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This spring, I am teaching the Santa Rosa Junior College Rangeland Management class. This is my opportunity to educate aspiring students on the importance of rangelands and how to manage them.

Dear 4-H Families, You all recently received an email from me that was intended for San Benito County. Please accept my apologies and disregard this email. My 4-H On-line filter grabbed all the families in the tri-county area by mistake.

Viv Patterson and Trish Schlichting, both Inyo/Mono Master Gardeners, visited the Flower Clock in Geneva, Switzerland, this past October. Geneva is recognized all around the world for its watch-making tradition. In 1955 Geneva created the biggest clock in the world made from flowers.

Reposted from the UCANR Green Blog Four months have passed since the Camp Four months have passed since the Camp Fire, the worst wildfire in California history, ravaged bucolic communities in the Butte County foothills, including Paradise, Concow, Butte Creek Canyon, Cherokee, Yankee Hill and Magali...

Dear 4-H Families, You all recently received an email from me that was intended for San Benito County. Please accept my apologies and disregard this email. My 4-H On-line filter grabbed all the families in the tri-county area by mistake.

Dear Colleagues, UC Research Initiatives is pleased to announce the release of the 2020 Request for Proposals for the UC National Laboratory Fees Research Program.

Ventura County 4-H Presentation Day took place on Saturday, March 23 at UC Hansen Agricultural Research and Extension Center. Presentations took place in the small and large barns as well as our new conference room, and the interviews took place in our 4-H offices.

Dear Colleagues, USDA NIFA has recently announced an opportunity for Sustainable Agricultural Systems awarding $10M per project. The amount available for new grants in this FY 2019 SAS RFA is $90 million.

Please see the attached updated flyer with information about Bitterwater Land Field Day to be held on April 20 at a San Luis Obispo County Ranch! We have added "driving direction".

Yes, I'll have some mustard, please. Yes, both the pollen and the nectar, thank you. We watched a honey bee buzz into our little mustard patch, her proboscis (tongue) extended, and pollen weighting her down. If she were at the airport, someone would have volunteered to carry her bags.