I started gardening for my health several years ago. It was a solitary exercise that provided huge health benefits for me. It didn’t occur to me to ever include my children until one day they kept talking about how bored...
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Over two years ago, The Patterson Foundation invited the Friends of Sarasota County Parks to an information session about how to enhance the financial sustainability of our organization to achieve greater social impact. Huh? Exactly … the invitation came from...
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Ready to discover your super powers? July is Park and Recreation Month! Come out to our parks - see, learn new skills, meet fun people and have more fun! Here's what's going on - read our monthly e-newsletter sharing our nature...
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This is your chance to design a park that's for kids! Come out Saturday June 25th and help make Tuscano Park as fun as it can be! Fun creating a fun park! [caption id="attachment_4939" align="alignleft" width="575"] Design Tuscano Park![/caption]
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From Mangroves to spiders, from Shamrock Park to Lemon Bay, Sarasota County has it all going on in its parks, recreational facilities, and nature reserves. Check out the family-friendly archaeological event at Phillippi of yore, or search for flowers at...
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Edson Keith Mansion to host free, family-friendly archaeology event on Saturday, June 25 The June 25 archaeology event at Phillippi Estate Park will include hands-on demonstrations of atlatls, tools used by the Manasota Indians who inhabited the park grounds about...
Read MoreThe Friends of Sarasota County Parks launched their entrepreneurial community enterprise, Shade Is Good, at the October 8th Fast Pitch session of No Margin No Mission, supported by The Patterson Foundation. "For more than a dozen years, I have been a volunteer...
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