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Trees essential to lowering temperatures, cooling heat islands' Water restrictions prompted by the drought are driving Californians to prioritize how they will use their limited water.

The 1000th tree okayed for growing by California's Citrus Clonal Protection Program happens to be the oldest living orange variety in the state. The program, housed at UC Riverside, is the first of its kind in the world.

Tong Zhen is a Ph.D. student in the Hanson Lab at UC Davis. Non-chemical weed control usually is based on physical methods (e.g. tillage or mowing) or thermal methods such as propane flaming or steam.

If you can sell your cowpeas, fava beans and barley, you can make money in Spain and apparently not use any more water than if just growing the mandarins. And coastal growers should look at the fresh market.

Each child has their own bucket and everything they need to grow something. And then eventually (and hopefully) EAT IT! How about making SEED BOMBS? Bean tepees? This show has so much detail, if you close your eyes, it could be like TV! Learn more and listen to "In The Garden" radio show podcasts.

The American Society for Nutrition's annual conference, Nutrition 2022 Live Online, happens virtually June 14-16, 2022.

One of the scores of arachnologists you'll see at the "Eight-Legged Encounters" open house on Saturday, June 25 at the Bohart Museum of Entomology will be doctoral candidate Lacie Newton, an amazing young UC Davis scientist who just delivered her exit seminar on "Evolution and Speciation in the Trap...

A special open house, Eight-Legged Encounters, set from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday, June 25 at the Bohart Museum of Entomology will officially kick off the 2022 American Arachnological Society's meeting at UC Davis. The free, public open house.

UC Davis doctoral candidate Lacie Newton covered two chapters of her dissertation when she recently delivered her exit seminar, in-person and via Zoom, on "Evolution and Speciation in the Trapdoor Spider Genus Aptostichus" in Briggs Hall.

The University of California, Irvine campus is home to a vast urban forest consisting of approximately 30,000 trees located in a mix of landscape, riparian and open space settings.