San Antonio nonprofit giving away 100 fruit trees this weekend

San Antonio-based nonprofit Gardopia Gardens will give away 100 fruit trees at the Pearl Farmers Market this Saturday. Gardenia's giveaway program, which started in 2020, will allow home gardeners to pick from a variety of fruit trees, including plum, fig, pecan and pear.

San Antonio Zoo hatches 22 critically endangered tortoises

The San Antonio Zoo has hatched 22 critically endangered Burmese Mountain Tortoises as part of a program that aims to reintroduce them back into their natural habitat, officials there said Friday. The birth of the reptiles is significant since Burmese Mountain Tortoises are being hunted to near exti

San Antonio's Chava Communications buys the Current and three other publications

The San Antonio Current has a new — and locally based — owner. Alamo City-headquartered Chava Communications this week acquired the Current along with the independent publications Cleveland Scene, Orlando Weekly and Creative Loafing Tampa from Cleveland's Euclid Media Group. The deal also included L

New funding from USDA backs beekeeping-centric program at UTSA

After UTSA became an R1 university in 2021, it's no surprise a mounting stream of exciting research and new student opportunities is coming out of the college. In June, the university announced that UTSA Department of Integrative Biology Assistant Professor of Practice Ferhat Ozturk had landed a maj