Mitchell Mote News Today

(MURFREESBORO) As the heat of summer lingers and we move slowly into the fall season, gardens can often look dull, tired and tattered. The blooms of many beloved summer favorites (lilies, daylilies, and coneflowers, just to name a few) have faded, leaving gardeners longing for a flash of late season color to rejuvenate spirits. That's why you need to attend the free LAWN CARE FIELD DAY. It's not this Saturday morning, but the next one--September 9, 2023 from 9:00-11:00AM at the Lane Ag...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Emily Beavers, a rising junior in the MTSU Fermentation Science program, is the second recipient of the Brewing Education Scholarship awarded by Athens, Georgia-based Terrapin Brewing Co.20-Year-old Beavers, who is from Dunlap, Tennessee, recently learned she would be the 2022 beneficiary of a $10,000 award during a Zoom session with Terrapin and MTSU representatives. Agriculture is everywhere and runs strong t...

(Rutherford County, TN) Gardeners will be please to know that now is the time to plant warm weather plants, according to Mitchell Mote with the Rutherford County / UT Extension Service…Mote highlighted a few of his favorite warm season crops…They are called warm season crops because they don’t tolerate frost.If you need help with your garden, you can always bring a soil sample to the Agriculture Extension office in Murfreesboro to find out what you may need to add...