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Weigh Onions
The Backyard Gardener: Article

Bread and Butter Pickled Onions

August 7, 2022
I love Bread & Butter Pickles! One of the things I love best about them are the onions. We have just harvested our onions but don't have our cucumbers yet. I decided to make a version with just onions.
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Saintsbury roses (Cindy Watter)
Napa Master Gardener Column: Article

Saintsbury Garden- a thriving wonder to behold

August 7, 2022
One of my neighbors, David Graves, is a partner in the Carneros winery Saintsbury. It's a small but thriving enterprise and very attractive because of its garden, making it a pleasant place to sit and enjoy the flowers and the bees, butterflies and hummingbirds attracted to them.
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Photo Credit Pixabay by manfredrichter
The Coastal Gardener : Article

August Garden Notes

August 5, 2022
By Sherida J Phibbs
Do you wonder what seasonal gardening tasks should be done month-by-month? Or what seasonal pests to be looking out for? The Humboldt/Del Norte Master Gardener Help Desk Team is providing you with some tasks that will help you maintain and grow beautiful edibles and landscape plants.
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Fresno County 4-H: Article

August 2022 Guidelines

August 5, 2022
In This Edition 2- Committee & Council Meetings 2- New Council Officers 2- Incentives & Recognition 2- Enrollment Note 3- National 4-H Week 3- Leadership Training Day 3- Fresno Fair Reminders 3- Need a 4-H Uniform?
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A leafcutter bee, Megachile spp., rests on a leaf of milkweed, Asclepias fascicularis, in a Vacaville, Calif. garden. Both are natives. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Ever See a Leafcutter Bee Sunning Itself on a Milkweed Leaf?

August 5, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Well, that's something you don't see every day: a leafcutter bee sunning itself on a milkweed leaf. The narrowleafed milkweed, Asclepias fascicularis, beckons monarch butterflies (the host plant), aphids, praying mantids and assorted other insects, but once in a while, you'll see a leafcutter bee.
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UC Master Gardener Program of Riverside County: Article

Garden Views, 2022.06 - Between Issues June 2022

August 5, 2022
Updates on 2022 MG Graduation and changes to elected officers and project coordinators for West County Advisory Board (WCAB) and Desert Advisory Board (DAB) along with both 2022-2023 Rosters.
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Courtesy notice regarding annual systemwide payroll disclosure

August 5, 2022
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Dear Colleagues: As part of the university's commitment to transparency and public accountability, including the way it compensates faculty and staff, UC is conducting its annual disclosure of systemwide employee compensation for calendar year 2021.
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Coordinator News: Article

Program Evaluation

August 5, 2022
By Melissa G Womack
The sun is shining and we are looking forward to a bright new program year. As you plan events for 2022-2023 please remember that our program evaluation is required. The data we'll help you collect will be beneficial to your local program and communication with your county partners.
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Blog - Forest Research and Outreach : Article

Good Jobs Challenge awards $21.5 million for forestry, fire-safety jobs training

August 5, 2022
By Susan D Kocher
Reposted from the UC ANR News Butte, Feather River, Lake Tahoe, Reedley and Shasta community colleges, Chico State, UC ANR and Sierra Business Council to train workers for urgently needed work California's forested, rural communities are suffering from record-breaking wildfires that burned 2.
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