Ongoing research

In keeping with the Patrick Ranch Museum's mission to enhance people's understanding and appreciation of our community's rich agricultural heritage, a half-acre plot planted in heirloom almond varieties is situated between the Museum's entry road and the Master Gardener Demonstration Garden.

In commemoration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in May, you are invited to attend a special virtual presentation, "Stories in Seeds: Asian American Identity as Rooted in Heirloom Crops," by Kristyn Leach of Namu Farms and Second Generation Seeds.

I had the picture below sent to me just this morning by Joji Muramoto and student assistant Cole Margarite of an unusual discovery they made while picking strawberries. In the photo provided by Cole below, that cluster of round white objects stuck to the side of the berry are stink bug eggs.

UC Davis distinguished professor James R. Carey will speak on "The Conceptual Sweep of a Mathematical Discovery in Insect Biodemography: From Medfly Populations to the U.S. Congress" at the Wednesday, May 25th seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.

UC Master Gardeners UC ANR Giving Day is happening now! Join us online until noon tomorrowFriday, 5/20as we highlight the impact of our program across the state. donate.ucanr.

Click on the attachment for all your end of year information for 4-H in Inyo & Mono Counties.

Our green hills are gone Replaced with dry yellow grasses Up to us to prevent fires...

So there we were, checking out the bumble bee mimics (Anthophora bomboides stanfordiana) on May 9 at Bodega Head, Sonoma County, and along buzzes a pollen-packing Habropoda miserabilis, the bee that UC Davis doctoral alumnus Leslie Saul-Gershenz studies.

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