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The California Honey Festival is the place to "bee" on Saturday, May 6 in downtown Woodland. The festival, free and family friendly, takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event celebrates the importance of bees, and promotes honey and honey bees and their products.

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 05-01-2023" ET Report 05-01-2023 Please see disclaimer link below: University of California Divisi...

In keeping in our theme of flood related problems, the excess moisture has really added impetus to local snail and slug populations.

Last month was National Volunteering Month and as a wrap up, here are some amazing things about volunteering you may not have known! History of Volunteering Volunteering is part of the fabric of our nation. From the very beginning, community members banded together to help each other out.

You may be noticing white grubs in your compost piles, lawns, or garden beds. These white, c-shaped critters can be 1/4 inch long or 2 inches long, depending on the species.

There are 1,800 species of earthworms grouped into five families and distributed all over the world. Some grow as long as 3 feet, while others are only a few tenths of inches. We call them nightcrawlers, field worms, manure worms, red worms and some people just say "yuck.

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To ensure we continue to enhance our security posture, we will be moving our infrastructure behind a new Palo Alto Firewall. During this maintenance window, UC ANR web services will be down and unavailable. This includes ucanr.edu, ArcCatalog, and all subdomains, i.e., website.ucanr.edu.

Richard Smith, Emeritus Vegetable Crop and Weed Science Farm Advisor; Eric Brennan, Research Horticulturalist USDA, ARS; Daniel Geisseler, Plant Nutrition Specialist, UCD; and Joji Muramoto, Organic Farming Specialist, UCSC In a recent blog on soil health, we discussed the importance of adding carbo...

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