Ongoing research

Please see below link to access "How To Use Weekly Crop Water Use (ET) Reports to Assist Farm Water Management" How to Use Weekly Crop Water Use Report Please see below link to access "Weekly ET Report 07-24-2023" ET Report 07-24-2023 Please see disclaimer link below: University of California Divisi...

Bailey Smith-Helman is our newest Community Education Specialist with the UC ANR Climate Smart Agriculture Program based in Santa Cruz County. She is excited to provide technical assistance to growers interested in climate smart agriculture practices.

Besides gardening, I love birds and have several birdhouses in my garden. A few years ago, in early spring, I found a couple of plants growing at the base of a birdhouse in the backyard. At first, I thought they were weeds.

Ever see a white, cottony looking, waxy mess on the trunk of your grapevines? And other locations? No, it's not candle wax. This sticky, cottony mess is the secretion of a waxy material by vine mealybugs.

El rpido crecimiento de la industria de canabbis o marihuana, puede tener repercusiones medioambientales de gran alcance, entre ellas la prdida de hbitats, contaminacin del agua y cambios demogrficos entre los trabajadores.

Fireworks are over Heat has arrived Garden smart and keep everything alive (plants and you)...

The Climate Smart Agriculture Program published an interactive online story map highlighting the program's focus areas and team of experts.

Nutrition Policy Institute's senior researcher Wendi Gosliner was recently appointed as a workgroup member to the National Institutes of Health, Agriculture and Diet: Value Added for Nutrition, Translation and Adaptation in a Global Ecology, also known as the ADVANTAGE Project.

It's a beautiful morning and life is good. A male leafcutter bee (genus Megachile) drops down on a spent flower in a Vacaville pollinator garden. He's warming his flight muscles, ready to greet the day--and maybe a female of his species. Mr.

Ten years ago, Guy Kyser wrote an excellent blog on the identification of Northern California's Big Three invasive thistles.