About Us

Naturally Florida is a podcast about Florida's natural areas and the wild things that live here.

This podcast is brought to you by UF/IFAS Extension's Natural Resources programs in Polk and Pinellas Counties.

Podcast Objectives:

• Introduce Floridians, and those visiting Florida, to the wild spaces around them and the wild things that live here
• Encourage co-existence with Florida's native plants, animals, and ecosystems
• Inspire listeners to seek out additional information and engage in citizen science projects to document Florida's biodiversity

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• Episode Learning Guides: Student Worksheets

  We're proud to present our brand new "Naturally Florida Learning Guides" for use with students, home-schooled youth, 4-H'ers, or even life-long learners!

  These learning guides are designed to be printed and used with students.

  If you are using our guides, please share some basic feedback with us - like what county you are in and how many learners participated. Each guide comes with a QR Code to an evaluation survey that can be completed in less than 2 minutes. Scan the QR Code on page 2 to access the survey.

  Season 1 - 2021

  • American White Pelicans Floridas Other Snowbird
  • Florida on Fire: Prescribed Fire in the Sunshine State
  • Birds and Their Houses: Cavity Nesters in Florida
  • (Part 2) Florida's Most Recognizable Reptile: the American Alligator
  • (Part 1) Florida's Most Recognizable Reptile: the American Alligator
  • Trees and People: An intro to urban forestry
  • Cuban Treefrogs, they're more than just a nuisance!
  • Wait, we have fireflies in Florida?
  • Where does rain go after it falls?
  • Lara's Favorite Species: The Green Anole

  Seasons 2, 3, and 4 are coming soon.

• Episode Transcripts

  Please see the transcripts for past episodes, below. 

  On each page, you'll find the episode intro, episode player (or you can use your favorite podcast platform), and an expandable "Show Notes" section with all the links we mention in each episode. 

  Season 3 - 2023

  • Transcripts coming soon!

  Season 2 - 2022

  • End of the Year Q&A 
  • Highlighting a Keystone Species: The Gopher Tortoise
  • It's Spooky Season, Let's Chat About Bats
  • All About Lightning
  • All About Owls
  • Rat Poisons and Wildlife: What’s the Big Deal
  • Microplastic Pollution ... What Is It?
  • Toads as Big as Your Head! Cane Toads in Florida
  • Coyotes are here to stay!
  • Special Interview with Dr. Scott Angle, UF Sr. Vice President of Agriculture and Natural Resources
  • Words Matter: When and How to Use the Words Invasive Species
  • Is It Getting Hotter in Our Cities? It's the Urban Heat Island Effect!

  Season 1 - 2021

  • American White Pelicans, Florida's Other Snowbird
  • Florida on Fire: Prescribed Fire in the Sunshine State
  • Birds and Their Houses: Cavity Nesters in Florida
  • (Part 2) Florida's Most Recognizable Reptile: the American Alligator
  • (Part 1) Florida's Most Recognizable Reptile: the American Alligator
  • Trees and People: An intro to urban forestry
  • Cuban Treefrogs, they're more than just a nuisance!
  • Wait, we have fireflies in Florida?
  • Where does rain go after it falls?
  • Lara's Favorite Species: The Green Anole
• Currently Broadcasting on ...

  Naturally Florida is hosted on Anchor.fm and distributed automatically among an RSS feed and the following common podcast apps.

  • Apple Podcasts
  • Spotify
  • Amazon Music 
  • Audible
  • Anchor 
  • Breaker
  • Castbox
  • Pocket Casts
  • RadioPublic

  Don't see your favorite podcast platform? You may be able to add our podcast manually, using our RSS Feed: https://anchor.fm/s/1b49f190/podcast/rss

• As seen in ...

  Naturally Florida is featured in the following news media,  

  • Fox 13 Tampa Bay (June 2025)
  • North Pinellas News (February 2023)
  • Tampa Bay Times (July 2021)
  • The Gabber (July 2021)
  • Podcast Business Journal (July 2021)

  Lara and Shannon were guests on the following podcasts,

  • Cast and Blast Florida, Episode: "Conversations #3.13: Naturally Florida, with Shannon Carnevale & Lara Milligan"
  • The Florida Spectacular, Episode 33: Naturally Florida podcast
  • Two Bees in a Podcast, Episode 82: Pristine Impairing Olfactory Associative Learning in Honey Bees and Naturally Florida Podcast & How to Collect Wax  

Listener Suggestions:

If you have a topic suggestion you would like to share, consider submitting it here: Topic Submission Form

If you have ideas for ways we can make this podcast better, consider sharing with us, here: Comment Submission Form

 

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iNaturalist Project: Naturally Florida's Listener Observations

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