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By Melody Kendall This is the second of four articles describing plants and their care featured in the UC Master Gardeners of Napa County's low water, low maintenance area at the Las Flores Learning Garden.

Steve Fennimore is a Professor of Extension (Cooperative Extension Weed Specialist) at UC Davis. His office is located in Salinas, California. Small acreage Brassica vegetables need additional herbicide options.

After 9 years of expanding and improving the California Naturalist program and helping to usher in the UC Climate Stewards course, our Coastal Northern California Community Education Specialist, Brook Gamble, is moving on to a new organization.

"Scientists now understand how certain animals can feed on picturesque, orange monarch butterflies, which are filled from head to abdomen with milkweed plant toxins. "In high enough concentrations, milkweed can kill a horse, or a human.

Simon "Niels" Groen, assistant professor of evolutionary systems biology, UC Riverside, will present a UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar on "Plant Toxins and the Evolution of Host-Parasite Interactions" on Wednesday, Feb. 2. He will speak in person at 4:10 p.m.

These aeoniums are long-time valued residents in my backyard. They are very common succulents, but I am fond of them. Being a new gardener (with no green thumb!) any plant, no matter how common, that survives in my backyard, deserves care and devotion.

A new study from University of California researchers suggests that most fast food restaurants in low-income neighborhoods in California are not offering beverages online in a way that is consistent with the state's healthy beverage law for children's meals sold on the restaurant's website and popul...

Nutrition Policy Institute researchers are partnering with pediatrician and public health researcher Anisha Patel from Stanford University on a new National Institutes of Health-funded study to understand the impact of a childcare-based healthy beverage intervention.

“Oaks are key to the character and legacy of California — its visual beauty, the vigor of its rivers and streams, the clarity of its air, the richness of its wildlife.” — “Secrets of the Oak Woodlands” by Kate MarianchildStress is in ample supply these days, whether it’s aggravation from the news or…

Predator Protection in Rangeland Livestock Operations One of the first projects I worked on when I started this job was a publication called Livestock Protection Tools for California Ranchers.