Celery fields in Fruitville. T.J. and John Bell were known as the celery kings of Florida and moved to Sarasota from Sanford at the request of the Palmer family in 1925. The Bells also had producing ...

Sarasota Audubon and the Big Waters Land Trust celebrated the start this week of the "re-wilding" of the Quad Parcels, 33 acres near the Celery Fields, an effort to make parcels at the northeast, ...

Green farmland east of the Celery Fields in north Sarasota County will be protected in perpetuity, under a new conservation agreement. A private landowner and the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf ...

Environmentalists in Sarasota County are gearing up for a fight to stop plans for a high-density housing development next to the ecologically sensitive Celery Fields. The development would be on 26 ...

The Sarasota County Commission resoundingly rejected a proposed housing development near the Celery Fields, after hours of public comment on Wednesday. It was a marathon public hearing that began ...

SARASOTA, Fla. — Despite the Sarasota Planning Commission's recommendation to deny a rezoning permit, neighbors are still monitoring a development proposal for private land near the Celery Fields.

SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A developer hopes to rezone a piece of property off Raymond Road in Sarasota County from rural to residential. If that happens, a nearly 50 acre farm property could ...

Environmentalists in Sarasota County are gearing up for a fight to stop plans for a high-density housing development next to the ecologically sensitive Celery Fields. The development would be on 26 ...

Visitors to Celery Fields in Sarasota were concerned when they spotted a misshapen alligator, but the Sarasota County ...

Sometimes when you start a hobby, you have no idea how it might change your life. That was the case for Helen King, a bird naturalist at the Sarasota Audubon Society. “I didn’t become a birder until I ...

Any birder will tell you that turkey vultures can be a huge disappointment. You’ll see one on a cloudless day, its five-foot wingspan in a midair glide, and mistake it for something exciting, one of ...