Leap Lab Florida

05/02/2026

05/02/2026

Leap Lab's spring planting is blowing up

04/05/2026

Good evening Facebook friends -

Leap Lab Florida is preparing for our big Paleo Camp Expedition 2026 at a new ranch site in eastern Wyoming. We are seeking sponsorship to cover vehicle rental and air travel expenses for three IRSC students interested in attending camp this year along with other incidental expenses. We can accommodate two more participants as well. If you can help sponsor paleo camp this year or would like to attend please contact me via Messenger.

Please share or forward to interested parties.

03/25/2026

03/22/2026

Leap Lab Florida completed the planting of the two beds we set up in January. Luckily our planting delay allowed us to miss the big freeze. Look for updates on the gardens progress in the weeks ahead along with some big developments in our future garden projects.

07/26/2025

We're set for the plant sale! We have canistel, Surinam cherry, gumbo limbo, mango and a few surprises thrown in. Come see us from 9-12 and support Leap Lab Florida, a great local not for profit.

06/30/2025

Food prices going up

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Tony DiMare’s family owns 4,000 acres of tomato farms across Florida and California. Sadly, his Florida crops are not looking good — mowed over and left to r...

06/26/2025

Bed #4 is framed out and we hope to rebuild bed #5 soon to get all five of the original beds at the teaching garden location back into the rotation. Worked in the rain today to complete #4.

06/24/2025

Yes it is hotter - and drier:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16ZLhiqSd4/

Number of 95 degree days in 4 of Florida’s largest cities. You guessed it. All going up. Is it urbanization? Or is it greenhouse heating?
You betcha!
It’s both. And both are “human-caused”.
Most other FL cities that I looked at, highly urban and more rural, show same trend (Lakeland, Pensacola, Sarasota, Ft Myers etc…) Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk!
Note: this is simply raw data plotted. No algorithms.
No averaging.
No cherry picking.
And BTW: concrete and asphalt doesn’t explain why all the oceans are significantly warming, so although urbanization does contribute on the local level, it is a very small contributor to the global trend.

04/12/2025

Come check out Leap Lab Florida tomorrow at Oxbow Eco-Center's Earth Day Celebration! We now have Pleistocene fossils collected in St. Lucie County!

Over 70 local organizations and businesses will share hands-on activities throughout the gardens and trails of the preserve.