Agriculture

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Masthead gallery: St Pete's Green Thumb Festival


Feature Story Tugboats helped maneuver ship traffic through Tampa Bay and surrounding waters.

Masthead gallery: Touring Port Tampa Bay


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Masthead gallery: USF Bull Bash plant market


For Good The St. Pete Youth Farm unveiled its new greenhouse to the public during a June 20 Juneteenth celebration.

In St Pete, youth-led farm blossoms in a food desert


The Tampa Bay region of Florida is ripe with urban and community garden spaces that feed people in cities, while rural farms continue to grow citrus, peaches, strawberries, blueberries, tomatoes, other veggies, ornamentals, trees, and even fish. Most fish, however, both shellfish -- like shrimp, oysters, clams, and crabs -- and the kind anglers go after -- such as grouper, snapper, pompano, and tarpon -- thrive in Gulf waters and local Bays.