California farmers can grow crops with less water. Gardeners can control pests with safer methods. Community members can take steps to protect their homes from wildfire. Children can learn life and work skills. Families can stretch their food dollars to provide nutritious meals.
What's better than seeing a yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging on an neon pink ice plant at Bodega Bay? Seeing two bumble bees on the same flower. That's what we observed on a recent trip to Doran Regional Park, Bodega Bay, Sonoma County. It was bumble bee heaven.
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This week, from noon on May 19 to noon on May 20, the UC Master Gardener Program is launching an independent statewide giving day! It's called UC ANR GivingDayand is a day to dig deep' to support the program you care about.
Arbor Day just passed, and we are now full on into allergy season. I hope that anyone who recently bought and planted a tree did a little prior research. Had I had been a smarter gardener years ago, I would have first researched the trees I planted more thoroughly.
Newly published research led by UC Davis ecologist Daniel Paredes suggests that pest abundances are less variable in diverse landscapes comprised of multiple crop types and patches of natural habitat.
