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I try to rely less and less on controlling nature. Instead I am learning to live with its chaos. ~ Mas Masumoto Tasks Monitor fruiting pear and apple trees for codling moth. To control powdery mildew on grapevines, apply sulfur every 14 days until fruit begins to taste sweet.

Summers are getting hotter in much of the U.S., including our local environment. One way to counteract this change in climate is by planting trees to provide more shade in the summer months. But adjusting to a shadier garden also means shifting to different plant choices.

UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education and The VINE launch indoor farming classes A new, comprehensive and advanced learning experience in indoor farming is now available for growers.

An unmarked queen bee isn't easy to spot.

Watch out ACP, Persea Mite, Avocado Thrips. Here comes Snake Fly. Not a snake. And not a fly. But a snakefly. It's always fun to be reminded that there are lots of different predators out there, and this one is one of the more voracious.

On a small production farm in Plumas County, the Lost Sierra Food Project (LSFP) increases rural food access and provides workforce development and farm education opportunities while serving as a key community gathering place.

Let's chat about something a bit funky but oh-so-amazing for our gardens: chicken poop. It's jam-packed with all the good stuff plants love nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium you name it. Your veggies and flowers will be slurping up those nutrients like they've hit the jackpot at the salad bar.

Protea is a species of flowering plants from South Africa. It is a member of the Leucadendron family, also commonly known as the sugarbush. Interestingly enough, it belongs to an ancient angiosperm, which evidence from pollen fossils that date back to 80 million years ago.

You are invited to attend the Disbudding workshop where we will discuss calf disbudding practices, and understand anatomy for an effective disbudding. The workshop will be offered in English and Spanish and will take place on June 11th from 12-1:30 at the UC Davis -VTMTRC in Tulare.

The 2023-2024 Youth Development Program year ends on June 30, 2024. At the end of each program year, the online enrollment system resets and all enrollments rollover into an "inactive" state. The ZSuite enrollment system will begin this process on June 21, 2024.