Author: Jon Tietz

  • Guest Column: Why Farmers Markets are Safer and More Convenient than Grocery Stores

    Guest Column: Why Farmers Markets are Safer and More Convenient than Grocery Stores

    BY JESSE HASKINS • AGRICULTURE LAW Buying groceries at a grocery store right now can be downright scary. Vulnerable groups, like the elderly, have good reason to be scared. Grocery stores have drawn especially large crowds, which may consist of people infected with the coronavirus. And grocery stores have plenty of potentially contaminated surface: grocery carts, tongs, self-serve…

  • Loquat News No. 40 – July 2020

    Loquat News No. 40 – July 2020

    Florida Loquat News The Newsletter of The Florida Loquat Festival Celebrating Florida’s Urban Fruit No. 40 July 6, 2020 Published by Ecology Florida and Friendship Farms & Fare https://www.ecologyflorida.org/ Here is Your Summer issue of the Florida Loquat News 2020 Annual Loquat Festival Postponed See inside for update on plans for the rest of the year,…

  • Florida Loquat News #35 – July 2019

    Florida Loquat News #35 – July 2019

    Florida Loquat News The Newsletter of The Florida Loquat Festival Celebrating Florida’s Urban Fruit No. 35 July 1, 2019 Published by Ecology Florida and Friendship Farms & Fare https://www.ecologyflorida.org/ Find the Florida Loquat Festival on Facebook Here is Your Post-Festival issue of the Florida Loquat News 2019 Annual Loquat Festival Tremendous Success Largest Attendance in Festival…

  • Florida Loquat News #33 – March 2019

    Florida Loquat News #33 – March 2019

    The Newsletter of The Florida Loquat Festival No. 33 March 8, 2019 Celebrating Florida’s Urban Fruit An Ecology Florida/Friendship Farms & Fare Annual Event Here Comes the Festival! Sixth Annual Florida Loquat Festival March 23, 2019 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Frances Avenue Park New Port Richey Mark Your Calendars The sixth annual Florida Loquat…

  • Florida Loquat News #32 – February 2019

    Florida Loquat News #32 – February 2019

    2019 Florida Loquat News The Newsletter of The Florida Loquat Festival No. 32 February 10, 2019 Celebrating Florida’s Urban Fruit An Ecology Florida/Friendship Farms & Fare Annual Event Sixth Annual Florida Loquat Festival March 23, 2019 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Frances Avenue Park New Port Richey Mark Your Calendars Loquat grove laden with flowers…

  • Florida Loquat Festival Update – Event Edition – March 24, 2018

    Florida Loquat Festival Update – Event Edition – March 24, 2018

    Florida Loquat Festival Update March 2018 A Special Loquat Festival Update The Florida Loquat Festival Fifth Anniversary America’s Only Loquat Festival March 24, 2018 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Frances Avenue Park New Port Richey Commemorative Brochure The Florida Loquat Festival: Celebrating Florida’s Urban Fruit Fifth Annual Celebration March 24, 2018 Tentative Program 10:00 Welcome…

  • Florida Loquat Festival News #26 – November 2017

    Florida Loquat Festival News #26 – November 2017

    Florida Loquat News The Newsletter of The Florida Loquat Festival No. 26 November 27, 2017 Celebrating Florida’s Urban Fruit An Ecology Florida/Friendship Farms & Fare Annual Event Loquat Evening Announcing the 2018 Festival & Release of Leaves of Loquat, Vol. III December 11, 2017, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. New Port Richey Public Library The public…

  • Guest Column: What Irma Taught Us

    Guest Column: What Irma Taught Us

    What Irma Taught Us Dell deChant Remembering Donna I was six years old in 1960 when hurricane Donna scared the dickens out of me.  Irma followed a similar path, and I suspect it was just as scary to six-year-olds today as Donna was to me in our little house on Beach Drive in St. Petersburg.…

  • Florida Loquat Festival News #23 – June 2017

    Florida Loquat Festival News #23 – June 2017

    Florida Loquat Festival News – No. 23 June 2017 Celebrating Florida’s Urban Fruit An Ecology Florida/Friendship Farms & Fare Annual Event Florida Loquat News The Newsletter of The Florida Loquat Festival No. 23 June  17, 2017 Celebrating Florida’s Urban Fruit An Ecology Florida/Friendship Farms & Fare Annual Event  Here is Your Post-Festival issue of the…

  • Florida Loquat Festival News – No. 22

    Florida Loquat Festival News – No. 22

    Florida Loquat News The Newsletter of The Florida Loquat Festival No. 22 April 2017 2017 Festival Edition Celebrating Florida’s Urban Fruit An Ecology Florida/Friendship Farms & Fare Annual Event THIS COMING SATURDAY, APRIL 8 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. FLORIDA LOQUAT FESTIVAL Frances Avenue Park New Port Richey Getting There The 4th Annual Florida Loquat…