Ongoing research

Central Coast growers and support staff should be looking to clear their calendars this coming October 8 for a Zoom call sponsored by the California Strawberry Commission and featuring plant pathologists Peter Henry and Akif Eskalen, myself and plant breeder Steve Knapp.

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Plain water is recommended to replace sugar-sweetened beverages to support health, yet concerns about tap water safety and barriers to access present challenges to making water the beverage of choice.

Opportunities and challenges for industrial hemp production in California are being revealed in a series of UC Cooperative Extension research projects.

It is definitely harvest time in my garden - I guess it has been for awhile. Like all good gardeners, I browsed the seed catalogs and found two new varieties to try out this season: Burbank Red Slicing Tomato and Crane Melon.

Learn about a FREE gardening conference & a new community partnership, meet a Master Gardener, and see our response to a Helpline question about tomato blight. We're the UC Master Gardeners of Santa Barbara County, and we give "advice to grow by" to home gardeners.

A few weeks ago, I heard that my mom and my brother were going on a road trip to San Francisco. Normally, I wouldn't care to go. I hated the traffic. But since the only road trips I've had in months had been going to the grocery store or picking-up take-out food, I wanted to go.

Butterfly expert Robert "Bob" Michael Pyle, founder of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, is not only a national award-winning author, a teacher, a public speaker and a conservationist--but now he's on screen. Well, sort of "on screen.

Behavioral health disorders, such as depression and anxiety, affect a significant number of Americans each year. In 2017 one in eight youths between 12 to 17 years old experienced a major depressive episode compared to one in 14 adults.

Over the last three days, we've had a stark reminder about our vulnerability to wildfire and public safety power shutoffs here in the Sierra foothills.