Rose Schnabel

Several North Central Florida developements are emulating the food-centric layouts of the earliest agricultural communities in Mesopotamia, China and South America. Agrihoods share the “back to the land” goal of the intentional communities and ecovillages that gained popularity in the 1960s and ‘70s, but cater to a 9-to-5 crowd.

Long before moving to Florida, Vasanti Doshi attributed a sacredness to the Suwannee River, likening it to the Ganga or Ganges River in her ancestral India. To reflect, to celebrate, to mourn and to pray, Vasanti eases down the creaky steps of her backyard dock.

Researchers collected 275 bald eagle eggs from north central Florida in a remarkably successful effort to help save a species ravaged by pesticides and habitat loss. A new statue at an active nesting site will honor the eagles that gave their eggs.

The Dunnellon City Council will vote on Monday, Oct. 27, on whether to send a letter to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection opposing Texas-based Track Line Rail’s draft air permit for a railroad tie grinding site. The company tried to establish its first Florida site in Newberry earlier this year but now plans to set up shop in Dunnellon.

Alachua County Commissioners hired a consultant last year to research the feasibility of a “food hub” to help local growers aggregate, market and distribute their products.

Plans to build houses and commercial spaces atop a cave system of the Floridan Aquifer are moving forward in the City of Alachua despite action by Alachua County and opposition from some of its residents.

It was Lorene who facilitated a bidding war between rival mining companies over a piece of this land, but also her who stopped it. And it was a family trust, in her name, that preserved the land forever.

A Sumter County landfill that’s been the subject of odor complaints since January is going to try to bury the funk underground instead of evaporating it.

Alachua County began drafting its climate action plan in 2022, making it the first inland county in Florida to do so.

Alachua City Commissioners often clash on how to plan for the city’s growth but, in a recent vote, unanimously agreed that those decisions should remain local.