Green Blog

June 18-24 is National Pollinator Week. Do you know where your pollinators are? Think bees, birds, butterflies, bats and beetles. And think flies. Especially syrphid flies, also known as "flower flies" and "hover flies.

A new UC Cooperative Extension podcast that focuses on growing orchard crops in the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys is now available free at http://growingthevalleypodcast.com, Apple iTunes and Google Play Music.

Californians can help in the fight against invasive species by learning and participating during California Invasive Species Action Week, June 210.

Sweeping acres of striking golden flowers may soon grace California's desert southwest. UC Cooperative Extension irrigation specialist Khaled Bali believes sunflowers may be an ideal crop for the state's most punishing agricultural region.

The strawberry industry ended a long good-bye to methyl bromide in 2016. The fumigant had been used for decades to kill a wide range of soil-borne pathogens, weed seeds and insects, permitting the California strawberry industry to flourish.