Edible Plant Project

🚨 ACTION ALERT Please contact members of the Fiscal Policy Committee TODAY to let them know we don’t want the State Parks Bill amended the way Chair Joe Gruters plans to - which would leave a loophole for allowing golf courses on state parks! We want the HOUSE VERSION of the bill! You can google “Fiscal Policy Committee Florida” and find a link to find a full list with contact information for all of the committee members. FLsenate.gov/Committees/Show/FP?pref=full The policy committee meets tomorrow at 11am, and we need to have our voices heard now! #stateparks #floridastateparks #protectpubliclands

“The 107 acre former blueberry farm is being cut down this morning. Because the property appraiser allowed the owner to retain an agricultural exemption, even though the farm hasn’t been active in 15 years. Hec was able to apply for a permit for commercial tree removal without an environmental assessment or neighborhood meeting.

The rest of us can’t get ag exempt when we’re doing the right thing, he can hold on long after the farming stopped. Where is the justice here?

If you want to call the property appraisal office the number is 352-374-5230 but there is no one to answer phones. Email co and city commissioners at [email protected] to ask them how this happened? Why didn’t his ag exemption expire if he wasn’t farming?” J. E.

Do you know…. The American Beautyberry (Callicarpa Americana) is being researched at this time for the following:
🧼 Anti-Bacterial
🦠 Antiviral
🍄 Antifungal
🧬 Direct/Indirect Antioxidant Activity
🦟 Repel Ticks better than DEET
🦟 Natural mosquito repellant
🐜 Natural ant repellant
🔬 Cancer Research
🧠 Memory research

Read the studies and informative articles
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fp090

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2760847/

https://www.superfoodly.com/beautyberry

Thank you UF IFAS Marion County Master Gardeners