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In this issue: News from 4-H Council 4-H Drive Thru Dinner Teen Retreat Mother Lode Fair Dates Events Club Corner News from State Fashion Revue Committee Ambassador and Leadership Teams Speaks October 2021 Calendar of Events...

If you've been thinking about bees, butterflies and other pollinators--and wondering when the next UC Davis Arboretum Teaching Nursery online plant sales will take place--mark your calendar. Members-Only Online Plant Sales with Curbside Pick-Up. You shop at the online plant store Tuesday, Oct.

Senate Bill 88 requires that all water right holders who have previously diverted or intend to divert more than 10 acre-feet per year (riparian and pre-1914 claims), or who are authorized to divert more than 10 acre-feet per year under a permit, license, or registration, to measure and report the wa...

As the gravity of the COVID-19 pandemic hit communities across the U.S. in mid-March 2020, the policy team at UC Agriculture and Natural Resources' Nutrition Policy Institute received an urgent email from a longtime partner in the San Joaquin Valley.

As the seasons change, I'm excited to plant my fall garden and start my new part-time position as the Environmental Education Coordinator for UCCE San Bernardino County. I'll be working an average of eight hours a week, reporting to Maggie O'Neill, our amazing Master Gardener Coordinator.

Youth EFNEP partnered with the San Bernardino City Unified School Districts' Family Engagement Center to help support their Summer Reading Program. Over 120 Kindergarten through Sixth graders joined the 6 week virtual program via Zoom.

Now is the time for planting cool-season vegetables like broccoli, carrots, and spinach. We are pleased to share new pest management resources for other cool season vegetables including beets, chard, radishes or turnips.

Nutrition Policy Institute senior researcher and policy advisor, Wendi Gosliner, was featured in an article in Western FarmPress about a pilot program for San Diego County CalFresh participants to receive monthly text messages about the benefits of California-grown fruits and vegetables.

Larvae of the western grapeleaf skeletonizer feeding on a grape leaf. (Photo by Surendra Dara) The western grapeleaf skeletonizer (WGLS), Harrisina metallica, is a pest of vineyards in some parts of California.

My sister-in-law Sandy has always grown the best heirloom tomatoes ever. We would go to her house in San Jose and the plants would be 6 feet tall. No kidding! She had tons of them, they tasted so good. She recently moved to Washington State.