Tag: environmental
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The Case for Backyard Chickens and why eggs are important

Why are eggs so important to us and why bakyard chickens are the answer.
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Squirrels ate my internet

Last Christmas my kids gave me a bird feeder guaranteed to keep out squirrels. I’ve had load of birds most notible the woodpecker that comes to procreate every year. I filled it up and hung it on a tree and off I went. When I returned it was hanging by a rope and the rope…
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What will Martin County Become?

I moved here to Martin County six years ago. I literally was running away from Palm Beach County. The whole place was closing in on me. The people, the traffic, the constant building way, way out to the Everglades, the traffic. I had driven up here for years for work. I even came up after…
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My Martin County: Ground Floor Farm
My Martin County: Ground Floor Farm This is where I went on my Black Friday. Ground Floor Farm is our local urban farm. In 2014 they raised over 20,000 with a kick starter campaign with 144 backers. This is the Martin County I love. People with wonderful ideas interact with the community. Together the community…
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How to dispose of unwanted medications

How to dispose of unwanted medications. This is a huge issue. It’s HUGE! Not only is it an issue for us, our St Lucie River and Indian River Lagoon but its an issue everywhere people flush their medications down the toilet. This is also true for your pet’s medication. This is true for all medication.…
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Victory

Victory Loggerhead turtles hanging on the back of a truck waiting to be returned to the ocean after their rehab at Loggerhead Marine Life Center in Juno, Florida. Over 30 years ago, long-time Juno Beach resident Eleanor Fletcher started what is now Loggerhead Marinelife Center. Eleanor and her husband Robert had a real estate business…
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Sinkholes: Its the Geology stupid!

So after I wrote my blog I was wondering if we get sinkholes here in Martin County. Will my house get get sucked up in a hole? Will I be calling 911 saying “I’m in the ground!” Yikes.
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Florida Inc: It’s all about the water: muck fires and sinkholes

“Earlier Monday, smoke from a more than 10,300-acre wildfire in Palm Beach County could be smelled throughout the Treasure Coast thanks to winds out of the south.
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Help Save the Everglades from more destruction, STOP ROGG (River of Grass Greenway).

Please sign the petition! (Even if you don’t live here you could visit)