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Come visit our education booth, information booth, and demonstration garden at the Merced County Fair from Wednesday June 5th to Sunday June 9th.

Join us on May 11,2024 for a free community workshop on Drip Irrigation: Containers, Landscape, Garden, & Orchard.

Judith Lowry, proprietor of Larner Seeds in Bolinas for 47 years, will describe various aspects of what she has learned in the fields of backyard restoration gardening, seed-growing, and interaction with the gardening public.

Are you raising livestock? Interested in wildlife? Wonder how the two can co-exist? Join us for a workshop at Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue (SCWR) to explore ways to co-exist with carnivores while successfully raising domestic animals.

This webinar is for commercial & noncommercial apple & pear growers, landscapers & orchard professionals. Learn from: Dr. Jim Adaskaveg, Professor & Plant Pathologist Rachel Elkins, UCCE Pomology Advisor Emeritus Dr. Broc Zoller, PCA & CCA, The Pear Doctor Register here to receive the Zoom link.

You thought you knew fog? Theres so much more to this phenomenon in nature, myth, and mystery. FOG. Clarifying the cloudy, fuzzy, misty, murky, soupy thing we live with. Dr. Dennis Baldocchi, Professor of Biometerology at UC Berkeley serves as our beacon. Learn more at the event website.

UCCE MG-Yolo Treva Valentine will go over what needs to be done in the edible garden in March, what to plant, what to harvest and other important chores. She will also share details about starting edibles from seed and how to prepare the soil. Zoom link: https://ucanr.zoom.

Integrated pest management, or IPM, is a process you can use to solve pest problems in your garden while minimizing risks to people and the environment.

Our annual Spring Plant Sale features seasonal herbs and vegetables ready for the garden as well as water-wise plants, including California native plants and shrubs, carefully selected bulbs, pollinator-friendly plants, a variety of salvias and sages, and succulents, and indoor plants.