Exploring the Ozarks Outdoors: freshare.net

Plant lovers, mark your calendars! May 10th is slated for the opening day of a new botanical garden in Fayetteville. 

The Botanical Garden of the Ozarks has been in the works for years and will be opening in…[more]

First of all: know what you want. If you need some ideas, visit the library or your local book store and browse through landscape books, garden and pond magazines. You can also search the web and read and study as…[more]

JEFFERSON CITY-Rex Martensen wasn’t thinking of tick-borne disease when he skinned a raccoon after a hunt on Christmas Day in 2005. He wasn’t thinking of the raccoon when he got sick. He thinks of both now, every time he works…[more]

The City of Springfield and Springfield-Greene County Park Board will participate in a collaborative effort to Reforest the Ozarks from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, April 14, at the Missouri Entertainment and Events Center, 3001 N. Grant Ave.

If hummingbirds have not yet reached your part of Missouri, they soon will. You can get up-to-date information on ruby-throated hummingbirds’ northward migration at http://www.hummingbirds.net/map.html.

The Web site is run by Fenton resident Lanny Chambers. He updates the…[more]

A recent study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine claims that individuals who regularly took midday naps were almost 40% less likely to die from heart disease than non-nappers. Researchers say their data suggest that by lowering levels of…[more]

A new report said people at a normal level of risk for colon cancer should avoid taking a regimen of aspirin or anti-inflammatory drugs because of possible adverse affects.

The results of a study conducted by the U.S.…[more]