Farms and Agriculture

Smarter by Nature is a farm in Quincy, Florida. They grow food using regenerative methods that mimic ecosystems in nature.

Turkey Hill Farm and the UF/ IFAS Leon County Extension share how they build healthy soil with compost in Tallahassee, Florida.

Leon County’s Success Academy launches a Garden-to-Cafeteria program, providing healthy food to students while fulfilling their STEM requirements.

Eluster Richardson recreates scenes from his childhood, as he paints watercolors of tenant farm life for the Jones Tenant House Exhibit at Tall Timbers.

Local farms in the Red Hills are part of an agricultural tradition dating back to the Apalachee. We go farm to table at Thomasville’s Sweetgrass Dairy.

Mushrooms are one of our few foods that are neither plant or animal. At Lake Seminole Farm, we explore mushroom production and their role in forest ecology.

We visit two Gadsden Co. farms with contrasting takes on organic growing, and a farm to table restaurant that buys Red Hills Small Farm Alliance products.

The Sharing Water Conference brought citizens together to discuss ways to protect the Floridan aquifer, the source of our drinking water and springs.

The Red Hills Small Farm Alliance is a collective of farms centered on Tallahassee. We explore the ways in which they interact with their natural settings.