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Are you interested in helping others and giving back to your community? Do you have a passion for gardening and volunteering? The Stanislaus County* UC Master Gardener Program is accepting applications for 2024.

Position: Agronomy Advisor Applied Research and Extension (AP#23-09) Location: This position will be headquartered in the UCCE Siskiyou County office in Yreka, CA. Closing date: August 31, 2023 Job Description: https://ucanr.

UC Cooperative Extension Lake & Mendocino Counties invite you to attend the Thursday, August 24, 2023 7:45 AM-1:00 PM Kelseyville, CA (see address for locations below) Please join us for the Lake-Mendocino Counties Grapes and Olive Field Day.

Has this been an amazing spring or what? Everything is so full of promise in the garden, and we've been having one of those long springs .

As I was driving around my old neighborhood I saw a splash of color that caught my eye and piqued my curiosity. As I kept driving I kept seeing this fuchsia colored flowering shrub. I immediately came home and identified it. It was Centranthus ruber, commonly known as Red Valerian or Spur Valerian.

This week on In the Garden with UC Master Gardeners, MG and host Bill Brooks talks with fellow Master Gardener Pennie Louwers and President of the South Coast Plumeria Society Jacki Kamphuis about how to grow plumerias.

In This Edition 2- Committee & Council Mtgs. 2- New Council Officers 2- Whites Exchange 2- Purchase 4-H Uniforms 3- Project Leader Workshop 3- Military History Book Proj. 4- National 4-H Week 4- Livestock Proj.

Ah, the fiery skipper, Hylephila phyleus! They are, as UC Davis distinguished professor emeritus Art Shapiro says, "California's most urban butterfly." Shapiro, who has monitored the butterfly populations of Calfornia since 1972 and maintains a research website at https://butterfly.ucdavis.

Lorrene Ritchie, director of the Nutrition Policy Institute and University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources cooperative extension specialist, received the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior Platinum Author Recognition Award in June 2023.

California Central Coast growers and others now have help estimating costs and potential returns for growing lettuce and broccoli.