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Lin Fraker graduated from the Expanded Food & Nutrition Education Program in Tulare County after completing the four-week virtual curriculum, UCCE Connects 2U. Online classes were led by Mariana Lopez, UC Cooperative Extension nutrition educator.

As a child, Sandra Bonilla had a strong connection with the natural world, however, when she grew up and began introducing people of color from Southern California's poorest neighborhoods to local mountains and forests, she said they felt marginalized.

When five-year-old Rebecca Jean RJ Millena entered her kindergarten class in Concord, Calif., she immediately settled on a career choice: entomology. An About Me poster hanging in her childhood home in Concord confirms it: When I grow up, I want to be an entomologist. She did and she is.

Building my Pig Pen By Ryker Mattia, Miners Ravine 4-H Community Club My name is Ryker and this is my first year in the Miners Ravine 4-H Club swine project. I have been attending my swine project meetings, my leader Mark Karthouser is very nice.

It's Spring so when the weather warms the soil enough to put your favorite varieties of tomatoes in the ground, we'll give you food for thought so you can start thinking about your plans. Plum, grape, cherry, beefsteak, heirloom.

I inherited a Nerium oleander (Oleander) when I bought my house three years ago. At first, I did not know what it was much less pay attention to it. It never needed any water, and it produced these lovely pink flowers every year. To me, it was just a bush on the crowded south side of my house.

While you are outside gardening or inside doing your spring cleaning, you may have recently found small, round, speckled beetles you've never seen before.

Apply for the 4-H Visa Prepaid Debit Card See attached flyer for information and link Help Kern County 4-H today!...

Researchers at the California Data Analysis and Tactical Operations Center (DATOC) have analyzed Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) trapping data along major transportation routes before and after tarping regulations for bulk citrus shipments were enacted.