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Welcome to the final IGIS year-in-review of the decade! 2019 was another productive and satisfying year, full of innovation, outreach, and collaboration. Our work this year has been guided by ANR Strategic Goals and contributed to the Public Value Statements.

While skimming a magazine from England called Permaculture, I found an article about mounding. The article described how to build mounds in your garden and what materials to use. Over time, the soil becomes richer from the decaying materials.

How do monarch butterflies know when to migrate? Take the case of a male monarch reared, released and tagged by Steven Johnson in a Washington State University citizen-science project operated by WSU entomologist David James. Johnson tagged and released the monarch on Sunday, Aug.

Effective Jan. 1, 2020, the university's mileage reimbursement rates for expenses incurred in connection with the business use of a private automobile will decrease in accordance with the Internal Revenue Service standard mileage rates published in IRS Notice 2019-215.

CPRS Conference - February 7th 38th Annual Landscape Management Seminar - February 12th Return to Chernobyl, August 2020 Rule of the Superbowl New Publications...

Would you be able to identify a pineapple slicer or 14 other cooking items? Well thirteen t'weens had the opportunity to do just that during Tweens in the Kitchen sponsored by Hanford Parks and Recreation and CalFresh Healthy Living, University of California during the holiday break.

Dear 4-H families, On Tuesday, January 21st, the 4-H Leaders Council will hold its monthly meeting at 7pm. The location will be at the County Agricultural conference room at 1423 Abbott S.t in Salinas. All 4-H families are invited to attend and take part in the councils discussion and planning.

As one year passes and another begins, I think we all pay a little more attention to time. Whether it was watching that clock for the big countdown, throwing away our old calendar, or writing that new number on checks and documents, we all are a little more aware of time moving on.

Ventura County Research Symposium Sustainability Through Soil Health Please join us for a morning of research updates and speakers highlighting industry trends including: Soil Health Assessment and Management: Lessons from the Arid and Semiarid Southwest Dr.

I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself. Sir Peter Smithers Don't do it, the nurseryman said as I wistfully admired the Mexican lime tree. They are too frost-sensitive for our area. So I didn't buy the tree. At least not then.