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Hello- Please see the attached "Spring 2021 San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara & Monterey Counties Newsletter No.

By Brittney Goodrich, Assistant Cooperative Extension Specialist, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis If you own or manage a commercial avocado orchard, you have likely debated at one point or another whether to seek out honey bee colonies to pollinate your orchard,...

Planting a vegetable garden can be a healthy and delicious way to provide yourself and your family with produce.

Humans have been stripping mother earth of her verdant, life supporting cloak for a long time, but the damage has shot up to a critical stage during recent years. To extend the metaphor further, earth has been stripped so bare that ecological systems are out of balance.

By Penny Pawl, UC Master Gardener of Napa County In the first old house my husband and I lived in in downtown Napa, we had the second floor and access to the attic. When we moved in, we had no idea there were bats in the attic.

Chemical engineer Javier Ceja-Navarro, a research scientist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Biological Systems and Engineering, will present the next UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology virtual seminar on "The Complex Microbial Life and Interactions in Lilliputian Lands...

Join UC Cooperative Extension for a FREE online workshop Tuesday, May 25, 2021 6:00 7:30 PM Topics Include: Poisonous Plants Yellow Starthistle Control Herbicide Resistant Weeds Weed ID and Management 101 Bonus Weed ID Session! Submit a picture of a weed and learn the name during the workshop! Clic...

Botanists Beverly Rathcke (1945-2011) and Jeanne Baret would have been proud. In their lifetimes, they didn't receive nearly enough credit for their work, but now they are memorialized in the names of newly described species of bacteria from the genus Acinetobacter that are specialized to flowers.

Join us on June 24th for Managing Risk in your Sheep Operation - Producer Workshop. The event will be held at Woolgrower's restaurant from 9 am to 1 pm. Registration is available at: http://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=33921 Flyer is attached.

To those of you who own cats, you are probably familiar with catnip Nepeta cataria, a common herb related to mint. Cats just go crazy over it. My cat is no exception, he rolls it, he rubs against it and he even eats it.