Florida Plant Nursery Businesses Grow During Stifling Pandemic

When Yazmin Almaraz and Nadia Mourad saw COVID coming just months after they opened their own plant business, they didn’t know what would happen. Now they’re regular vendors at local markets and will open their first permanent greenhouse nursery in March. 

As the pandemic shut some small businesses’ doors, it kept many plant nurseries not just open, but thriving. The industry’s typical slow winter season never came and sales continued to climb. 

https://www.wuft.org/news/2021/03/08/plant-nurseries-grow-in-stifling-pandemic/

Do Florida lawmakers want to make it harder to sue sugar farmers?

 A bill moving through the Senate would limit who can file cases for property damage to those living within a half mile of a farm. It would also raise the standard for people to prove farmers are flouting established rules or best practices.

A state senator says environmentalists are misreading his bill. They say he’s responding to a recent lawsuit.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2021/03/08/do-florida-lawmakers-want-to-make-it-harder-to-sue-sugar-farmers/

Florida business groups wade into wetlands permitting fight

 

 The Florida Chamber of Commerce and a major developers’ group are seeking to intervene in a high-stakes lawsuit over a move by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to shift permitting authority to the state for projects that affect wetlands.

 

https://www.floridatrend.com/article/30837/fridays-daily-pulse#link4

 

 

 

 

 

Building a Nation Connected by Trails

 https://www.nar.realtor/blogs/spaces-to-places/building-a-nation-connected-by-trails