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'Fasciation' on 'Gardening' on GPTV Sept. 21 Posted on 09/12/02 by Dan Rahn

You may have seen the "flattened" willow stems used to make attractive flower arrangements. Host Walter Reeves looks closer at these "fasciated" stems on "Gardening in Georgia" Sept. 21 on Georgia Public Television.

New Process Makes Honey Safe For Infants Posted on 09/05/02 by Sharon Omahen

For safety's sake, generations of babies have missed out on the sweet taste and healthy benefits of honey. But a new sterilization process may erase the risk and allow future toddlers to enjoy the sweet treat.

After-School Snacks Can Be Healthy Posted on 09/05/02 by

After a long day at school, most kids head straight for the refrigerator or the cupboard when they get home. But are the after-school snacks they're grabbing the best choices?

Armyworms marching through Georgia fields, yards Posted on 09/05/02 by Mike Isbell

These green or brown worms can eat up pastures, hay fields and yards faster than Mike Isbell's cousins could grab up all the deviled eggs at the family reunion. They (the worms, not the cousins) can turn acres of fields, pastures or lawns into nothing more than stubs sticking out of the ground.

'Starting Landscape Business' Workshop Oct. 24-25 Posted on 09/05/02 by Dan Rahn

There's more to making landscape businesses work than having a pickup and trailer, a mower and some tools. For anyone just starting out, or just thinking about getting into the business, "Starting a Landscape Business" is a gold mine of information.

UGA, USFS study to benchmark wilderness values Posted on 09/03/02 by Brad Haire

The National Wilderness Preservation System holds and protects millions of acres in the United States from human development. But of what value is this, really? University of Georgia scientists are helping spearhead a national study to help elected officials, regulatory agencies and land policymakers answer this question.

Nation's largest fern sale returns to GPC Posted on 09/03/02 by Dawn Zillich

Georgia Perimeter College’s Fern Madness returns to the Botanical Garden located at the Decatur Campus, 3251 Panthersville Road, Decatur. Numerous varieties of ferns will be available for sale Sept. 3-6 from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. and Sept. 7, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Georgia muscadine crop taking on new look Posted on 08/29/02 by Dan Rahn

Charles Cowart grows sweet, healthful, muscadine grapes. But he knows he can't just go on selling grapes. "There's a whole other group of consumers out there who aren't concerned with how great this product is," says Cowart, owner of the 150-acre Still Pond Vineyard near Arlington, Ga. "They're more interested in how easy and fast it is."

Sweet muscadines no mystery to birds Posted on 08/29/02 by Mike Isbell

If Mike Isbell had stopped to listen before he opened the door, he probably would have known what was in his yard. Grackles make the most irritating sound -- like turning the dial on a radio real fast. And they were all over his muscadine vines.

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