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Local horticulturist shares passion for the indigenous beauty of Walton County

Go Native Tours with Snookie offers locals and visitors educational tours of natural habitats Local Florida Master Gardener and Master Naturalist, Snookie Parrish has a passion for nature and the outdoors. As one of the most recent additions to the Walton County Tourist Development Council’s list of certified nature outfitters, Snookie is now sharing her love of nature by offering guided tours. Appropriately named Go Native Tours with Snookie, she provides interpretive hiking, biking and walking tours in Walton County,...

Spiral garden one of the featured workshops at Enviromental Forum on Nov. 5

Learn how to create a garden with recycled materials Peter and Susan Horn of Artisan Builders in Santa Rosa Beach will be building a spiral garden as one of the featured workshops at the upcoming Walton County Tourist Development Council’s Environmental Forum on Nov. 5. Created as an organic, composting herb garden, the Horn’s spiral garden will be created with easy-to-find salvaged and recycled materials. Learn which herbs will attract birds and beneficial insects, add fresh new flavor to your...

Local naturalist tags monarch butterflies for migration study

Monarch beauties pass through the Florida Panhandle Joe Wyatt, naturalist at Hammock Bay in Freeport has been tagging Monarch butterflies for three years as part of a migration study with the University of Kansas. So far in this year’s study, Joe has tagged 68, finding the majority of the fluttering beauties feasting on Saltwater False-Willow, Narrowleaf Baccharis (Baccharis angustifolia) along the north shoreline of Choctawhatchee Bay in Choctaw Beach. Unlike most other insects in temperate climates, monarch butterflies cannot survive...