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GivingTuesday is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. It's an opportunity for people around the world to give through acts of kindness or gifts of time, talent or money. On Dec.

Two years ago, I shared my first blog about the Zasso electrical weed control (EWC) unita tractor-mounted device powered by the tractor's PTO.

Mary Bianchi, UC Cooperative Extension horticulture advisor emeritus, died on Nov. 4. She was 67. Bianchi served the University of California for 32 years, with the last 26 years of her UCCE career in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.

For many years, I heard that peonies cannot be grown in California. The reasons: it is in the wrong part of the country, it is too warm here, and finally, it just won't work. I really did, until I went to Fioli with a horticulture class.

Research Brief • November 2024 • Download PDF (171 KB)BackgroundThe federal Child and Adult Care Food Program, or CACFP, provides nutritious meals and snacks to over 4.7 million US children, predominantly from families with lower incomes, through reimbursements to their childcare providers.1 Family childcare…

Many of us enjoy using herbs in our kitchen since they add so much flavor and texture to our food. And it is even more fun when we grow them ourselves and can pick them straight from the garden.

Congrats to two UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology doctoral candidates: Mia Lippey and Ziv Lieberman.

A few weeks ago Mark got a call from a person who was wondering why a fungus that we work with, he believes it was Zythia ,also has another name, that being Gnomonia. There's quite a bit to sort out here, and so please follow us here.

Image: California Department of Fish & Wildlife, CC BY 2.0.

Large scale demonstration of chemigated rimsulfuron treatments for branched broomrape control in California processing tomato Matthew Fatino, Brad Hanson Plant Sciences Department, University of California, Davis Branched broomrape is an obligate holoparasite that can attach to a wide variety of agr...