Hillsborough County Blog

Dredging is a process done in navigable waters where the sea floor is disturbed, either by sucking or scraping, to move bottom lying sediments from one location to another. This is done to provide an underwater pathway for ships to follow. The obvious problem that presents itself with dredging ...

Last weekend Hillsborough county lost yet another member of the community, after a bicyclist died riding along Fletcher Ave. outside of USF. The 52-year-old man used bicycling as a means to keep in good health and, according to his wife, would bike often. Unfortunately, his Sunday afternoon ri...

Several of the sixty-four counties across the state of Florida have limitations on the sale or application of nitrogen/phosphorous based fertilizers. Such bans came about after realizing that high usage of fertilizer combined with frequent summer rainfall leads to excessive pollution in local bo...

Several of the sixty-four counties across the state of Florida have limitations on the sale or application of nitrogen/phosphorous based fertilizers. Such bans came about after realizing that high usage of fertilizer combined with frequent summer rainfall leads to excessive pollution in local bo...

We are all well aware of the possibilities available for the use of sunlight. It is readily converted into electricity through a variety of “cells”, and it can also serve as a super-efficient heater for water and air. For example, there are millions of people with solar hot water heaters that sup...

Have you ever wondered what it is like in our upper atmosphere?
Life here on Earth has been fairly well understood for a long time, and there are actually very few scientific surprises left to discover.
Because of this many people have started to wonder what is beyond the planet’s atmosphere, ...

There are many reasons to eat organic produce, including for your health, but one you may not be aware of is that - when it comes to growing food – healthy, regenerative soil is vital. Organic is the only method of growing that is sustainable.

An estimated 10,000 species of microbes, including...