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What's Another Name For a Prickly Pear? (Hint: Sounds the same as a fish you may know and like) As I drive around I check out stuff. New streets, new areas, places to shop, ideas for landscaping. Landscaping, hmmm. Cactus plants are pretty common.

Head to the Bodega Bay in Sonoma County and you'll see little kids building sandcastles on the beaches. But head to Bodega Head in the spring and summer, and if you're lucky, you'll see female digger beesbumble bee mimicscreating their own versions of sandcastles.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Health Advisory recently in response to increased reports of illness associated with products containing the pesticide ivermectin.

After spending more than a year working at the native plant garden, Master Gardener volunteers have successfully conquered the intrusion of weeds, death through over-watering of cacti, overgrowth of ambitious native plants, decline of fragile plants, and other challenges of maintaining a demonstrati...

by Dianne Weyna During the lockdown is probably how many stories will start these days. With all that time on my hands I have done a few experiments of tropical plantings. Like millions before me I started a couple avocados seeds.

Remember Godzilla? The 1954 iconic film, Godzilla, featured what Wikipedia calls "an enormous, destructive prehistoric sea monster awakened and empowered by nuclear radiation." I have a Godzilla.

University of California students Anna Rios and Conor McCabe have been selected as Global Food Initiative fellows for UC Agriculture and Natural Resources during the 2021-22 school year.

On Tuesday, September 21 the 4-H Leaders Council will hold its monthly meeting at 6:30pm. This will be an in-person meeting. The Location is the Indian Springs Equestrian center at 22440 Indian Spring Road, Salinas. Now known as the Connections Boarding Stables.

To register, go to the Western Alfalfa & Forage Symposium webpage.

It is late summer now and moving quickly into fall. I am looking forward to this coming season because of the vibrant colors, cooler weather, hopefully, some rain, and the planning for the next crop of interesting plants.