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VIRTUAL TOUR

At Sarasota County Extension, we pride ourselves on connecting with and helping our community. As a partnership between the University of Florida and Sarasota County, we bring the science of the university to educate the community on issues important to our residents and businesses. A key element of that is designing our facility and landscape to demonstrate best practices in green building, energy and water efficiency, sustainable landscaping, composting, stormwater management, and more.

This virtual tour showcases many of those features, sharing with viewers and visitors the array of benefits, the science and information behind them, and how to apply them at home, in the workplace, and elsewhere. It allows anyone to explore the environmental initiatives and beautiful settings that make the Sarasota County Extension complex special, through short video segments available to in-person and online visitors.

Stops are organized by broad theme, to help visitors navigate the tour by interest and to better envision the programs and information available through Extension. Find helpful information about: ecology and natural resources; Florida-Friendly Landscaping™; gardening; horticulture; sustainability; waste reduction; and water resources.

Detailed instructions for use:

  • Use the map, below, to note the locations of tour stops.
  • Click an icon on the map to get a brief description about the tour stop there. Icon designs correspond to topic category (e.g., white faucet on blue background to represent water resources), for visitors interested in a particular topic or focus.
  • For in-person visitors:
    • Locate a tour stop of interest and related sign on our Extension office grounds (all stops are outside).
    • Find the QR code on the sign, and use the camera or QR code reader on your smartphone or table to open the related video.
    • Use the map to find the next tour stop, and repeat the steps above.
  • For online visitors:
    • Navigate to tiny.cc/ufsaraext_virtualtour to start, with a tour introduction.
    • View tour stop videos individually by clicking on provided links.
      —OR—
      View the entire playlist, with tour stop videos grouped by topic.
  • Tour stop videos generally run 60-90 seconds, and contain information about a single topic.
  • Information provided with each video includes links to videos for each of the tour stops.

Now, get started on your journey, and we hope you find this tour useful and enjoyable.

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