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by Ed O’Connor, Fulton County Master Gardener Extension Volunteer trainee This article is part of Garden Buzz, a series from Appen Media and the North Fulton Master Gardeners, where rotating columnists explore horticulture topics like herbs, insects, and wildlife conservation. Find all Garden Buzz articles here. Those of us that enjoy our lawns are thrilled to…
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by Rock Reed, Fulton County Master Gardener Extension Volunteer trainee This article is part of Garden Buzz, a series from Appen Media and the North Fulton Master Gardeners, where rotating columnists explore horticulture topics like herbs, insects, and wildlife conservation. Find all Garden Buzz articles here. How do you get healthy gardens and yards? It all…
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by Carole MacMullan, Fulton County Master Gardener Extension Volunteer This article is part of Garden Buzz, a series from Appen Media and the North Fulton Master Gardeners, where rotating columnists explore horticulture topics like herbs, insects, and wildlife conservation. Find all Garden Buzz articles here. When I moved to Atlanta in 2008 and was ready to…
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by Judy Peacock, Fulton County Master Gardener Extension Volunteer This article is part of Garden Buzz, a series from Appen Media and the North Fulton Master Gardeners, where rotating columnists explore horticulture topics like herbs, insects, and wildlife conservation. Find all Garden Buzz articles here. About ten years ago, I attended a Georgia Master Gardeners Association…
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Are you interested in native plants, biodiversity, pollinators, composting, and other green landscape practices? Then the Georgia Green Landscape Stewards certification program is for you! Our Master Gardeners are teaching courses from the Georgia Green Landscape Stewards program at libraries across Fulton County this summer. Read on to find out where and when. What is…
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by James Herrin, Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent Residents of Fulton County experience a higher risk of exposure to the second leading cause of lung cancer when at home. Radon is a naturally occurring gas that can build up inside the air in buildings. According to the US EPA, nearly 21,000 lung cancer deaths are…
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Written by Fulton County MGEV William L. Jeffries IV, PhD, MPH, MA As the sun peaked over the Central Florida horizon on a winter morning in the late 1980s, I awoke with cheerful anticipation of a day full of outdoor play. After my morning routine, I proceeded to go outside and round up my friends…
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This year, the Great Georgia Pollinator Census will be held on August 20th and 21st. For more information about our local pollinators and instructions on how to participate, visit: https://ggapc.org/ Bees, butterflies, moths, flies, and other insects all play a vital role in our environment: pollinators. Pollinator insects are responsible for the success of many…
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written by Pam Rentz, Fulton County Master Gardener Extension Volunteer “If you build it, he will come.” It worked in the film classic Field of Dreams. Kevin Costner played Ray Kinsella, an Iowa farmer who heard a voice whisper those words to him one evening while he was walking through his cornfield. A baseball fan,…
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Written by Anila Nair, Fulton County Master Gardener It’s that wonderful time of the year when Mother Nature is at her very best, her coffers full of nature’s bounty, ripe for the picking by man and beast alike. Among nature’s cornucopia, if there’s anything that stands out, it has to be nature’s edible rubies, those…