Archive Nut, Prune and Olive Programs

In this Issue: Dairy Seminars Sludges Worth Announcements Next Issue: February 2023...

Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nutrition Policy Institute policy team, Christina Hecht and Ken Hecht, have partnered with a Stanford University research team and two San Joaquin Valley community-based organizations, Dolores Huerta Foundation and Cultiva La Salud, to help improve acce...

In this Issue...

Nutrition Policy Institute researchers served as guest editors for a special issue in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focusing on 21st-century global innovations in school nutrition to improve the diet, food security, and ultimately the health and well-...

What do you think of when you see leaves? By now you have heard leaves are good, maybe you even have some in your compost pile. You may know from Compost 101 that compost does best with a mix of browns and greens, and that fallen leaves are usually a brown.

This weekend Lindcove hosts the annual citrus fruit display. Event: Oranges, mandarins, lemons, limes, grapefruit, pomelos, and citrons and many other citrus varieties 180 citrus varieties will be on display Place: Lindcove REC, 22963 Carson Avenue Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM.

What an incredible art show that two UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology faculty recently hosted in the Labudio (lab+studio) of the UC Davis Environmental Horticulture Building, 200 Arboretum Drive.

Soil, rather than dirt, is a living ecosystem that supports plant life. When soil is healthy and aerobic, it protects plants from disease, retains and gives access to nutrients, decomposes toxins, and builds soil structure. One very important component of healthy soil is organic matter.

As California's nut industry has grown, so too have the opportunities for UC ANR farm advisors and specialists to present the latest innovative research topics to the state's nut growers, crop consultants and farm managers.

Soil quality is critical to healthy plants and is a vital part of our living ecosystem. Soil is alive with organisms; their populations change depending on what is added, how the soil is used, and environmental conditions.