In communities around the Ocala National Forest, bears overturn garbage cans, walk through porch screens, raid bird feeders and jump up and down on Dumpster lids to scrounge food. Complaints about Florida black bears are rising as the state's population expands into bear country and the bear population recovers from decades of hunting. If one person in a neighborhood puts out garbage the night before a trash pickup in a bear population area, bears may continue to raid garbage cans for...

I used gourds for eyes, corn for eyebrows and corn husks for hair (its hair was originally straight up, but now it has "relaxed" in our rainy weather) I know the other shoppers at the grocery store must have considered me the pickiest zucchini shopper ever! I used finishing nails and double-sided tape to keep the veggies on. The trick is to find just the right zucchini for the smile not too fat, not too straight. A few brave readers in the ghoulish Halloween spirit sent us pictures of...

This pie tastes just like the infamous "Pecan Pie," but, without the calories or the allergic reation of nuts and sodium doesn't exist. Instructions Cream together the applesauce, granulated sugar and spices in a saucepan over low heat. Pour into, ready to bake pie shell and bake in 350-degree oven for about an hour or until knife inserted in center of pie comes out clean. How "great" can this be for all of us that crave a holdiay "pecan pie. Gradually stir in corn syrup and brown sugar....

Charles Grassley, who sides with Bush on many issues, said farmers rely on the river the most to get corn and soybeans to foreign buyers, but the aging locks most are 600 feet long are too small to accommodate modern 1,100-foot tows. In a time when fiscal restraint is much needed, the additional spending authorized in this bill, such as provisions for local wastewater and drinking water infrastructure projects (hundreds of millions of dollars), is unacceptable, according to a White House...

Sherrod Brown credited an Ohio farmer with planting the seed this year that led to a proposal to overhaul federal agriculture subsidies. It was during Brown's "farm tour" that Henry County farmer Mark Schweibert introduced the freshman senator, and member of the agriculture committee, to the idea of replacing subsidies based on flagging crop prices with subsidies based on protecting the overall revenue flowing to a farmer's bottom line. It was during Brown's "farm tour" that Henry County...

The Company is focusing its efforts in an area which offers abundant supplies of corn, superior transportation infrastructure and expedited permitting processes. The interview provides an overview of the Southridge strategy to pursue production plans in the Southeastern United States while continuing to successfully explore several other projects and create shareholder value. Investor Television - iTV has wide distribution and our message will be broadly distributed to a marketplace and...

They don't get that candy shouldn't attempt to imitate other food groups, particularly corn. While dieters stock up on candy they don't like so they won't be tempted by leftovers, the rest of us buy the stuff we do like and hope that only one or two of those pesky little costumed punks comes a-knocking. They have contradictory personalities, hoping to express generosity but also having the passive-aggressive desire to damage the fillings of trick-or-treaters. We not only provide the...

If I'd been the grandson of a rich family, I'd have had an aristocratic birth, and all my friends and all my culture would have been marked by a sense of superiority. There wasn't a town, or even a village, just a few isolated houses in a landscape regularly shaken by hurricanes, cyclones, waterspouts and earthquakes. The road that passed through the settlement, the old Camino Real, was nothing more than a mud track along which people travelled on horseback or in ox carts. Not far from my...

The new company imports bean from 14 countries, makes a coffee that is decaffeinated by the Swiss water process and offers chemical-free flavored blends. But Wooledge, who recently gave up her nursing job in Lincoln to devote herself full time to her business, is thinking about renaming the product again. Looking for something a little different, she created a line of funky stained-glass sun catchers, primarily cats and dogs, that Gren says are little cheery symbols of innocence. It uses...