Our book club is currently reading Silent Spring written by Rachel Carson 1964. The book highlights how the misuse of pesticides affected our ecosystem and brought about major social, political, and environmental movements of today.
Doan named UCCE small farms advisor Hung Doan joined UCCE as a small farms and specialty crops advisor serving Riverside and San Bernardino counties on Nov. 1. Before joining UC ANR, Doan was an instructor for an USAID-funded Farmer-to-Farmer Program in Guyana.
If you follow Gwentomologist on Instagram, you'll see fascinating images, videos and data on scores of insects, including bees, butterflies and beetles, and such curious critters as wasp-mimicking beetles (genus Clytus) and burying beetles or Nicrophorus beetles (genus Nicrophorus).
Gardeners sometimes call the Master Gardener help line asking if a soil test is necessary before planting a home garden. For most people, the answer is usually no. In some cases, soil analysis can help identify an unusual problem, such as excess soil salts or minor element deficiencies.
When I was a first-grader in North Carolina, my mom sent me and two of my younger siblings out to look for holly in a wooded area near our home just before Christmas.
In September and October 2021, over 100 land, resource, and fire professionals and community members came together to learn about fire in Southern California with UCANR and the Council for Watershed Health.
