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 By Isabela PakbazIf you are looking for a way to increase your nutrient intake during winter, diversify the greens options in your diet or just get your gardening “fix” during the slow outdoor months, consider growing microgreens indoors! Microgreens are seedlings harvested just after their first…

In This IssuePlant of the Month - The Mighty Oak TreeActivities at the Donna Critchfield Demonstration GardenRecipe of the Month - A Knock Your Socks Off Holiday FeastSafety Notes - Pruning SafetyGarden GuideScience Word of the Month - atmospheric riverLink to Constant Contact: https://conta.cc/47kz9HY …

Here on the North Coast, we are blessed with moderate winter temperatures and abundant moisture in the form of fog, rain, mist, spritz, drizzle, downpours, and the occasional bomb cyclone. All that moisture and our abundant plant growth make for some terrific slug habitat. Now is the time to search out their…

 Not everything is big in Texas.If you're used to seeing the huge Texas longhorns, with horns spanning eight feet in length from tip to tip, then this is quite the comparison.Entomologist Jeff Smith, the volunteer curator of the Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis, just…