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Thriving Forward: Article

Digging into Youth Development

April 21, 2025
By Matthew R Rodriguez
Healthy Soil > Healthy Plants Spring is the season where gardeners start prepping, planting, and pampering their gardens. As a gardener newbie myself, I am learning how to grow peas, long day onions, garlic, and other plants. To help me learn, I have several trusted colleagues that I can consult,…
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UC Master Gardeners of San Mateo & San Francisco Counties: Event

Laurel Street Container Garden Tour

Apr 30, 2025

Join the UC Master Gardeners of San Mateo & San Francisco Counties for a free educational walking tour of the 25 round plant containers along Laurel Street. Learn how they selected the wide variety of beautiful plants you’ll see, and how to plant and care for them.The tour begins in front of Wells Fargo…
UC Master Gardeners of San Mateo & San Francisco Counties
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Sheep To Shawl 2025
Elkus Ranch Environmental Education Center: Event

Sheep To Shawl 2025

Jun 7, 2025

Watch our sheep being sheared, see spinning demonstrations, dye some wool, visit our friendly livestock and gardens. Enjoy a snack for lunch in our picnic area.
Elkus Ranch Environmental Education Center
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John Pehrson, standing behind a walker, smiles under the John E. Pehrson Hall sign on the building named in his honor.
ANR Employee News: Article

In memoriam: John E. Pehrson

April 21, 2025
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
 John E. Pehrson, UC Cooperative Extension citrus specialist emeritus, died on Jan. 30 in La Verne. He was 97. Pehrson joined UCCE as a farm advisor in 1953 for Orange County, moved to UCCE in Tulare County as a citrus advisor in 1966, then became a …
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UC Master Gardeners of Butte County: Event

Garden Raised Beds NEW

May 3, 2025

Gardeners do less bending and stooping with raised beds, so tasks like weeding, watering, and replanting are much easier on the body. It is also easier to control soil texture, fertility, and tilth, and pests can be repelled by adding gopher wiring beneath the beds and copper barriers around their edges…
UC Master Gardeners of Butte County
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UC Master Gardeners of Butte County: Event

Honeybees

Oct 7, 2025

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to keep a hive of honeybees? Humans have been fascinated by the honeybee for a very, very long time: evidence of beekeeping goes back at least 9,000 years, and humans collected honey from wild bees before that. In this class you’ll have an opportunity to observe…
UC Master Gardeners of Butte County
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Tomatoes on a tray
UC Master Gardeners of San Mateo & San Francisco Counties: Article

It's Tomato Time!

April 19, 2025
By Cathrin Callas
 Nothing is better than a home-grown tomato. There are so many varieties from which to choose, you'll want to plant more than one if you have the space. Tomatoes do grow well in large containers. Plant your seedlings when daytime temperatures are consistently well above 55°F. Choose a location where the…
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Stick insect from Bohart Museum of Entomology crawling on arm. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

When Insects Popped Up--And a Lobster Did, Too

April 18, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Bug Squad Blog By Kathy Keatley Garvey When the Bohart Museum of Entomology erected its pop-up tent on the Briggs Hall lawn during the recent campuswide UC Davis Picnic Day, insects popped up.They included walking sticks (stick insects) and a few specimens from the Bohart Museum's global collection of…
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Fields of CA Poppies

Wonderful Wildflower Walks

April 18, 2025
By Anne E Schellman
 Imagine the California Central Valley being carpeted from one end to the other with wildflowers in the spring. When the Scottish naturalist John Muir first came over the Sierra Nevada mountains in the spring during late 1800s, he wrote: “At my feet lay the Great Central Valley of California, level and…
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