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Baur named Western IPM Center director After leading the Western Integrated Pest Management Center through the global COVID crisis as acting director, Matt Baur has been named permanent director effective July 1 to lead the center into the post-pandemic future.

The President's Advisory Commission on Agriculture and Natural Resources (PAC) met virtually on June 16 and had a lively discussion with one another and later with President Drake about how UC ANR can deliver on the president's priorities of social/environmental justice, public health and economic i...

A little boredom sounds good right now. Merit and promotion package reviews are over, but time still seems to be inadequate for the workload. I think it is due to the short week whereby the number of meetings didn't decrease, but were rather crunched into fewer, longer days.

Image by Arek Socha from Pixabay ANR Learning & Development Webpage Past webinar recordings EXTENSION DELIVERY Virtual Summer School with National Association of Extension Programs (NAEPSDP) Moving Extension Forward: July 12 - 16 Noon 1 p.m. (PDT) Click here to register.

Please see the link for information on "2021 Walnut Freeze: Reporting the Damage.

Are you interested in helping others and giving back to your community? Do you have a passion for gardening and volunteering? The UCCE Stanislaus County* Master Gardener Program is now accepting applications for 2022.

Let's have a slumber party! Don't bring a pillow, a night-cap or an attitudeit's Boys' Night Out and we're sleeping outside on the flowers. That's what the male longhorned bees, Melissodes agilis, do while the females return to their underground nests at night.

If you long for a lovely landscape and bountiful baskets of homegrown vegetables, you might be surprised to learn that doing less can actually result in a healthier, more productive garden.

I say good for the young woman below! Thank you, Darrell, for passing the below to me to post here. I wish I could taste it. Having trouble with your Orange Marmalade? Try harder. This 9 y/o won Double Gold on her first try. Deemed World's Best over 3000 other competitors. https://www.cbc.

This sage is from China like many of the sages we have in our garden-and love. It grows in the mountains of China, like some of the sages from China, it has no botanical name. To give this sage and others a botanical name is very difficult and expensive.