If the green revolution is going to succeed, neighbors have to band together to learn and garner motivation from each other. ...more

June 19, 2008

Local organic ag company hosts an event to bring together environmentally minded people to celebrate and learn. ...more

June 18, 2008

A father-and-son volunteer project resulted in a "dream come true" for the University of South Florida Botanical Gardens. ...more

June 14, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY For several local home-schooled children, Starkey Environmental Education Center in Jay B. Starkey Wilderness Park is kind of a "school away from school." Hardly a week goes by that NPR Homeschoolers, a community organization of home schooling families, doesn't have some sort of a session at the center, usually tapping recreation leader Katie Mac Millen's vast knowledge of nature. Some weeks they are at the park more than once. They even have the occasional overnight event. ...more

June 14, 2008

GARDEN NOTES Events NATIVE PLANT WEEKEND: The Butterfly, Herb & Native Plant Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday June 15 at USF Botanical Gardens. ...more

June 12, 2008

A father-and-son volunteer project resulted in a "dream come true" for the University of South Florida Botanical Gardens. ...more

June 11, 2008

A father-and-son volunteer project resulted in a "dream come true" for the University of South Florida Botanical Gardens. ...more

June 11, 2008

USF CAMPUS A father-and-son volunteer project resulted in a "dream come true" for the University of South Florida Botanical Gardens. Dennis Lindeman, 58, and his son, Hank, 19, recently built a Seminole Indian-style chickee hut: a wood-framed pavilion with a palm frond-thatched roof. ...more

June 10, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY -- For several local home-schooled children, Starkey Environmental Education Center in Jay B. Starkey Wilderness Park is kind of a "school away from school." Hardly a week goes by that NPR Homeschoolers, a community organization of home schooling families, doesn't have some sort of a session at the center, usually tapping recreation leader Katie Mac Millen's vast knowledge of nature. Some weeks they are at the park more than once. They even have the occasional overnight event. ...more

June 6, 2008

GARDEN NOTES Events NATIVE PLANT WEEKEND: The Butterfly, Herb & Native Plant Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 14 and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 15 at USF Botanical Gardens. ...more

June 5, 2008