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I feel like I've said this every year for the last decade, but what a strange weather year we're having! Here in Auburn, we experienced the most intense rainfall in October that I can remember (with more than 8 inches falling in a 48 hour period).

Meetings and Announcements Planting Time...

After growing up in northern British Columbia, in a remote smelter town called Kitimat (an 8-hour drive from the nearest McDonald's), University of California Professor of Cooperative Extension Linda J.

What Preschoolers Drink Why Water?

UC IPM's popular Meet the Beneficials: Natural Enemies of Garden Pests poster is available to the UC Master Gardener Program for free! This helpful resource makes a great gift to new trainees or as a program incentive. Coordinators can request up to 50 copies of the poster using this request form.

I am behind on everything! Ever feel that way? Only two weeks into merit and promotion season and I am well behind on my self-imposed deadlines and already giving up the time I had set aside to read documents in order to accommodate other meetings.

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It was a whopping 100-fold increase. California's 2021 western monarch Thanksgiving count, directed by the Xerces Society of Invertebrate Conservation, recorded 250,000 overwintering monarchs, as compared to a mere 2000 in 2020.

With the continued group size restrictions, social distancing and general uncertainty, some counties have adopted a hybrid UC Master Gardener training.