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Bulbs can be forced by providing the environmental conditions to encourage growth. (LSU AgCenter file photo)

Bulbs can be forced by providing the environmental conditions to encourage growth. (LSU AgCenter file photo)

Forcing bulbs for indoor winter flowers

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, November 18, 2022
The late winter months may lack color in the landscape, but with proper planning and a little effort, you can create an early spring indoors or make a beautiful gift by forcing your own succession of hardy bulbs. Bulbs are perennial plants that overwinter as fleshy, underground structures.

Salvation Army Christmas event features Delafose

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, November 18, 2022
Join the Salvation Army to pass a good time to the music of Zydeco artist and performer Geno Delafose. Angels from the Angel Tree Program will be available for adoption. Bell ringers will be ringing the bells at the Red Kettle.
LAFAYETTE — Ernest J. Gaines, whose considerable imprint on American letters and culture rests on his examinations of race, class and poverty, will be depicted on a postage stamp to be issued in January. The internationally acclaimed author, who died in November 2019 at age 86, was UL Lafayette writer-in-residence emeritus; he taught creative writing at the University from 1983 until his retirement in 2010. The stamp, which the United States Postal Service announced in October, will be the 46th in its Black

LAFAYETTE — Ernest J. Gaines, whose considerable imprint on American letters and culture rests on his examinations of race, class and poverty, will be depicted on a postage stamp to be issued in January. The internationally acclaimed author, who died in November 2019 at age 86, was UL Lafayette writer-in-residence emeritus; he taught creative writing at the University from 1983 until his retirement in 2010. The stamp, which the United States Postal Service announced in October, will be the 46th in its Black

Ernest J. Gaines to appear on postage stamp in January

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, November 11, 2022
Ernest J. Gaines, whose considerable imprint on American letters and culture rests on his examinations of race, class and poverty, will be depicted on a postage stamp to be issued in January.

Louisiana Treasury receives $8M in uncashed tax refunds

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, November 11, 2022
State Treasurer John Schroder has confirmed that athe Louisiana Treasury Unclaimed Property Program is in receipt of more than $8 million in uncashed state income tax refunds from the Louisiana Department of Revenue (LDR).
Crystal Besse, left, director of the LSU AgCenter Louisiana Farm to School Program, walks through a squash field with Opelousas farmers Betty and John Chenier. Photo provided by the Louisiana Farm to School Program

Crystal Besse, left, director of the LSU AgCenter Louisiana Farm to School Program, walks through a squash field with Opelousas farmers Betty and John Chenier. Photo provided by the Louisiana Farm to School Program

Winter squash is November’s ‘Louisiana Harvest of the Month’

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, November 4, 2022
Native Americans taught the Puritan settlers many things about life in America, including how to grow and prepare winter squash — a food they had never seen before but that would soon gain popularity and become a regular seasonal planting.

Loggers prayed as fervently as farmers

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, November 4, 2022
In the late 1800s, before narrow-gauge railroads crisscrossed the piney woods of southwest Louisiana, loggers prayed just as fervently as farmers for just the right amount of rain. It wasn’t because they wanted the trees to grow. It was so that they could get their logs to the sawmills.
Anthocyanin pigments are responsible for purple and maroon colors of leaves in fall. (Photos by Heather Kirk-Ballard/LSU AgCenter)

Anthocyanin pigments are responsible for purple and maroon colors of leaves in fall. (Photos by Heather Kirk-Ballard/LSU AgCenter)

The science of fall foliage color change

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, November 4, 2022
Shorter, cooler days bring brilliant foliage color changes for many trees and shrubs in fall. This time of year can be very beautiful as green leaves give way to brilliant colors of gold, orange, maroon, red and yellow. The reason for this color change?