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The California Department of Food and Agriculture's Healthy Soil Program provides funding for on-farm initiatives aimed at implementing soil practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhance carbon storage.

Peach leaf curl is a fungal disease that only affects peach and nectarine trees. The fungus causes distorted, reddened leaves to appear on the tree in the spring.

Do you need a little indoor cheer during the gloomy winter? Are you ready for spring as soon as we turn back the clocks? Try forcing some bulbs for beautiful blooms in winter. Any spring bulbs can be forced into winter blooms indoors. Paper whites are inexpensive and easy to grow indoors.

UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock, internationally recognized for discovering a new group of human chemical mediators, is a newly inducted Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences (CAS).

Open Enrollment is coming to an end! You have until 5 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 17, 2023, to enroll or make changes to your benefits just select "faculty & staff" or "retirees" on the Open Enrollment website.

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A perfect fall day for a visit to the Kearney Ag Station greeted new ag education professionals from the California Agricultural Teachers Association on the 7th of November.

I am pleased to announce that Steven Worker has agreed to serve as the Strategic Initiative leader for Healthy Families & Communities.

Hollyhock By Jutta Thoerner UCCE Master Gardener Scientific name: Alcea species Plant size: 3-8 feet tall, 1-3 feet wide. Bloom description and season: Flowers are single or double, cup shaped and start at the bottom of the stalk and continue all the way up.