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In a year that continues to take unpleasant twists and turns, there continue to be bright spots along the way! Please welcome Douglas Amaral to UC ANR.

Besides eating them in pies and roasting the seeds for munching later, learn about what to do with what's left over. Use it to make a floral centerpiece or plant succulents in the shell for a living arrangement.

It's out. The long-awaited scientific article on the new trapdoor genus (and species) that UC Davis Professor Jason Bond discovered on a sandy beach at Moss Landing State Park, Monterey County, is now online. In fact, it's the cover story in the journal Insect Systematics and Diversity.

Up-coming on-line meeting on November 10th, 2020 from 12:50pm- 4:00pm. This will be a Zoom event. If interested in participating, please register at: http://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=32220 Agenda for this meeting is below.

Though it's been hard to tell with the fire/weather we're having during this craziest of all yearsSeptember felt pretty summerythe plants in my garden have been telling me for a number of weeks now that summer is finally ending.

Miridae, a company founded and owned by UC Davis-trained ecologist Billy Krimmel, won the highly competitive 2020 Award of Excellence for Communication from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for its Seed Bank Living Wall at DPR Construction, Sacramento.

Each year, UC Master Gardener program coordinators from across the state gather together to engage in professional development, share successes, troubleshoot challenges, and connect with UC ANR resources to improve program delivery.

Biodegradable mulches are a promising alternative to traditional polyethene plastic mulches that reduce plastic waste generation and provide opportunities to reduce the costs of mulch removal and disposal.