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I couldn't believe it when I heard that COMPOST2023, billed as the world's largest composting event, was going to be held in Ontario, California in January.

The University of California Hansen Agricultural Research and Extension Center the site of popular school field trips, 4-H programs, a UC Master Gardener demonstration garden, and numerous research trials on crops and landscape plants is moving to a new location on the west side of Camarillo.

As we prepare for wildfire in 2023, we reflect on what we learned from the 2022 fire season. From a statistical point of view, fewer acres were burned, and fortunately, fewer lives and homes were lost. Less than 400,000 acres were burned, a sevenfold reduction from 2021.

But others with as few as four petals will do great. So learn the different types of roses to choose as the best for your garden space or use for the flowers. Bareroot plants are available now so pick the best ones.

The 2022-23 cropping season got off to a wet start throughout most of California. Across the main small grain growing regions of the state, rainfall is 158% of average to date (Figure 1), with 164% and 197% of average in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, respectively.

Healthy Eating Research (HER), a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, conducted a rapid Health Impact Assessment (HIA) to understand how improving school nutrition standards could impact the nutritional quality of school meals, school meal participation, student dietary consumption, studen...

Randall Oliver, UC Statewide IPM Program Communications Coordinator. Credit: An adult male red striped palm weevil.John Kabashima/UCANR Trees provide shade to keep us cool, produce oxygen for us to breathe and calm our nerves.

Quite a few years ago my secret pal at work gave me a cyclamen for Valentine's Day. It came in a hand-painted clay pot and had bright red blooms rising above the heart-shaped leaves. I thought it was a perfect Valentine's gift.

The 2023 Quad County Walnut Institute will be held in Stockton on February 28. Please see the attached PDF for the agenda.