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Helen Cope Underhill, former UC Cooperative Extension home advisor, passed away Jan. 2, 2024, at age 99. After attending Cooperative Extension home demonstration club meetings with her mother when she was a young girl in Alabama, Underhill decided she wanted to become a home demonstration agent.

Jeane Greenawalt Johnson, former 4-H home advisor in Ventura County, died Feb. 2 in Los Gatos. She was 97. Johnson graduated from Kansas State University with a bachelor's degree in home economics in 1947 and later a bachelor's degree in education from San Jose State University.

The rain in February flooded the areas around the garden beds in the Edible Demo Garden. Volunteers were busy digging trenches to redirect the water away from the planted areas and salvaging any crops that were still productive.

Most of us in urban and suburban areas don't have enough room for a large edible garden. Our space is limited for growing vegetables, so we need to try different techniques to maximize our yields.

When she was younger, Tamekia Wilkins believed that becoming a movie star was her calling. Then reality sank in, and I knew that wasn't going to happen, said Wilkins, an evaluation coordinator based at UC Agriculture and Natural Resources headquarters in Davis.

(Note: The main UC Davis Department of Entomology news page is at https://entomology.ucdavis.edu.) UC Davis Distinguished Professor Walter Leal: Third Academic Senate Award The saying, Good things come in threes, or Omne trium perfectum, rings true.

I enjoy wandering Napa's neighborhoods, admiring the front yards, and noting the changes in landscape gardening styles. There has been quite a metamorphosis over the decades. Many people have moved from lush English-style landscaping to water-wise gardening.

Congratulations to molecular geneticist-physiologist Joanna Chiu, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology! She's the recipient of the highly competitive "Distinction in Student Mentoring' Award from the Pacific Branch, Entomology Society of America (PBESA).

UC Cooperative Extension is offering workshops in Ventura, Salinas and Tulare to help growers adapt their fruit, nut and vegetable production practices to variable climate conditions.

Part one of Planting Peppers from Seed covered planting your pepper seeds and caring for them. After several weeks the seedlings should be outgrowing the trays they were started in.