Archive Nut, Prune and Olive Programs

Master Gardener and KUCI Staff Host Mark Oertel sits down with fellow MG Teena Spindler and discuss all about Heritage/Pass Along Plants. You may have inherited your family home and would never, ever consider digging up any of the beautiful plants your Mom/Grandma tended to for years.

California's $86 million date industry produces more than half of the nation's dates. Most of the fruit is grown in the arid Coachella Valley.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture's Healthy Stores Refrigeration Grant Program provides grants to corner stores in disadvantaged neighborhoods to purchase energy-efficient refrigeration units for stocking California-grown fresh produce, nuts and minimally processed foods.

On the horizon: New tools for addressing root-knot nematode challenges in California's carrot production...

Upcoming UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Month live talks and demonstrations include: Asian giant hornets (aka "murder hornets"): 1 to 2 p.m., Thursday, Feb.

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You won't want to miss this. It promises to be a memorable event.

(Editor's Note, Feb. 21: The Eric Conn Biochemistry Quizzes may now be viewed on YouTube here.

I had a brief email exchange with Sue Mosbacher the other day. She is not bored. I can see why she is writing proposals and working on online delivery of Master Food Preserver classes. She has done some amazing work check it out! I spent Tuesday meeting with REC directors.

In 2020, we completed a three-year on-farm trial in the Delta to evaluate warm-season legume cover cropping between winter small grain forage crops.