Ongoing research

As we continually search for ways to improve gender inclusivity in Spanish, we have come up with a myriad of broad language such as Latino/a and Latin@. The most recent of these solutions is the term Latinx.

Updated Version of 12/24/18 blog to correct errors Advice for the Home Gardener from the Help Desk UC Master Gardener Program of Contra Costa County Client's Request: I would like to plant an avocado tree that has the following specifications: I live in West County where it is cool and foggy and I w...

Many gardeners are interested in knowing how winter temperatures affect garden pests. The hope is that following a cold wintersuch as this yearfewer pests will survive to plague the garden. Unfortunately, both insect pests and plant diseases have ways of surviving our harshest winters.

The Healthy Schools Act was originally developed as a notification program to let students and adults who work or visit schools to know when pesticides were going to be applied.

Over the past couple years, I have received many questions from ranchers and also from landowners with small (1 to 10-acre) parcels who want to seed their fields. They want to know what to seed, how to seed, and where to get seed.

Mark your calendar! "Beekeeping and Management" will be part of the two-day UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine's 2019 winter conference presented by its Center for Continuing Education in February 2019.

Bev Anderson knew something was wrong. All my life I've known my feet didn't have the strength and capability of most of the people I knew, she recalled. In high school, she began experiencing severe pain. Her family physician diagnosed her as having growing pains. They weren't.

Shades of brown and grey cast over bricks, cement, remnants of metal roofs and steel beams from manufactured and modular homes, collapsed stucco walls, BBQs, shells of washers and driers, along with an occasional tea potthat is what you can see in and amongst living, but singed Ponderosa pine and Ca...

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