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You may be surprised to learn that the signature of Abraham Lincoln on a Senate bill in July of 1862 put into motion actions and ideologies that would culminate in a nation-wide program that includes the UC Master Gardeners of Butte County.

There they were. Together. The scene: A honeybee (Apis mellifera) and a bumblebee (Bombus vosnesenskii) nectaring on a purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) in a UC Davis bee garden. If you've observed honeybees and wild bees foraging in your garden, you've probably wanted to compare them.

By Susanne von Rosenberg, UC Master Gardener of Napa County If you live in an older home, you likely inherited some amount of old landscaping.

Honeybees are celebrated as effective plant pollinators, but just how effective are they? Newly published UC Davis research in the American Journal of Botany yields some surprising results.

We are still tallying the final results, but as of 11:59 p.m. on GivingTuesday 2021, our generous donors helped raise $114,310 for UC Cooperative Extension and the statewide programs, institutes and research centers that make up UC ANR.

NOVEMBER 2021 CATTLECAL NEWSLETTER UPDATE 32nd ANNUAL FALL DESERT CROPS WORKSHOP AGENDA LETTUCE FUSARIUM WILT - SAMPLES NEEDED DRIP IRRIGATION SHOWS PROMISE FOR SPINACH GROWERS IMPERIAL VALLEY CIMIS REPORT AND UC WATER MANAGEMENT RESOURCES...

With shorter days and cooler temperatures, deciduous trees shed their glossy canopies of leaves. Leaves are everywhere blowing in the wind, choking roof valleys, and dotting sidewalks.

Tuesday, December 14, 2021 10:30am to 12:30pm, Shafter, CA See attached for information and directions...

November and December are clean up times in the garden, as well as assessing the state of our garden after growing all of those heavy feeder summer vegetables...

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