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Congratulations to our 52 San Bernardino County University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Master Gardener graduates from all corners of the county! Please help Master Gardener Coordinator Maggie O'Neill, previously certified Master Gardeners and myself welcome these new volunteers who co...

The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's seminar on Wednesday, Feb. 26 will feature six Faculty Flash Talks. The seminar, set from 4:10 to 5 p.m. in 122 Briggs Hall, will include Joanna Chiu, Jason Bond, Geoffrey Attardo, Rachel Vannette, Julia Fine, and Arathi Seshadri.

Rose Care and Pruning Advice by Mary Brooks, Merced Master Gardener ... to read full newsletter, click on nearby link.

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If you're looking for a thought-provoking discussion on insect biodiversity and decline, mark your calendars. Chemical ecologist and conservation biologist Leslie Saul-Gershenz of UC Davis and Norman Gershenz, conservation biologist and CEO of SaveNature.

By Denise Seghesio Levine, UC Master Gardener of Napa County First, a disclaimer. While there are many wonderful landscape and garden designers who are Master Gardeners, I am not one of them. Garden design is still pretty experimental for me even after all these years.

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Authors: Alli Fish and Niki Mazaroli, Strategy Research Science Silvopasture is the intentional and intensive combination of trees, forage, and livestock on the same piece of land.

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If you follow CalNat on social media, this picture taken by Shane Feirer (a colleague at UCANR Hopland Research and Education Center) might look familiar to you. Shane went out to his yard one evening to cook dinner for his family on the BBQ. When he opened it up, he found it was FULL of acorns.