Growing your own plants is harder. Growing your own plants in Florida is even harder. We take inspiration from the professionals, but getting it right can be nearly impossible.

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Find out more about Orlando's botanical garden, Leu Gardens!

Read Robert Bowden's book, Florida Fruit & Vegetable Gardening!

Songs

Springtime by Lobo Loco

Nice to Be Near You by Lobo Loco

Traveling to Louisiana by Lobo Loco

Visions of 2018 by Lobo Loco

Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco

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Authors leave a trail of legacy and memories behind them. They cannot control how their words will age or change, but, in the case of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, she created a new vocabulary to speak about Florida that we still use to this day.

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The voice of Marjorie was Bailey DeVoe. You can see Bailey DeVoe in Andrew Lippa's Wild Party the Musical at the Aeon Life Theater in Tampa!

Read more of Dr. Jill Jones' work here.

You can read Lauren Groff's article about Marjorie here.

You can check out more of Willie Green's life and legacy here.

Songs

Things You Never Known by Lobo Loco

Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco

Piano Parapentes by Lobo Loco

Traveling to Louisiana by Lobo Loco

Hey Go by Lobo Loco

Desert Ghost Town by Lobo Loco

Brain Instrumental Retro by Lobo Loco

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Nine months before Walt Disney World took Central Florida by storm, one unusual little theme park tried to leave an impact of their own. Why did so many parks try to take on the Mouse? And what do we get in return when we relish in nostalgia?

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Songs

Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco

Echoes Boogie Dancehall by Lobo Loco

Traveling to Lousiana by Lobo Loco

Piano Parapentes by Lobo Loco

Love After Midnight by Lobo Loco

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From our early Spanish years, to our secession from the United States, our flag has been a playground of ideologies. Why has our state struggled to find its own identity? And how can Floridians fight to control their own symbols and narratives?

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Songs

You Get The Blues by Lobo Loco

Brain - Instrumental Retro by Lobo Loco

Desert Ghost Town by Lobo Loco

Easy Night by Lobo Loco

Piano Parapentes by Lobo Loco

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The secret pathways of the Everglades have puzzled explorers for decades. However, for the criminals of Prohibition-era Miami, the maze of the swamp was the perfect way to escape justice.

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Songs

Desert Ghost Town by Lobo Loco

Hey Go by Lobo Loco

Bad Old Daemons by Lobo Loco

Most of John Huston's 1948 classic Key Largo was actually filmed in California. This doesn't matter for the people of the real Key Largo, who have built a city around the movie's popularity. How much of it is truly inspired by the island? 

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Songs

Traveling to Louisiana by Lobo Loco

Echoes Boogie Dancehall by Lobo Loco

Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco

Additional Audio

Key Largo Official Trailer #1

Hurricanes in the Movies: Hurricane scene from film "Key Largo"

Humphrey Bogart Film Festival - Key Largo

For over sixty years, the citizens of Ocala have seen strange lights over their forest. Could the Navy base deep in the woods be the explanation? Or is there something beyond our world paying visits to the little town?

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Songs

Morning at the Creek by Lobo Loco

Autumn Morning by Lobo Loco

Arround the Village by Lobo Loco

Additional Audio

Case 78114 - Ocala, Florida, July 31, 2016

Yellow fever and malaria tore about the south for over a century. Fifty years before anyone had a treatment for either of these diseases, one Florida man invented a machine that could've saved millions... if only anyone had listened.

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Songs

Bad Old Daemons by Lobo Loco

Desert Ghost Town by Lobo Loco

Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco

It is the one-year anniversary of the creation of this show. Today, let's celebrate how far we've come, and interrogate all of the places we have yet to go. 

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Songs

Things You Never Known by Lobo Loco

Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco

Bad Old Daemons by Lobo Loco

Autumn Morning by Lobo Loco

Good Thoughts by Lobo Loco

Hey Go by Lobo Loco

Love After Midnight by Lobo Loco

Echoes Boogie Dancehall by Lobo Loco

Sources

https://www.orlando.gov/Parks-the-Environment/Directory/Wetlands-Park

https://patch.com/connecticut/windsor/it-takes-mark-twain-to-describe-new-england-weather-daca7672

https://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/arts/twain1.htm

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2017/02/16/mandela-effect-false-memories/#.XTZS2JNKikY

https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/06/20/florida-could-face-76-billion-in-climate-change-costs-by-2040-report-says/ 

https://www.tampabay.com/environment/new-study-predicts-higher-high-temperatures-for-florida-thanks-to-climate-change-20190716/ 

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article226863744.html

http://www.cityoforlando.net/greenworks/about/

http://southeastfloridaclimatecompact.org/

Around Florida's coasts, a small population of birds with an unusual hunting habit. As their numbers dwindle in the state, a group of volunteers fight to keep the birds safe.

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Songs

Arround the Lake by Lobo Loco

Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco

Bad Old Daemons by Lobo Loco

Speedy Delta by Lobo Loco

Love After Midnight by Lobo Loco

Echoes Boogie Dancehall by Lobo Loco

Sources

https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/profiles/birds/shorebirdsseabirds/black-skimmer/

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-pinellas/100-black-skimmer-babies-being-born-on-st-pete-beach

https://birdsna.org/Species-Account/bna/species/blkski/introduction

https://fl.audubon.org/sites/default/files/audubon_beach_birds_identification_terns_gulls.pdf

https://www.audubon.org/about/history-audubon-and-waterbird-conservation

https://fl.audubon.org/get-involved/coastal-bird-stewardship

https://fl.audubon.org/coastal-conservation/floridas-rooftop-nesting-birds