Tabitha Frazier created the Leon Fruit and Nut Exchange to enable home gardeners with extra produce to pay their food forward to people within their community who lack access to fresh food. Growers can register online at leonfruitandnutexhange.org to...
It has been a hard four years for the Apalachicola Bay oyster fishery. Crippled by extreme droughts in 2011 and 2012, it was in need of extensive restoration. As drought appears to be affecting the Apalachicola River...
By the Choctawhatchee River, we hike through a recently burned longleaf forest and cross a swamp with dedicated trail volunteers. This new section of trail features a scenic boardwalk and a forest in the process of being restored...
On Saturday, May 13th from 9am to 1pm, people can head over to the UF/IFAS Leon County Extension Office on Paul Russell Road to check out the 7 demonstration gardens as well as the orchard. Volunteer Master Gardeners...
In our last visit to Torreya State Park, we saw a park whose unique tree canopy had been seriously damaged by Hurricane Michael. Today, we see how, in another section of the park, they’ve planted over 1.6 million longleaf pine...
You Don’t Always Need a 4 Year degree
Jobs, jobs, jobs!
People want them, employers have them.
But the two sides don’t always matchup.
Education plays a big role in employability and the traditional 4-, 5-,
or 6-year college route to a job is...
WFSU Public Media's Executive Producer for Television, Suzanne Smith, talks with WFSU's FM News Director Lynn Hatter and Morning Edition Host Gina Jordan about their recent Retro Local Stories on the histories of Smokey Hollow and the FAMU Hospital....
A inspiring family story of how 3 destined-to-be Rattlers, Atira, Ameer, and Tony, found their path to Florida A&M University, and how they used the knowledge they obtained from their time at college, (and their parents) to reach their...
We look at WFSU's efforts to collect stories of the Vietnam Era as part of the Ken Burns documentary called The Vietnam War. In addition to sharing some of the local memories of those who lived during that time...
Nonprofit record label Cat Family Records was founded in 2016 to help do-it-yourself local musicians deal with all aspects of the music industry. The largely events-based organization hosted over 200 shows prior to COVID-19. A year into the pandemic,...
