Cooperative Extension, Sutter-Yuba Counties

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Amy Rathbone is feeling lucky to collaborate with Mendocino forestland

March 28th, 2025
This interview concludes our Women’s History Month series- view three more interviews with women landowners on the blog home page! Every Forest Stewardship Workshop participant has their own, unique relationship with forests. For Amy Rathbone, purchasing a parcel of forestland with her husband meant…
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For Joy Jackman, restoring forestland is a decades-long dream come true

March 27th, 2025
By Grace N Dean
 This interview is part of our Women’s History Month series- check back this week for stories from female forest landowners to inspire your forest stewardship journey! Forests have been a part of Joy Jackman’s life since college, where she spent three summers as a US Forest Service forestry…
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Step by step, Julianna Olate is creating a healthier and more resilient forest

March 26th, 2025
By Grace N Dean
This interview is part of our Women’s History Month series- check back this week for more stories from female forest landowners to inspire your forest stewardship journey! Julianna Olate has stewarded forestland in Del Norte County since 2008, managing her own 80-acre parcel and her neighbor's 160-acre…
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Gain ideas for your own hardscaping by looking at how it is used in other countries, as in this example from Kyoto, Japan. J.C. Lawrence
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Planning Your Hardscape

March 24th, 2025
Hardscapes are the constructed features such as paths, patios and pergolas that make a landscape human-friendly.  Their permanent and relatively costly nature calls for careful planning before construction.  Here are some questions and suggestions to help in planning hardscape features for your yard.
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Desert marigold thriving in the Wildlife Habitat Garden at the Master Gardeners Demonstration Garden at Patrick Ranch. Laura Kling
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Wildlife-Friendly Garden

March 19th, 2025
At this time of year many gardeners reflect upon what worked in the garden over the past year, plan changes to implement in the coming months, and consider new plants to introduce. This Spring, why not begin planning a more wildlife-friendly garden?  You can encourage birds, butterflies, lizards, frogs and a…
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Lemon verbena, bee balm and echinacea growing together are a good example of companion planting. Joyce Hill.jpg
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Spring 2025 Upcoming Master Gardener Workshops

March 16th, 2025
By UC Master Gardeners of Butte County The Master Gardeners Spring Workshop Series is in full swing! The series began in February, but worry not -- there are plenty of topics still to be covered from now into June: fifteen workshops to be exact, seven of them on all-new subjects and eight on tried-and…
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Dianthus, the “Divine Flower”

March 12th, 2025
References to the plant genus Dianthus go back as far as the Greek botanist Theophrastus.  He named these plants from the Caryophyllaceae family “divine flower” (dios = divine plus anthos = flower). 
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Rod Stiefvater speaks at a Department of Plant Sciences seminar
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Gift extends UC Davis pistachio research on new scions, rootstocks

March 6th, 2025
By Emily C. Dooley
The University of California, Davis, is enhancing and expanding its Pistachio Breeding Program after a generous gift from philanthropist and pistachio farmer Rod Stiefvater, who is donating more than $335,000 over three years to develop new rootstocks that thrive under changing climate conditions.
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Boysenberries. Joyce Hill
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Growing Boysenberries in the Chico Area

February 28th, 2025
Boysenberries are a delicious, low-sugar treat, appreciated by pie and jam connoisseurs alike. The Boysen berry is classified as a blackberry along with the Olallie berry and the Marion berry.
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California producers: Climate change is real; we could use a little help

February 26th, 2025
By Trina Kleist
How can farmers and ranchers continue to grow our food while facing challenges of a changing climate, increasingly scarce water, land use pressures and rising costs? UC and UC ANR scientists are using surveys and interviews with people in the state's agricultural sector to learn what folks need to stay…
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Hedgerows in Rice Update

February 26th, 2025
By Whitney B Brim-Deforest, Taiyu Guan, Luis A Espino, Sarah E Light, Consuelo B Baez Vega
Incorporating hedgerows in rice could provide growers with an alternative method for managing field margins without relying on pesticide applications to control the pests along the edges of rice fields.
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Medical entomologist Bruce Eldridge in 2007. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Entomology World Mourning the Loss of Bruce Eldridge

February 21st, 2025
The entomology world is mourning the loss of UC Davis Professor Emeritus Bruce Eldridge. As a medical entomologist, his exemplary military, academic and administrative career spanned more than six decades. He died Wednesday, Feb. 5 in Davis at age 91. Dr.
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It’s Seed-Starting Time!

February 21st, 2025
The beauty and order of the earth's natural rhythm bring us once again to springseedtime-- and the promise of new life embedded within each seed.
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Welcome to UCCE Sutter-Yuba

4-H Youth Development Program

The University of California 4-H Youth Development Program engages youth in reaching their fullest potential by focusing on the development of citizenship, leadership, and life skills, such as decision-making, communication, responsibility and teamwork.

Climate Smart Agriculture Program

The UC ANR Climate Smart Agriculture program provides assistance to growers to receive funding and implement carbon sequestration, water efficiency, and methane reduction projects.

Master Gardeners

Sutter-Yuba Master Gardeners are trained representatives of the University of California Cooperative Extension, assisting the gardening community by providing research based home gardening information. 

Master Food Preservers

Sutter-Yuba Master Food Preservers are trained agents of the University of California Cooperative Extension, assisting the home food preservation.  

Orchard Crops

Prunes, almonds, pears, apple, cherry, olive, plum and pomegranate

Tree Crops

Walnuts, peaches, kiwifruit, pecan, grape, nectarine, pistachio, persimmon, chestnut, apricots, fuelwood.

Field Crops

Alfalfa/Hay, Beans, Wheat, Grains, Corn, Sorghum, Barley, Sunflower, Safflower, Oil Seed (soybean, Canola), Pseudo-cereal (buckwheat, chia, quinoa, amaranth)

Rice Program

Rice, Wild Rice

Vegetable Crops

Cucurbits (squash, pumpkin, melons), Tomatoes, Sugar Beets, Vegetables, Strawberries

Nutrition Education Program

Provides nutrition curricula to qualifying schools and community organizations to encourage a healthy lifestyle and food choices.

Livestock & Natural Resources

Ranch economics and business management, drought resilience, predator-livestock coexistence and irrigated pasture management.

Living With Fire

Prevention of loss of homes during a wildfire, how to landscape and construct homes for improved safety.

 

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University of California Cooperative Extension
Sutter-Yuba Counties
 
142A Garden Highway
Yuba City, CA 95991
 
Office: (530) 822-7515
Fax: (530) 673-5368
 

 

Area Director/Academic Program Manager: 

Teghpreet Ahluwalia tkahluwalia@ucanr.edu 

 

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