Category: Farm & Outdoors

Story Submitted by Natural Resources Conservation Service Florida private landowners in the St. Marks and Aucilla River watersheds can apply until Sept. 1 for financial and technical assistance from USDA’s Natural Resources…

Mike Johnson ECB Publishing, Inc. Ever wonder why areas like Jefferson County have some of the most beautiful gardens, flowers or just plant growth in general? Well, that is due to the…

Earlier this month, more than 225 young farmers, ranchers and agriculturalists gathered in Fort Myers, Florida for the Florida Farm Bureau Young Farmers and Ranchers Leadership Conference. Clay and Kari Fulford, Emily…

  As farmland continues to decrease and cities grow, consumers are further removed from agriculture and where food comes from. Younger consumers are more likely to eat out or purchase prepared foods…

    Temperatures are on the rise and school is out. While the official start of summer 2021 is still weeks away, that summer feeling is growing in every corner of Jefferson…

Mike Johnson ECB Publishing, Inc. Granny Kat’s Apiary Supply & Bee Learning Center is a local owned business, not just specializing in the making of honey, but also in the life of…

  Did you know that each year the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) designates a week to recognize and celebrate pollinators?! This week is known as National Pollinator Week and takes…

Forest Resources Association Contributor The Forest Resources Association (FRA) and STIHL Incorporated honored Gray Logging, LLC., of Madison, as the National Outstanding Logger at FRA’s 2021 virtual annual meeting on Wednesday, May…

Meet Gretchen Thornton The new Family and Consumer Sciences Agent Mike Johnson ECB Publishing, Inc. Gretchen Thornton is the newest smiling face at the Jefferson County 4-H Extension Office, taking over as…

Story Submitted by FWC This week kicks off National Fishing and Boating Week and what better way to celebrate than to try your hand at fishing in Florida. License-free saltwater fishing weekend…

The early spring weeks have been filled with nature’s heralds in Jefferson County which have announced the return of warmer weather in a nearly infinite variety of ways. Butterflies have returned, frogs…

Emerald Greene Parsons ECB Publishing, Inc. The Jefferson County Farm Bureau recently awarded area school students (in the first and fifth grade) with prizes and pizza parties for their participation in the…

  If you’ve ever walked barefoot through a patch of burweed, you know this is a very unpleasant experience. Lawn burweed, also called spurweed or stickerweed, is a low growing winter annual…

  Gardening season is in full swing! Throughout the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve seen an increased interest in gardening and landscaping and the questions continue to flow in. With this…

Story Submitted By Ginger Gray Gray Logging, LLC, of Madison County, was recently awarded Florida Logger of the Year for 2020 by the Florida Forestry Association. The annual event was held at…

Kathrine Alderman ECB Publishing, Inc. Looking for a fun, active day camp to send your kids to this summer? Well, not too far away, in Tallahassee, Generations Church will be holding their…

Contributed by Danielle Sprague Jefferson County UF/IFAS Extension dsprague@ufl.edu We know summer isn’t summer without 4-H camp so we will be offering some limited capacity in-person camps at the UF/IFAS Jefferson County…

Kathrine Alderman ECB Publishing, Inc. Agriculture is something many rural Floridian towns find important, and Jefferson County is no different. Agriculture and the agriculture industry are a big part of life around…

Kathrine Alderman ECB Publishing, Inc. The Jefferson County Kings of Spring held their annual Youth Turkey Challenge (YTC) recently! This year it was done as a stand-alone event, as the turkey banquet…

How to start your fishing adventure Florida Fish and Wildlife Contributor Fishing is an enjoyable pastime, especially here in Florida. In fact, there are approximately 4 million saltwater and freshwater anglers in…