Archive Nut, Prune and Olive Programs

We had an incredible conference! More than 800 UC ANR members met in Fresno for our All ANR Conference. From individuals who start in fall, to those who are celebrating 40 years with ANR we had an incredible gathering.

The late UC Berkeley professor John Edward Casida (1929-2018), internationally recognized for his work on pesticides and their effects on humans, was the pesticide toxicologist of his generation, based on his research, his leadership and the impact of the many alumni from his laboratory.

In 1999 I planted nine Manzanillo olive trees. Over the years, I've added another fourteen trees, and they are all still alive and producing fruit for olive oil. My early success relied more on dumb luck and less on good planning. Fortunately for me, olive trees are very forgiving.

April 25, 2023 Phil and Katherine Foster host GOOGLE Food Lab for tour of Pinnacle Organically Grown Produce! About 53 folks who were part of the GOOGLE Food Lab out of Mountain View, CA were treated to a half-day walking tour and lunch at the beautiful organic farm of Phil and Katherine just east o...

Representatives of UCANR visited the legislative building in Sacramento for UCANR Advocacy Day on April 18 and engaged with members of the Legislature and staff to advocate for UC's budget priorities.

Call it The Battle Over a Tree Hollow." Feral bees have occupiedand abandoneda sycamore tree cavity in a Vacaville neighborhood for at least two decades. They occupy it in the spring, summer and fall, and then the colony either absconds or dies back in the winter.

John Hargrove, director emeritus of the South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis, will present a UC Davis Entomology and Nematology seminar on "Tsetse, Trypanosomiasis, and Climate Change: What Can We Learn from Field Data Collected in the Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe?

Dear Colleagues, The USDA Forest Service Urban & Community Forestry (UCF) Program is a technical, financial, and educational assistance program, delivering nature-based solutions to ensure a resilient and equitable tree canopy where more than 84 percent of Americans live.

The annual UC Davis Alfalfa and Small Grains Field Day will take place on Thursday, May 11, 2023 at the Department of Plant Sciences Field Facility (2400 Hutchison Drive, Davis, CA 95616). Registration opens at 7:30am, and the wagons leave for the field at 8am.

Hello, Please See Attached "Spring 2023 Newsletter" Thank you!...