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With summer just around the corner thought I'd share some of the summer tasks needed for a cut flower garden. When I got rid of my front lawn a few years ago, I added rocks, and a small flower garden area.

Healthy California wildlands were managed with periodic wild and cultural fires for millennia. As the state's population and development grew, officials suppressed most fires out of concern for people, homes and businesses.

With a $379,785 grant from CAL FIRE, UC Cooperative Extension and the Resource Conservation District of Monterey County are spearheading a community effort to create a prescribed burn association along California's Central Coast region.

Preventing embers from getting inside may save homes Photos and video of the Northern California communities that have been hit by wildfires show buildings reduced to ash.

The Camp Fire that destroyed the town of Paradise and other wildfires that have devastated communities in recent years have convinced wildfire experts that Californians need to take more than one approach to coexist with fire.

Our community has made incredible strides in growing our virtual presence. Programs are hosting workshops via Zoom, drop-in training on Facebook Live, and broadly sharing educational videos via YouTube.

UC ANR is currently in Phase 2 of our re-opening plan. Guided by a new emergency response team, we have basic mitigation protocols for all UC ANR work.

DroneCamp is IGIS's flagship event of the year. Now in it's 4th year, the program started out as a 2 1/2 day mash-up of several half-day workshops created by Sean Hogan on using drones for research data collection.

The statewide office is thrilled to introduce two new Program Coordinators that started with the UC Master Gardener Program in Spring 2020. Please join us in giving them a warm welcome! Sherida Phibbs Humboldt and Del Norte Counties sjphibbs@ucanr.

There is culture in agriculture. Mary Lu Arpaia says she spent hours looking at the avocado pictures, along with those of other fruit crops.