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Elkus Ranch Environmental Education Center: Event

2025 Elkus Ranch Fall Camp

Nov 24, 2025

Experience the magic of autumn at Elkus Ranch Fall Camp! Children will enjoy two days of fun with animals, crafts, learning, and play in a beautiful outdoor setting. Designed for kids ages 6–11, the camp offers hands-on activities that inspire curiosity, creativity, and a love for nature.
Elkus Ranch Environmental Education Center
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A blue orchard bee, Osmia lignaria. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Go Wild About Wild Bees at Bohart Museum of Entomology Open House

November 7, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
 "Have you ever wondered what pollinators are visiting your garden or what that black-and-yellow striped bug was? In California, we have an incredible diversity of insects, which may be more difficult to tell apart than you realize. At this interactive event, you will learn how to identify bees and…
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Under the Solano Sun: Article

Overpruned Trees

November 7, 2025
By Jennifer M Baumbach
Blog by Brenda AltmanTrees are pruned for many reasons. Sometimes they are pruned to remove crowding or competing branches, which open up the canopy; other times they are pruned for safety reasons, a branch may be too low, or they might be trimmed for ornamental or aesthetic reasons. I cannot figure out why…
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UC Master Food Preservers of Central Sierra: Event

Central Sierra: Amador County | Master Food Preserver| Sumptuous Salmon (Jackson)

Feb 7, 2026

*Updated Class Description* The Master Food Preservers of Amador County invite you to a comprehensive pressure canning class. This class will demonstrate the safe and effective preservation of salmon fillets using professional pressure canning techniques. We also will demonstrate how to make gravlax. …
UC Master Food Preservers of Central Sierra
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A tidy garden bed

Preparing Your Garden For Winter

November 7, 2025
By Michael Lecours
By Cindy Watter, UC Master Gardener of Napa County.   We recently had our first rain of the fall season, followed by a cold morning.  Sure enough, when I walked outside later that day, all my soft-stemmed herbs were dead.  Fare thee well, basil, thyme and stevia.  Even the sage looked…
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Placer County 4-H: Page

Returning Adult Volunteers

Welcome Back to 4-H!Thank you for your continued support as a 4-H adult volunteer. You play an important role in the development of young people, helping them to identify their spark and develop the skills and positive outcomes that lead to thriving. Below are the steps to being reappointed as a volunteer…
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NVT2026-Trainees-Rivertown-by Dawn K.
UC Master Gardener Program of Contra Costa County: Page

Hybrid Learning, Hands-On Growth

 Introducing the 2026 New Volunteer Training Class 2025 Fall TLD Article & Photo by Dawn Kooyumjian, CoCoMG Program CoordinatorI want to extend a warm welcome to our new trainees—the soon-to-be Class of 2026! It is an absolute pleasure getting to know everyone.  You bring a wide range of…
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Strawberries and Caneberries: Article

Explaining a Topic in 30 Seconds, the Challenge for Extensionists and Educators

November 7, 2025
By Mark P Bolda
I have been been granted the opportunity to convince a pretty high level group to continue funding for research work that I am leading on the cold conditioning of strawberry.  The time slot to do so however is ten minutes.  The subject of cold conditioning in strawberry is a complex one, and one…
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Cooperative Extension, Sutter-Yuba Counties: Event

Third Thursday Things from the Field - IPM Review - 2025

Nov 20, 2025

🌳 November “Third Thursday Things from the Field” — Sacramento Valley Tree Crop IPM ReviewDate: Thursday, November 20, 2025 Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Location: UCCE Sutter-Yuba Office, 142A Garden Highway, Yuba CityJoin UCCE IPM and Orchard Advisors for our November Third Thursday Things from the Field session…
Cooperative Extension, Sutter-Yuba Counties
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