Ongoing research

The Edibles Demonstration Garden team took steps in the last month to move toward spring and summer plantings. We also made the decision to postpone our dreams of expanding our fruit tree orchard until the next bare-root season...

As we welcomed the New Year, our winter garden had come to life. We are now harvesting the fruits of our fall labors: beautiful heads of broccoli, arugula, spicy mesclun mix, lettuce, spinach, kale...

December arrived and found our team enjoying some well-deserved rest. The planting of our winter garden is finished and now we are just waiting for it to start producing.

What a busy month weve had in the Edibles Demonstration Garden. We finished out the busy summer season by harvesting our winter squash...

This fall our team has been busy ordering seeds for our winter garden and then starting them in the greenhouse to get a good jump on our plantings.

Fall has arrived and the Edibles Demonstration Garden (EDG) has begun the shift to our fall/winter garden.

The April 2021 issue of the Roundup is now available.

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You've heard of "bats in the belfry," right? Well, how about "bees in the bell tower"? The Epiphany Episcopal Church of Vacaville, Calif., has just that: bees in its bell tower. (See Bug Squad blog, Blessed Are the Bees.

Yes, it's that time again where we can all be Irish for a day! I was originally gathering information on another topic when Steve handed me the grocery ads from the mail. Seems like everybody had shamrock plants for sale.