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Imagine yourself walking out to your garden or patio and being greeted by a spicy fragrance. All around you are pots and containers filled with culinary herbs such as thyme, oregano, and basil. You reach down and take a snip or two of these fresh herbs and wander back into your kitchen to add them to the pot…

Some gardeners may not consider caterpillars to be “cool.” After all, hungry caterpillars eat vegetables and flowers that gardeners are trying to grow! However, I think they ARE cool because beautiful colorful caterpillars become gorgeous butterflies or moths. In addition, they are valuable pollinators and a…

Every gardener knows that weeds are just plants in the wrong place. Webster’s dictionary defines a weed as “a plant that is not valued where it is growing and is usually of vigorous growth; especially: one that tends to overgrow or choke out more desirable plants.” The use of weeds as soil indicators is not…

UC ANR has created a page with some basic AI guidelines. It is in the Web section of the Communications Toolkit. The direct link is https://ucanr.edu/site/communications-toolkit/ai-tools.