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UC Master Gardeners of Santa Barbara County and Mesa Harmony Garden present: Summer Pruning of Fruit Trees & Tool Sharpening Demo When: August 10, 2024 9:30 AM Free Tool Sharpening Demo 10:00 AM 12:00 PM Workshop Where: Mesa Harmony Garden 500 Delores Dr.

UC Master Gardeners of Santa Barbara County present: Easy to Grow Houseplants Monday, August 5, 2024 7:00 8:00 PM Master Gardeners Sue Solomon, Lorie Nash, and Emmy Guzzon will present a research-based talk on how to care for houseplants, their growing needs, repotting, pruning, how to address poss...

You really do not want voles (also called meadow mice) moving into your garden. They are larger than a house mouse or deer mouse but do not quite reach the size of an adult gopher or rat.

UC Davis and UC Cooperative Extension will host the UC Dry Bean Field Day on Thursday, August 15, 2024 from 9:30am to 11:45am. The field day will begin at the Agronomy Field Headquarters (2400 Hutchison Drive) on the UC Davis campus.

UC Davis and UC Cooperative Extension will host the UC Dry Bean Field Day on Thursday, August 15, 2024 from 9:30am to 11:45am. The field day will begin at the Agronomy Field Headquarters (2400 Hutchison Drive) on the UC Davis campus.

Pesticides and fertilizers applied around homes, residential or commercial landscapes, school sites, and other areas can enter our creeks, rivers, and oceans, degrading water quality.

As an ergonomic consultant, I have worked with businesses whose employees perform a lot of tasks requiring manual dexterity. Construction sites, wineries and high-tech clean rooms are good examples. Almost without exception, these workplaces present situations that require gloves.

A crab spider, family Thomisidae, lies motionless in a patch of lavender, waiting to ambush a honey bee. So here I am, a crab spider, as hungry as can be Does anyone out there feel sorry for me? "Yes," say the arachnologists. The apiculturists say "no.

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