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Hi We just posted the Central Coast Rangeland Research Update presentations on our website, which was held on 9/29/2020.

During the course of our daily lives, most people walk right past storm and sewer drains never giving them much thought. But..

During the course of our daily lives, most people walk right past storm and sewer drains never giving them much thought. But..

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It's now October so that means that we're now in the time of year where we start to wind down our gardens for the season. If you're at all like me and refuse to plan for the eventual coming cold weather by pulling out plants, a killing frost will force the matter.

In this issue: Long Pruning Webinar Save the Date! UC Prune Research Conference Fall & Winter Prune Orchard Management Considerations Cytospora: A Prune Growers Arch Nemesis New UC Davis Prune Cultivars Prove Promising...

Imagine a healthy garden that grows, blooms, and produces food for you, your family and your neighbors, a garden that costs you very little money because everything it needs is already provided.

Results for the 2019-2020 fall planted UC Small Grain Variety Trials are now available at: http://smallgrains.ucanr.

UC President Michael Drake attended his first meeting with the President's Advisory Commission on Agriculture and Natural Resources (PAC) on Sept. 30.

For the first butterfly, it was the right place at the right time. An alfalfa or sulfur butterfly (Colias eurytheme) fluttered into our pollinator garden in Vacaville to sip some nectar from a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia rotundifolia). It lingered for several minutes.