Victoria Freeman

Collards – Grow Your Own

November 1, 2015

Food + Drink·Grow Your Own·Lifestyle·Outdoors·Recipes

In the era of heated gun control dialogue I am hesitant to promote any vegetation as “bulletproof”, but here goes. If you want a vegetable that has been promoted as the “New Kale,” try collards. Yep, collards that southern green staple that is usually eaten as a slimy green mass supporting a ham hock thus creating the faux alcohol

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Grow Your Own: URBAN GARDENS

Short of ideas for your Grow Your Own Garden? Recently moved into a condo with no available garden area? Living in your van? You might want to drive or stroll over to the located on Superior Street near the IFAS center. Started decades ago, the IFAS garden provides a limited

Grow Your Own: Tomatoes and Other Summer Fare

Before 1820, individuals didn’t need to zip line over alligator pits

Grow Your Own: URBAN GARDENS

Short of ideas for your Grow Your Own Garden? Recently moved into

Growing On The River

October 8, 2015

Grow Your Own·Lifestyle·Neighborhoods·On the River·Outdoors·Riverside

Ten blocks away from the is the mini-farm of three folks who produce both high quality protein and a variety of veggies. , son Eli, and have turned every square inch of their Forbes Street property into a petite food production paradise. There is even a roof garden at

Scratch Your Gardening Itch

August 6, 2015

Grow Your Own·Lifestyle·Northside·Outdoors

Short of ideas for your Grow Your Own Garden? Recently moved into a condo with no available garden area? Living in your van? You might want to drive or stroll over to the located on Superior Street near the IFAS center http://duval.ifas.ufl.edu. Started decades ago, the IFAS garden provides a

Grow Your Own – HERITAGE GARDEN

July 4, 2015

Community·Food + Drink·Grow Your Own·Health & Wellness·Jacksonville Beach·Lifestyle·Outdoors·The Beaches

A century ago, in that pre-T.V. time before Publix, Winn Dixie, and Trader Joes, beach folks still had to eat. The actual way they connected with their calories is on daily display at the Beaches Heritage Garden. Located at the corner of Beach Blvd. and 3rd Ave., the museum garden

Spring Gardening: Grow Your Own – April 2015

April 6, 2015

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Want a great reason to spring into gardening? In addition to eggplant, okra and homegrown tomatoes there’s homegrown happiness. According to , gardens may provide the new Prozac. Mycobacterium vaccae, a soil microbe, has been found to mirror the effect on neurons that antidepressant drugs provide. Check out www.discovermagazine.com/2007/jul/raw-data-is-dirt-the-new-prozac for

Grow Your Own-March 2015: Water, Water, NOT Everywhere

March 5, 2015

Feature·Grow Your Own·Outdoors

Recently my Inner English teacher reread a statement three times because she thought it contained a misspelling. It said, “As adults there’s a real danger in becoming competent. “ Shouldn’t that be incompetent? But that was not the case. At least that’s the opinion of Mike Becktle, a nationally published

Tree Hill Nature Center, Old Arlington, Jacksonville, FL, photo by Fran Ruchalski

OLD ARLINGTON: Tree Hill

February 7, 2015

Arlington·Community·Family·Feature·Festivals·Outdoors·Photos

“Follow the trail. It is well marked. The alligator will be on your right and the black goats on your left.” These were the intriguing instructions I received on my quest for the at on Arlington’s Lone Star Road. I liked Tree Hill instantly when I saw a sign offering