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Seminar/Webinar August 17, 2021 CA Avocado Society/CA Avocado Commission/UC Cooperative Extension Speakers & Topics: Mary Lu Arpaia: Physiology of light and water use in avocados and how it could be manipulated. Ben Faber: Hot Lessons from Australian & California avocado groves.

by Melody Kendall I just love walking in our neighborhood. As I have mentioned many times, we have been living in this particular neighborhood for almost 40 years.

Richard Smith is the University of California Cooperative Extension Monterey County Vegetable Crop Production and Weed Science Farm Advisor. He also covers Santa Cruz and San Benito counties. Oakleaf goosefoot (Chenopodium glaucum) is a new weed to the Salinas Valley that has become more prevalent.

By Susanne von Rosenberg, UC Master Gardener of Napa County Recently, someone asked me about the best trees to plant to help reduce climate change. Planting any tree is helpful, because all trees pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store the carbon in the form of wood.

Canning ChilesCan a Batch of Hatch? I keep getting e-mails from a Chile grower/seller in New Mexico. They are selling the famous Hatch chiles. Hatch chiles are offered in hot, medium, or mild. Pre-roasted, you got it. Make a choice of chopped or whole; they are shipped to you frozen.

UC Cooperative Extension will host the annual Delta field meeting on Thursday, September 30th from 10:00-11:30am, on Tyler Island in Sacramento County. The agenda is pasted below and attached.

Would you eat a chocolate-covered cicada? Yes? No? Maybe? Entomophagy is no problem for scientists at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis. They know where the office snacks are kept. The items includedrum rollchocolate-covered cicadas.

Ornamental Plant of the Month Spring Bulbs Edible Plant of the Month Wild Blackberries Recipe of the Month Zucchini Mac and Cheese Book of the Month For the Love of Trees: A Celebration of People and Trees Listen to our podcast, A Garden Runs Through It, on radiocolusa.

Wildfires that generate their own weather, drought, record-breaking heatwaves, and frequent flooding are compelling more people to try to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

UC Cooperative Extension will host the annual Delta field meeting on Thursday, September 30th from 10:00-11:30am, on Tyler Island in Sacramento County. The agenda is pasted below and attached.