewing from your garden. Be sure to include some tips on how to grow, harvest and prepare it.
What's Growing In Your Garden?
Tell us what you’re planting, growing and harvesting. Share any tips that help us garden more successfully and sustainably.
How Do You Stay Healthy & Happy?
Inspire us all with your success stories, secrets and suggestions for living healthy and happy.
In The Spotlight
Are Backyard Chickens Legal?
Jacksonville's Grass Roots Movement to Legalize Urban Agriculture
Jacksonville gardeners are uniting to legalize their most beloved, dependable helpers – backyard chickens. Currently, livestock is prohibited inside the city limits without agricultural zoning. But that hasn’t stopped chicken coops from showing up all over prestigious urban neighborhoods … [Read More...]
In The Yard
Florida’s Vegetable Growing Guide
Duval County Extension Office
This growing guide from the Duval County Extension Office offers wonderful information to get you started growing your own vegetables. Learn about soil health, water requirements and composting. It is … [Read More...]
Florida-Friendly Landscaping
Duval County Extension Office
Interested in reducing your use of water and lawn chemicals? Want to grow in harmony with nature? Learn all about Florida-Friendly Landscaping in this guide published by the University of Florida … [Read More...]
For Your Health
Get Your Kids to Eat Their Vegetables
The Secret? Help Them Grow Their Own Garden!
Many parents agonize over how to get their children to eat vegetables. We've all heard stories of the kindergartener who will eat anything, as long as it's white. How about the child who would rather … [Read More...]
Raising Vegetarian Children
How One North Florida Family Adapts In A Meat-Eating Society
One day my children asked me if they could try chicken. They’ve been vegetarian all their lives. I said “absolutely, try chicken. But first we must go to a farm where you can … [Read More...]
Ghee – Healthy, Purified Butter
How To Purify Butter So You Can Enjoy All The Taste
In my home, we use ghee instead of oil. Everything cooked or fry with Ghee tastes so much better, and it's so much healthier than oil or butter. It doesn't burn easily so we can use it for … [Read More...]
In The Home
Floridians Can (Still) Collect Rainwater
It's Illegal In Several States!
Diverting water in some Western states is illegal. Â Utah, Colorado and Washington citizens are banned from collecting rainwater or at the very least have strong restrictions limiting free use of it. Recently a study was done in Douglas County, CO to determine how collection of rainwater affects … [Read More...]
Harnessing Free Florida Sunshine
One Jacksonville Homeowner's Experience With Solar Power
Living in the Sunshine State, doesn’t it make sense to use this abundant energy to lower our electric bills and reduce our carbon footprint? Well it did to me, so I invested in four kinds of solar energy. Solar heats my water, my pool, cools my home and provides electricity. Some I … [Read More...]
