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Melody Kendall It has been my observation that, by nature, gardeners love new plants and because of this their gardens change and evolve each season.

Woodpeckers are well known, colorful birds often found in wooded neighborhoods and forested areas.

From the Rice Notes April 2022 newsletter Kassim Al-Khatib is the Melvin D. Androus Endowed Professor for Weed Science at UC Davis and a Cooperative Extension Weed Science Specialist. Herbicide resistance is a serious problem in California rice.

Cucumbers are an easy summer vegetable to grow in Napa County gardens. I'm sure of that, because last summer I participated in the Napa County Master Gardeners' field test of three different varieties, and we had more cucumbers than we could eat for a couple of months.

Walnut scale (Quadraspidiotus juglansregiae) is a common pest of walnut throughout California's Central Valley.

Folks will do just about anything to remove cockroaches from their homes, but when it comes to UC Davis Picnic Day, you can't remove people from them. Nor would UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology want that. Roach Races are an integral part of Picnic Day.

Pearsons joins UCCE as small farm advisor Kirsten Pearsons joined UC Cooperative Extension on March 1 as a small farm advisor for San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties.

Two UC Cooperative Extension scientists have been selected as Presidential Chairs for Tree Nuts at University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources.

A delegation of 12 UC ANR staff, academics, volunteers and stakeholders visited state legislators in Sacramento on April 19 for UC ANR Advocacy Day to share how UC ANR's work delivers local, place-based education, outreach and programming to serve communities throughout the state.

The Olive Oil Irrigation Field Day will be held on June 1, 2022. Information regarding the location and where to register is listed in the announcement. The event is hosted by the University of California Cooperative Extension and the Olive Oil Commission of California.