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Match.Graze

In the wake of the devastating wildfires that have affected California in the past few years, many municipalities adopted stringent weed abatement & fire code enforcement policies. This has led to a demand for cost effective, practical vegetation management services such as contract grazing.
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Central Sierra: Agriculture | Small Farms Information

Why do you want to farm? Why do you want to get into the farming business? Is farming for you? From these basic questions, many more granular questions follow: What does record keeping for livestock and farm businesses look like? What are best practices for marketing and selling any particular product? What…
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Central Sierra: Volunteering with UCCE

Fingerprint Clearance from the Department of Justice (DOJ) All UCCE Volunteers (Master Gardener trainees, Master Food Preserver trainees, and 4-H Volunteers) need to be fingerprinted and pass a DOJ/FBI background check.
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Concours d’Elegance

Concours dElegance is an antique and classic car show held at Ironstone Winery in Murphys. It is a fund raiser for 4-H in the foothill counties, FFA, and State Fair scholarships.
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Livestock & Oak Rangeland Articles

Cattle on Oak Rangeland Driving around the foothills the lack of winter rain is clearly evident from the extremely dry rangelands still brown and dry from summer to the obvious shortage of water in the lakes and reservoirs.
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