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Kate Frey: Gardening for Bees, Beauty and Diversity

May 12, 2017
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Many mothers will receive a stunning bouquet of flowers on Sunday, Mother's Day. Others will learn how to design and plant a stunning pollinator garden so they can grow--and enjoy--their own flowers. Honey bees, bumble bees and other pollinators will appreciate it, too.
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New Avocados for the Valley?

May 12, 2017
By Ben A Faber
California avocados are the best in the world. So says downtown restaurant manager Daniel Avalos in a Valley Public Radio story by reporter Ezra David Romero.
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Crowd-Pleasing Hamilton Will Be at Dixon May Fair

May 10, 2017
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If you missed seeing Hamilton, not to worry. Hamilton will be at the 142nd annual Dixon May Fair on Friday, May 12. Not the crowd-pleasing Broadway musical, but a crowd-pleasing scorpion named Hamilton, a resident of the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology.
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Avocado Illusion

May 10, 2017
By Ben A Faber
Old crop, new crop. What's up there in the trees? Are they big enough to sell? Is there a good set for next year? These are questions every avocado grower has every year, and often all year long. What is up there in the trees is confounded by what is called the "Avocado Illusion".
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Bugs to the Fair: From UC Davis to the Dixon May Fair

May 9, 2017
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
The theme of the 142nd annual Dixon May Fair set Thursday, May 11 through Sunday, May 14, is "Farm to Fair." But you could also say: "Bugs to Fair!" That's because the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, will have a presence there, all in the Floriculture Building.
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Farmers gather for training at a previous conservation agriculture field day. A half-day workshop titled 'Benefits of Soil Management for Farming Systems" will be held June 6, 2017, at the UC West Side Research and Extension Center in Five Points.
Conservation Agriculture: Article

Soil management training slated for June 6 in Five Points

May 8, 2017
By Jeannette Warnert
UC Cooperative Extension will train farmers June 6 at the UC West Side Research and Extension Center in Five Points on the benefits of soil management and a systems-oriented approach for achieving healthy soil. The free program runs from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and includes lunch.
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MOU Signing Ceremony in Winters, CA for the California Farm Demonstration Network.
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MOU Signing Ceremony for the California Farm Demonstration Network

May 8, 2017
By Jeffrey P Mitchell
About fifty people gathered at the farm of Russ Lester just west of Winters, CA on a beautiful afternoon on the 5th of May for the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding for the California Farm Demonstration Network, a major undertaking by the University of California's Division of Agriculture a...
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