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Two years ago today, Sonoma County residents awoke to fire spreading through urban and wild lands across our county, a dark cloud of smoke covering the sky, and ash blanketing the ground.

Hello 4-H community, The Monterey County 4-H Camp program, Camp McCandless, will be held at Camp MayMac in the Santa Cruz Mountains. This site features a full kitchen, swimming pool, basketball and volleyball courts, hiking trails and cabins and much more. This years dates are June 14th -19st 2020.

Post Harvest Clean up Zinc and Boron Review Potassium management for sustained almond yields Almond Variety Planting Trends Increase Your Return on Investment with Post-Harvest Weed Scouting Save the Date! Post-Harvest Almond and Walnut IPM Workshop and more meeting dates for 2020...

Meetings and Announcements Fall Color Development in Trees and Shrubs Galls of Oak Leaves...

Post-Harvest Clean up Zinc and Boron review Almond Variety Planting trends Potassium Management...

SAVE THE DATE! Healthy Soils Field Day and Equipment Showcase Farm Call Summary 2019 Weed highlight: Branched broomrape Differentiating wilt and crown rot diseases in field SAVE THE DATE South Sacramento Valley Processing Tomato Production Meeting...

Soil 101 By Leonard Cicerello UCCE Master Gardener I have lousy soil, but I want to learn how to garden. Deb, Los Osos The UC Master Gardeners Advice to Grow By workshop this month will be outstanding for beginning and experienced gardeners.

Last week, Governor Gavin Newsom signed a series of bills aimed at improving California's wildfire prevention, mitigation and response efforts.

Eye catching headline aside, the grass fly depicted in the first photo below has caught the attention of sharp eyed observers in area bathrooms. I've seen one too, and, yes, you guessed it, in a bathroom next to a fruit field.

So they don't infest neighboring areas with loads and loads of flies. Remember that time from egg to adult vinegar or spotted wing drosophila fly is something over two weeks when the conditions are right, so big piles of culls like these need to disappear fast.