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What Preschoolers Drink Why Water?

UC IPM's popular Meet the Beneficials: Natural Enemies of Garden Pests poster is available to the UC Master Gardener Program for free! This helpful resource makes a great gift to new trainees or as a program incentive. Coordinators can request up to 50 copies of the poster using this request form.

I am behind on everything! Ever feel that way? Only two weeks into merit and promotion season and I am well behind on my self-imposed deadlines and already giving up the time I had set aside to read documents in order to accommodate other meetings.

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It was a whopping 100-fold increase. California's 2021 western monarch Thanksgiving count, directed by the Xerces Society of Invertebrate Conservation, recorded 250,000 overwintering monarchs, as compared to a mere 2000 in 2020.

With the continued group size restrictions, social distancing and general uncertainty, some counties have adopted a hybrid UC Master Gardener training.

The UC Rice IPM Workgroup is holding a grower meeting on February 16th to provide research updates and exhibit a new decision-support tool under development. The meeting is relevant to rice growers and other rice industry experts throughout California.

The final statewide evaluation reports for the program year 2021 (PY21) were sent out in Dec. 2021. Because the reports are cumulative, this report represents total participation in the follow-up survey for your county for PY21.

Skip the store and grow your own peanut butter, but it won't be in a jiffy. This season, we decided to grow peanuts in the Edible Plants Plot at the Community Garden Demonstration Garden. Why not? They are as pretty as any pea plant and just as easy to grow.

Determining when to return to in-person activities is being managed at the local level with direction and support from County Directors.