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Shoes from the Netherlands. Moving from central Florida, to Sylvania, Ala., Meindert and Eileen Dijkhuis farm 20 acres of land that produces vegetables, fruit trees, eggs and pastured broilers.

Natural remedies safer than pesticides

Those of us who have landscaping in our yards, vegetable gardens or fruit trees are well aware of the damage insects can cause. Here in Central Florida, there are a variety of pests that may appear at certain times each year to feed on our plants.

Don't call it a comeback

Sandy Mansmann was sure when she recently saw the small, winged monster on her property in Nottingham Township that Washington County had entered the year of the locust.

GOOD Attacks! Hunger with 13,484 Pounds of Fruit

  Last Sunday we pulled off  our latest GOOD Attacks! event, teaming up with Los Angeles-based nonprofit Food Forward to pick surplus fruit from the orange groves at California State University at Northridge. Food Forward was founded by Rick Nahmais, a Los Angeles-based writer, photographer, and filmmaker, who noticed that his neighborhood had several local gardens from which the produce wasn't ...

Saved from bulldozer, Univ. of Md. 'hillock' teems with life

'BioBlitz' tallies birds, bugs and more in wooded campus enclave Harvard University has a research forest. So does Duke. Yale has multiple forests. The University of Maryland has “the wooded hillock." a 24-acre patch of trees at the northern tip of the state's flagship public campus.