Mar 11, 2024 | All, Discover Citrus County, Discover Ocala, Local Resources, The Showcase 5 x 5
These days, planning a trip to the grocery store can sometimes make you feel like one of the Spartan soldiers at the Battle of Thermopylae. You’re fighting through the aisles with a wobbly cart that has one wheel that just won’t move, and you increasingly find...
Feb 16, 2024 | All, Buy, Discover Ocala, Equestrian, Iconic Horse Farms, Sell
Ask anyone in the horse world about Clyde Rice, and 90% of them will probably use words like ‘legend’ and ‘legacy’. In an incredibly competitive and exacting field, Rice was, to put it in pop culture terms, a superhero. He built a career of breeding thoroughbreds from...
Feb 5, 2024 | Discover Citrus County, Discover Ocala, Local Resources, The Showcase 5 x 5
We’re pretty lucky to live in a part of Florida with so much natural, pristine beauty around us and the bonus of a temperate winter climate. Central Floridians tend to be fairly outdoorsy; we’re horse people, farm people, water and boat people, and we just like being...
Oct 18, 2023 | All, Discover Ocala, Equestrian
If you live in Ocala – or really, anywhere near Marion County – you would have to be in an underground hermit cave not to have heard of the World Equestrian Center, lovingly referred to as WEC by those in the know. You’ve heard of Disney World, we presume? Well, WEC...
Oct 18, 2023 | All, Business Spotlight, Discover Ocala
Ocala and the greater Marion County area are, of course, most famous for the equine industry and our long history of all things horse. However, it might surprise even residents to find out there are some other powerhouse industries for which we’re becoming rather...
Oct 9, 2023 | Discover Citrus County, Discover Ocala, Local Resources, The Showcase 5 x 5
When the stuttering heat of summer in Florida finally begins to wane and temperatures lower to a bearable Autumnal level, that’s when Floridians start peeking outside and making plans. Suddenly there’s an explosion of community events all over the place; farmer’s...