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There are positive, impactful actions you can take in your own garden and community to adapt to climate change. This talk offers concrete, achievable, science-based means to use in your own garden for carbon sequestration, food security, plant and animal habitat, and increased resilience in extreme…
Experienced Master Gardeners will provide valuable information and critical resources as you begin to build your gardening skills. Providing fresh vegetables for your family and enriching your garden with perennials that feed pollinators can bring great change to your garden environment. Knowing where to…
Learn how to create luxurious body scrubs using home-grown botanicals. This session covers selecting and blending herbs, flowers, and fruits for skin-nourishing benefits, exploring a range of exfoliation and moisturizing options, and customizing scents and textures to suit individual skin needs.
Gardeners often enthusiastically start new projects that require digging without considering whether they have the correct tools or techniques to start the project. Digging doesn't have to be hard on your body if a gardener takes the time to match the tools to the job and practice proper digging…
Calculating plant water requirements, managing soil quality, using the right types of watering methods and gardening practices can greatly reduce the amount of water used in a vegetable garden. All of these issues will be addressed in this talk as well as vegetable plant selection for low water use.
Some folks call them "Mosquito Hawks" or "Daddy Long Legs" or "Skeeter Eaters." They're not hawks, they're not arachnids, and they don't eat mosquitoes.They are crane flies, members of the family Tipulidae of the order Diptera (flies). With the temperatures rising, they're everywhere now,…
Please find the attached document to provide the previous week’s estimated water use report in terms of evapotranspiration for almonds, peaches, walnuts, established vineyard, alfalfa, and pasture in Stanislaus County. This report may be used as a guide in your irrigation schedule for the…
Join us for a free in-person event at Delta College Manteca Farm!Topics discussed will include cherry orchard management with Delta College Manteca Farm Manager Donald Drake, spotted wing drosophila management in cherries with Jhalendra Rijal, and how improving irrigation management can be used as a tool for…
