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The Stanislaus Sprout: Article

Cool, Moist Weather Favors Peach Leaf Curl

December 12, 2022
By Anne E Schellman
Peach leaf curl, a fungus disease of peach and nectarine trees, is very common in home gardens. Cool and rainy weather provide ideal conditions for the spread of the disease. Recognizing the disease is simple, since it occurs only on peaches and nectarines and has very definite symptoms.
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Under the Solano Sun: Article

From the White House to Your House

December 12, 2022
Though we think of our country's capitol as a place of constant change, with Congress and the administration making grand entrances and exits every two and possibly every four years, there is one place that continues to be relatively stable the pristine grounds of the White House.
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Nutrition Policy Institute News: Article

Christina Hecht comments on America’s concurrent food and water security crises in a Food & Environment Reporting Network article

December 12, 2022
By Christina E Hecht, Danielle Lee, Lorrene D Ritchie
Christina Hecht, senior policy adviser with the University of California's Nutrition Policy Institute, was featured in a Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN) article titled Why America's food-security crisis is a water-security crisis, too, published on November 20, 2022.
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Spill the Beans: Article

Building a California Native Garden

December 12, 2022
by Melody Kendall The UC Master Gardeners of Napa County in partnership with the City of Napa Parks and Recreation Department continue to develop a botanical teaching garden at the Las Flores Community Center property in Napa. Currently, four gardens at the Las Flores Learning Garden are complete.
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Garden Tool Care

December 12, 2022
By Help Desk Team
Evenings are growing dark and maybe it's too cold and wet to work in the garden. What better time for tool care? It's also a great time of year to drop some hints to friends and family for those expensive new pruning shears you've been wanting.
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COVID-19 testing requested after winter break, self-tests provided

December 9, 2022
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
To help avoid an increase of COVID-19 cases at work after the winter holiday, we are providing every UC ANR employee with a COVID-19 antigen test kit (2 tests) to take home with them to use after the break. Test kits are being shipped to every ANR location during the week of December 12-16.
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UC Cooperative Extension Trinity County: Article

Cloverleaf December 2022

December 9, 2022
This issue contains: Upcoming Trinity Co 4-H Events Favorite Foods Day 2022-2023 Council Meetings 2022 Achievement Day Awards Korson Coulter Memorial Scholarship 2023 4-H STEM Challenge 2023 State 4-H Youth Summits Article on Trinity Co Fair & Meat Product Evaluation
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