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Helping people attain financial security and healthy, active lives has been a career passion for Patti Wooten Swanson, UC Cooperative Extension nutrition, family and consumer sciences advisor for San Diego County.

Fall & Winter Prune Orchard Considerations Long Pruning for Greater Early Yields Cytospora: A year-round fight Increase Your Return on Investment with Post-Harvest Weed Scouting...

Zheng Wang, vegetable crops advisor with UC Cooperative Extension in Stanislaus County, visited an ag class at Stanislaus State to discuss a state-of-the-art vegetable production practice that involves grafting, reported Alivah Stoeckl in Stan State News.

Ambrosia beetles, which are a large group of several thousand species worldwide, belong to the bark beetles. All species are characterized by the ability to cultivate fungi.

A monarch butterfly fluttered into our pollinator garden in Vacaville yesterday and sipped nectar from a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia) as a bird looked on. Well, sort of looked on. The bird was decorative art. The monarch was real. Now if that bird had been real, the monarch may have been a meal.

Book of the Month - House Plants Again! Ornamental Plant of the Month - Sedum sieboldii Edible Plant of the Month - Horseradish Recipe of the Month - Chicken Pot Pie Events - check the fliers for details Second Saturday at the Library, October 12, 10 to noon Pumpkin Centerpiece Workshop, October 17,...

By Faith Kearns Drinking water contamination is an ongoing issue across the United States. However, tracking water quality violations and notifying residents about them is challenging, and there is no systematic approach for prioritizing assistance once a violation is detected.

Earlier this summer, I was fortunate to be able to take a family vacation to Canada. One of our visits was to Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.), Canada's smallest province. Prince Edward Island depends on its own water table for all of its water needs.

Fall Citrus Meeting Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019 8:30 AM 12:00 PM Tulare County Agricultural Building Auditorium 4437 S. Laspina St.

Reposted from the UCANR Knowledge Stream Catastrophic wildfires are becoming more frequent, more intense and more destructive in California.