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This year's Regional Rendezvous (August 16-18) will host an abundance of learning opportunities for our CalNat participants. Aside from the amazing activities and adventures (such as kayaking, birding, historic building and nature preserve visits, traditional tool use workshop, etc.

Do you Want to Learn How to Garden More Sustainably and How To Preserve Your Fruits and Vegetables? Attend a free library workshop listed below in Crestline, Yucaipa, or Fontana taught by trained UC Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners and Master Food Preservers.

Boys' Night Out! Have you ever seen a cluster of longhorned male bees sleeping overnight on a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia)?

UC Riverside is testing whether a sesame seed-sized wasp can control a pest that could seriously damage California crops including wine, walnuts, and avocados. The pest, a sap-sucking spotted lantern fly, is originally from China and was first detected five years ago in Pennsylvania.

The California Master Beekeeper Program (CAMBP), directed by Extension apiculturist Elina Lastro Nio of the University of California-Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is hosting two short courses in early August: one on Planning Ahead for Your First Hives and the other, Working Your Col...

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Used coffee grounds are abundantly available for the asking at your local coffee shop. But just because the item is free, is it beneficial for composting? Compost your coffee - Coffee grounds add nitrogen to the compost, but as fertilizer they do not add nitrogen immediately to the soil.