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Nutrition Policy Institute's Danielle Lee and Dania Orta-Aleman will present with Pepperdine University's Loan Kim at the 2025 National WIC Association's National Policy Virtual Conference.

On January 1 of this year a new law went into effect in California, greatly limiting the use of a pesticide class known as neonicotinoids. Originally developed in the 1980's, these pesticides became the most widely used class of insecticides in the world.

Roses have been around quite a while, first debuting in fossil records dating back 60-70 million years. Even Confucius loved and wrote about roses. Of more historical inerest, Alexander the Great is credited with introducing cultivated roses to the rest of Europe.

Maps created with the new PowerPoint template from IGIS Have you ever wanted to include a map of the ANR network in your PowerPoint presentation or proposal, but just couldn't find the right one? Or maybe you have some map clipart that is pretty close, but want to tweak the colors or labels.

Landscapes serve many purposes, including wildlife habitat, pollinator support, and aesthetics. Incorporating a variety of edible plants adds even more value.

by Penny Pawl, UC Master Gardener of Napa County Last year at holiday time I was given a most unusual gift: an amaryllis bulb encased in wax. I had no idea such a thing existed, so I immediately looked online for how to care for it.

Someone once said that "red doesn't tiptoe into a room; it kicks down the door." Red is bold, fiery, and confident. It's also a warning: think stop signs, traffic lights and fire engines. Don't blow through a stop signs or red traffic light, and please pull over when you hear a siren.

I grew up around roses. My mother had a rather large rose garden, which was her happy place, where she spent many hours tending to her beloved roses.

Dear Colleagues, It's with deep sadness that I share that we lost our colleague Steven Swain, environmental horticulture advisor for Marin and Sonoma counties, on Feb. 8. He was 58. Steven was with his family celebrating his wife's birthday in San Francisco when he collapsed.

Nutrition Policy Institute submitted a public comment on the Scientific Report of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, advising adoption of the report's evidence-based recommendations into the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030. This was in response to the U.S.