Agriculture

Get It Growing calendar entry deadline nearing

The deadline for “budding” and experienced photographers to submit their best photos for the LSU AgCenter’s 2025 Get It Growing calendar is rapidly approaching.
The deadline for entries is March 31.

Getting pickled out of your garden and refrigerator

With refrigerator pickling you can get creative in the kitchen and experiment with pickling a variety of out-of-the-ordinary fruits and vegetables. This small batch method of pickling is easy to do and is ready to eat in a day or two.

Here’s The Beef Cook-off

The 38th annual Here’s the Beef Cook-off held Saturday at the Ag Arena in Opelousas. Sponsors are St.

It was a rice plan to save us from The Bomb

In the middle 1950s, when the Cold War was at its hottest and we were being drilled on how to survive when the Commies dropped The Bomb on us, an LSU scientist said he’d found just the thing to save us.
Rice hulls.

Give food a second life – Rebuild your soil

From the Eunice
Bulb and Blossom
Garden Club
Scraps from food that feeds people can take on a second life by fertilizing the plants that feed people. What an amazing chemical free cycle if implemented.