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Deadline to apply is approaching- only a few more weeks to apply! Don't miss out! If you love to garden and would enjoy sharing your knowledge with the public the Master Gardener program is for you! UC Master Gardener Program of Fresno and Madera County are currently taking applications for new mast...

Richard Smith1, Eric Brennan2 and Patricia Love1 1. University of California Cooperative Extension, Monterey County. 2. USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Salinas.

Hi all,I am excited to announce a half-day symposium on integrated Livestock-Cropping Systems at Hopland Research and Extension Center, on September 2, 2022.

Have you ever seen a green-legged praying mantis on a green leaf? Praying mantis expert Lohitashwa "Lohit" Garikipati, identified this species as a subadult male, Stagmomantis limbata, perched in a patch of African blue basil in our family's pollinator garden.

Master Gardeners Dece Morgan and Kay Havens will tell you how to pick your Low Water Plant Palettes for Orange County gardens which include coastal (for small and medium-sized home gardens), desert, and inland hills and valleys.

We recently had a grower meeting covering the release of five new grape varieties that are resistant to Pierce's Disease https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=53564 PD is a very debilitating disease of European wine grapes, like "dead vines" debilitating. https://ucanr.

When you mention sugar plums, the first thing that pops into most people's minds is Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker, or the poem Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Moore and the line While visions of sugar plums danced in their heads.

The Almond Board of California (ABC) just announced that registration is now underway for its 50th annual Almond Conference, set Dec. 6-8 at the SAFE Credit Union Convention Center in downtown Sacramento. It's a gathering of folks from both the almond and bee industries and beyond.

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UC Davis and UC Cooperative Extension will host the UC Dry Bean Field Day on Thursday, September 1, 2022 from 9:00am to 11:00am. The field day will begin at the Campbell Tract on the UC Davis campus, which is a different location from where it has been in recent years.