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Grants up to $25,000 for small businesses that have been impacted by COVID including farmers and ranchers Healthy Soils updates...

One of my favorite late fall/winter blooming plants is the sunny "Mexican Marigold" (Tagetes lemmonii), which provides cheerful color in the colder months. This marigold isn't your small garden bed variety. It is a large, sprawling shrub that is assertive in both color and fragrance.

A post-fire area of the Sierra Nevada mountains with negligible conifer regeneration. (Joseph Stewart, UC Davis/USGS) In the aftermath of megafires that devastated forests of the western United States, attention turns to whether forests will regenerate on their own or not.

Seen any bumble bees lately in Yolo or Solano counties? If so, and if you photograph the first one of the year, you might win the Bohart Museum of Entomology's contest.

Happy 2021 everyone! My realistic hope is that 2021 has fewer surprises than popped up in 2020.

Be on the lookout for the first bumble bee of the year in Yolo and Solano counties.

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS UC SAREP Small Grants in Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Applications are due February 15, 2021 One-year grants of up to $7,000 are available to fund pilot projects and research projects that support California's farmers and ranchers and/or rural and urban communiti...

California Small Business COVID-19 Relief Grant Program All farm and ag businesses are eligible to apply for these grants, ranging from $5,000-$25,000.

Growers considering producing avocados in San Diego County with high-density plantings now have help to determine the economic feasibility.

Mark your calendars for the next UC ANR Virtual Town Hall on Thursday, Feb. 18, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Login info and past recordings are located at https://ucanr.edu/sites/anrstaff/All_Hands. Town halls are usually held on the third Thursday of each month.