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Announcement of recipients for this year's Healthy Soils Program...

With tomatoes, I'm probably over-optimistic the same as I'm over-optimistic with about everything I try in the garden. It's hard not to be. A new generation of breeders has revived interest in forgotten heirloom varieties.

May 20, 2020 Folks, Here is a short 12-minute video update from Phil Foster on some of his recent reduced disturbance and shade cloth work with Tom Willey. Keep going strong, everyone! All the best, Jeff https://youtu.

Avocado Varieties like GEM, Maluma, and Future Varieties & Rootstock Update CAS/CAC/UC Seminar Series Mary Lu Arpaia and Eric Focht of UC Riverside Botany will cover the horticultural characteristics of the Hass-like varieties - how they grow in different circumstances relative to Hass'.

In This Issue: Have disease in your field, contact Amber! Cover Crop Survey 2020 Research Progress/Results...

BIG DIG DAY OF GIVING JUNE 5, 2020 Support 4-H!...

Hello- Please see the attached flyer for information about "WORKING RANGELANDS WEDNESDAYS WEBINAR SERIES" to be held on June 3rd at 1pm PDT! Thank you and stay safe!...

The University Of California's goal to make UC the healthiest place to work, learn and live acknowledges that in order to fundamentally change our health environment, campus communities must invest in a host of small changes that add up to meaningful shifts, thus producing a lasting culture of healt...

What a lot of bees. These are Miner or Chimney bee nests. Another type of Digger bee, these nests are from Santa Paula Canyon thanks to Nathan Lurie The hills are alive with the sound of BEE-EEZZE. And often they are found crawling on the ground, as is the case of Digger Bees.

Record numbers of people are gardening this spring and victory gardens are rapidly sprouting across the nation. Now is a better time than ever to learn how to save seeds. People have saved plant seeds for millennia.