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News from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

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Updates Planned.
Nursery and landscape professionals can learn the latest about their growing businesses in two in late October. The first, for landscapers, will be Oct. 28 in Tallahassee, Fla. The second, for nursery professionals, will be Oct. 29 in Cairo, Ga.
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Brooks Awards.
Four University of Georgia faculty received the D.W. Brooks Awards for Excellence Oct. 4 in Athens. The $5,000 annual awards went to Roger Wyatt, teaching; Scott NeSmith, research; Elizabeth Andress, extension; and Steven Brady, county extension programming.
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Wildflower Pesticides.
Wildflowers aren't only beautiful and easy to maintain. They could soon be used in your home landscape as natural pesticides.
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Monkey Grass.
Why is it called "monkey grass"? Even "The Georgia Gardener" doesn't know for sure. But on his GPTV show Oct. 7 and 9, host Walter Reeves visits with Wally Pressey at Classic Groundcovers in Athens to learn some interesting facts.
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Emergency Food.
Whether or not you think Y2K is going to affect your family's food supply, having an emergency food supply is a good idea for other reasons.
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Creative Water Sources.
Sometimes having water during emergencies, whether it's a weather related disaster or Y2K, means knowing where to look.
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Can Water?
University of Georgia experts say many people have asked them whether they can "can" water for emergencies. Their answer? Yes, you can, but you don't really need to.
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Home PCs and Y2K.
Everyone's worried about how Y2K will affect computers at the bank, at work and at the local power company. But what about your home computer? Have you prepared it for the year 2000?
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Water Stash.
Come hurricanes, tornados or even Y2K, you can have your eight glasses of water per day if you stock up now.
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Small Fruit Site.
Just in time to send out important information to farmers hit by Hurricane Floyd, the Southern Region Small Fruit Center is up and running. The virtual center, begun Sept. 17, was a year in the making.