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UC Master Food Preserver: Article

All About Apples: Which are Best for Your Recipe? (November 2025)

October 31, 2025
Tim Long, UC Master Food Preserver Online Program Volunteer Red Delicious apples at the market (Photo caption: Tim Long, used with permission).  If you’re looking for a native apple tree, you’ll to be disappointed. Apples, other than three varieties of crabapples, aren’t native to the Americas…
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UC Master Food Preserver: Article

Spotlight: Mary Nazara, Class of 2025 MFP Volunteer (November 2025)

October 31, 2025
Mary Nazara, UC Master Food Preserver Online Program VolunteerCounty of residence: Los Angeles Mary Nazara, used with permission.  I started preserving in the summer of 2022 after a phone call from my sister. She had a tree full of ripe plums and didn’t want them to go to waste. I already had…
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A witch at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's Halloween party.

Bohart Museum: Big on 'The Boo' and 'The Hiss'

October 31, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
 Boo! Hiss! Boo! A melodrama? No! A pre-Halloween party at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of Caliornia, Davis. Witches boo, and Madagascar hissing cockroaches (from the Bohart Museum's petting zoo) hiss. If you're a member of the Bohart Museum Society, arm of the…
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Fresno Gardening Green: Article

This week in the garden: Oct. 31 to Nov. 6

October 31, 2025
By Jeannette Warnert
Shorter days mean less time in the garden; peruse gardening websites, magazines and seed catalogs instead.TasksStake newly planted trees in windy areas.Clean up debris to eliminate hiding places for pests. Or consider leaving fallen leaves and debris where they are, as many beneficial insects lay their eggs…
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