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Dear Colleagues, The California Department of Water Resources is launching the 2021 Roundtable of Regions Summit, Climate Resilience and Integrated Regional Water Management: Building Successful Partnerships.

Dear Colleagues, USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture is seeking proposals for the Food Safety Outreach Program (FSOP) to develop and implement food safety training, education, extension, outreach and technical assistance projects that address the needs of owners and operators of small to...

A neighborly project by entomologist Jeff Smith, the volunteer curator of the worldwide Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California Davis, has ended on a sweet note that will benefit the museum.

Our friend Lynn Sosnoskie (at Cornell University) shared the following announcement with us: A free (downloadable) resource Manage Weeds on Your Farm A Guide to Ecological Strategies Manage-Weeds-on-Your-Farm.pdf (sare.

Welcome to Dr. Hung Doan who started Monday, November 1st as a Small Farms Advisor, based in Moreno Valley, with programmatic responsibilities in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. We are excited that Dr.

by Dianne Weyna My experience with buying ginger root from the grocery store is that I use a small piece from the large piece I buy, and the rest either starts to grow or goes bad.

In a previous blog post, I introduced a project about using nitrogen (N) rich reference zones in wheat. The goal of the project is to show how N-rich reference zones can be used to guide N fertilization in small grains, to increase crop productivity and N use efficiency.

We are excited to let all California Naturalists, Climate Stewards, and course partners know that we are nearing the final stages of a big transition to a new and much improved Volunteer Management System! Ever feel a little frustrated with the limitations and service disruptions in our current syst...

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After the recent downpours, many people are also now experiencing the down-blow of autumn leaves. In my former hometown, we would rake the leaves into a huge pile on the street curb.