- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Wire services make it interesting to see where UC Cooperative Extension experts might end up. This one's a little mysterious. If anyone can shed some light, please post a comment.
The Columbia Tribune in Missouri ran a McClatchy story yesterday that quoted UC Cooperative Extension farm advisor Glenn Nader. (McClatchy owns the Sacramento Bee, the Fresno Bee and other papers, but I couldn't find this story on any other Web site.)
The article is about efforts to get cattle to put on pounds while eating less. My first thought was the same as the article's writer, who said the premise "sounds like something out of a dieter’s...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Writer Alison Rood knew where to turn when she wondered about pulling out her lawn and decided to write about it. Her column in the San Francisco Chronicle included expert advice from a UCCE master gardener and a UCCE horticulture advisor.
The picture of her backyard looked quite nice to me, but she lamented that the lawn no longer served a useful purpose. Rood contacted master gardener Sandy Metzger.
Metzger told Rood she replaced most of her own lawn with drought-tolerant perennials and ornamental grasses. "The hummingbirds, bees and other insects go crazy in the garden practically all year long," Metzger is...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Considering the season, it is unsurprising that the media has chosen to cover two UCCE stories in which giving plays a key role.
The Napa Valley Register today covered a 4-H meeting in which the founder of a local community support group spoke. According to the article, Molly Banz created Molly’s Angels 13 years ago to help people in need.
4-H parent Molly Donohoe said she had been thinking about getting involved in the program for several years. When the family became involved in 4-H, she said, the idea took root.
“We love 4-H because the whole family is involved. It encompasses all the...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Friday is a good day to wrap up the loose ends, so here are a variety of news articles in which UC Cooperative Extension wasn't a major part of the story, but in which UCCE academics made contributions.
Great Park
If you don't live in Orange County, you may not have heard of the "Great Park," a planned public facility on an old marine base to be double the size of New York's Central Park. Orange County UCCE director John Kabashima was at a recent planning meeting covered by the Orange County Register. The story said Kabashima offered help in planning and using food grown at the park to feed...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The San Diego Union-Tribune ran a story Dec. 9 about the concerns of avocado and citrus farmers in the southernmost county about their dwindling water allocations. The story says Southern California is grappling with one of the worst water shortages in decades, and no one faces a more uncertain future than the region's estimated 3,500 to 4,000 farmers. According to the article, most of the farmers will have to reduce their water usage by 30 percent come January.
For comment, reporter Alex Roth went to UC Cooperative Extension farm advisor Gary Bender.
“I think we're going to have some people go belly-up,” Bender is quoted....
