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Similar to previous years, UC ANR units including research and extension centers, UCCE county offices, the Second Street Building in Davis and Franklin Building in Oakland will be closed from Dec. 23, 2022, through Jan. 2, 2023, except for essential services. UC ANR offices will reopen on Jan.

It's fall and time to get your worm compost bins in order. Thicker bedding protects the worms during cold weather as they move to the center of the bin to keep warm. It is sometimes hard to work a compost bin and rebuild it during winter. It's cold, or it's raining.

UCCE, USDA California Climate Hub launch CalAgroClimate decision-support tool Climate and weather variability pose increasing risks to farmers.

In 2021, the Delta Stewardship Council, with input from a technical advisory committee, released the report Delta Adapts: Creating a Climate Resilient Future for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Congratulations to our colleagues at UC Merced and UC Santa Cruz for joining the Agricultural Experiment Station. We welcome their collaboration. UC President Michael Drake announced during the UC Regents meeting Nov. 16 that UC will soon designate UC Santa Cruz and UC Merced as AES campuses.

Note: This is the third in a three-part series on native plants that have proven successful on the author's property along the Lindo Channel in Chico. The previous articles discussed large trees, small trees and large shrubs.

Getting to know your Potting Containers: When a container isn't just a container When choosing a container for your potted plants there's lots of things to consider.

Nancy Mannon became a UC Cooperative Extension Master Gardener in San Bernardino County 2019 and her love of gardening and nature was immediately apparent, as you will learn below.

When Professors Jay Rosenheim, Joanna Chiu and Louie Yang of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology launched the Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology (RSPIB) to give undergraduates closely mentored research experiences in biology, the innovative projects have simply been outstan...