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California's 2010 Healthy Beverages in Child Care Act (AB2084) specifies that only unflavored low-fat milk or nonfat milk be served to children aged 2 years or older, allows no more than 1 daily serving of 100% juice, prohibits beverages with added sweeteners, and requires that safe drinking water b...

Do you like mixed greens and bean sprouts? I do I love their flavor and textures in both sandwiches and salads. Unfortunately, the store-bought sprouts never last long, and often they are not available in the stores.

Extreme drought is changing agriculture across California and urban farming is no exception. Many community farms and gardens cultivate land owned by city or county departments, schools and private landowners.

New fungus strain could provide a chemical-free method to help honey bees Washington State University Jennifer Han jennifer.o.han@wsu.edu PULLMAN, Wash.

by Matthew E. Navarro While working the 2020 harvest at a large custom crush facility, I lucked into a harvester's loss. Tumbling out of a macrobin fell a simple tool composed of a hard plastic handle and a short curved blade.

Aphids are the most frequent pests of orchards. You may notice the apple tree leaves are curled up, and when you open the leaves, you'll see a mass of small gray insects. The gray aphids are common everywhere. Their bodies are covered with small gray scales with ash bloom.

When most people think of hydroponics, they think of growingwell, cannabis. However, hydroponics is a great method for growing all kinds of herbs, vegetables, and fruits. Hydroponics involves growing plants in a water and mineral nutrient solution without soil.

By Pat Hitchcock, UC Master Gardener of Napa County One of the pleasures of having a large, messy vegetable garden is that plants that get ignored past their useful life as an edible still have value. I've learned this slowly over time.

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