The Healthy Pond Collaborative-Sarasota is pleased to announce that it just completed its second year with a healthy pond program in Sarasota County that advised forty local communities how to maintain a healthy stormwater pond and provided $40,000 in grants to qualified participants that created over six miles of newly planted pond shoreline that will [...]
Willow Brook is a community in Sarasota that was built between 2000 and 2002 with 54 residences and a population of about 150. Their stormwater detention ponds are now over twenty years old and some enhancement is needed to help control bank erosion. To learn more about an ongoing healthy pond maintenance program, John Hawke, [...]
Roasted Salmon with Mustard, Lemon and Dill Ingredients ¼ c whole grain mustard 2 tbsp Dijon mustard 2 tsp extra virgin olive oil 2 tbsp fresh dill, chopped finely 4 (6 oz) salmon fillets, skin on Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper Lemon, cut into wedges, for serving Directions Preheat oven to 400°F and line [...]
Current Conditions Over the past week, the red tide organism Karenia brevis was detected at background concentrations in one Southwest Florida sample collected offshore. In Southwest Florida over the past week, K. brevis was observed at background concentrations in one sample collected offshore of Pinellas County. In Northwest Florida over the past week, K. brevis [...]
Thanks to the generous funding from the Charles and Margery Barancik Foundation, the Healthy Pond Collaborative-Manatee (HPC-Manatee) just concluded Year One of the three-year grant with a record number of visited pond communities and newly planted shoreline with aquatic plants that help reduce unsightly agal growth and costly bank erosion. The HPC-Manatee has been led [...]
