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On Friday June 5th, UCCE Ventura will launch a local campaign as part of UC ANR's statewide giving day, which we're calling Big Dig Day...a day to dig deep to support the UCCE programs that you care about in Ventura County.

Cynthia Kerson I have Centranthus ruber (Red Valerian) in my front yard, a perennial in the Valerianaceae family. This drought-tolerant, sun-loving plant flowers most of the summer if you trim it at the stem axis of spent flowers. It makes great cut flowers.

All UC ANR colleagues are invited to a special staff meeting and recognition event at 2 p.m. on Thursday, June 18.

Monday, June 1 at 5 p.m. is the deadline to suggest a species name for a new genus of trapdoor spiders that UC Davis professor Jason Bond discovered on a sandy beach at Moss Landing State Park, Monterey County. Bond proposes to name the genus, Cryptocteniza, part of which means hidden or secret.

Unprecedented is an increasingly common adjective these days. It should be no surprise that unprecedented times often inspire unprecedented responses. Volunteer service by California Naturalists is no exception.

Noted vaccine expert Kate Broderick, who is leading an INOVIO research team in San Diego to develop a DNA vaccine for COVID-19, will deliver a presentation and answer questions at the UC Davis-based COVID-19 Virtual Symposium on Wednesday, June 3. We are fortune to obtain Dr.

Big Dig Day is almost here! It's a day to show support for your local Master Gardener Program.

By Susanne von Rosenberg, UC Master Gardener of Napa County Weeds can serve some useful purposes, but unless you're an unusual gardener, you probably still prefer to decide what gets to grow in your garden and what doesn't.

Had the fruit pictured below show up in one of my pick plots, and figured I'd put this one out to the readers on some opinions on what this could be. The brown lesions on the fruit are hard, but not sunken like one would see with anthracnose.

Marino named UCCE orchard specialist Giulia Marino joined UC ANR as a UCCE orchard systems specialist in the Department of Plant Sciences at UC Davis on Jan. 22, 2020.