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California was the first state to adopt a policy to provide school meals, free of charge, to all students after the federal COVID provisions expired this summer.

Given the right conditions, some seemingly mild-mannered plants can become garden thugs, invading entire yards and even moving on to the rest of the neighborhood.

We're learning a lot about micro-climates and how small variations in temperature, humidity, wind, and other factors determine what grows best in a particular location.

As Californians prepare for another year of drought and an anticipated intense fire season, landowners and organizations across California have been working to reduce forest fuels flammable woody material that can endanger their properties and communities.

The Willis Linn Jepson Native Garden Renovation Project-Part 2 Preservation Pointers: Pickling Pleasures A Visit to the UC Davis Honeybee Haven Salvia microphylla 'Hot Lips' Water-Wise Plants Moles, Voles, Pocket Gophers, California Ground Squirrels, Birds on Tree Fruit and Vines Protecting Our Tree...

During a meeting of the President's Advisory Commission on Agriculture and Natural Resources on June 23, UC President Michael Drake joined the virtual gathering to offer an update on the ongoing response to COVID-19.

Have you seen any Checkered White butterflies lately? They're quite common in the southern United States and northern Mexico (they're known as the Southern cabbage butterfly), but one CW fluttered through our pollinator garden in Vacaville, Solano County, Calif., on June 23.

Gail Feenstra, director of the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program, retired July 1 after 33 years of serving Californians through UC Agriculture and Natural Resources.

The University urgently invites comments on the U.S. Department of Education's proposed amendments to the Title IX regulations issued by the May 2020 administration, as published last week. The regulations primarily address how schools must respond to sex-based harassment, including sexual violence.

My husband and I had the opportunity to spend a week in Washington Heights, Upper Manhattan last March 31 to April 7 to visit our son David and his family who moved to New York in the summer of 2021 to start his doctoral degree last fall. We landed at LaGuardia Airport at 8:25 p.m.