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Who says you can't know all those wild things growing in the field you didn't put there? Here's a chance to learn what they are for cheap. UC Publications is having a book sale and they are a deal until February 14.

Come and hear some new ideas to improve soils in Ventura County. Register Here: https://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=29019 For more information: ceventura.ucanr.

What are the effects of fire and smoke and ash and heat and all the other potential things that might affect plants and animal products that we eat?????? Can you simply wash off contaminants? What impact on the soil, itself? Does anything special need to be done to start producing food again?

There is a purpose Without their keen sense of smell, mosquitoes wouldn't get very far. They rely on this sense to find a host to bite and spots to lay eggs. And without that sense of smell, mosquitoes could not locate their dominant source of food: nectar from flowers.

The following is compiled from the January newsletter of the Ventura County ACP-HLB Task Force Results of November scouting trip are available for the Canine Detection Team A team of six dogs and three handlers from F1K9 scouted 20 citrus ranches in Ventura County between Nov. 18 and Nov. 22, 2019.