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Sherman Library and Gardens has been here since 1955 and Scott has continued with the botanical, educational, historical, and cultural institutions public gardens are intended to enhance. Learn more and listen to "In The Garden" radio show podcasts.

Seen any monarchs lately? A beautiful male glided into our Vacaville garden late yesterday and made himself at home on our Mexican sunflowers, Tithonia rotundifola. He claimed the patch--"mine, all mine, all mine!"--until a honey bee buzzed by looking for nectar.

This year's Electronic Records Day event The Great Digital Transformation What's in it for You? is a Zoom forum hosted by the UC Records Management Committee. The hour-long webinar will take place Nov. 1 at 10:01 a.m. Speakers will include experts in UC archives, records management and privacy.

With full containment of the Mosquito Fire last weekend, residents of Placer and El Dorado Counties have largely returned home and are beginning the difficult process of recovery.

Orchard and Vineyard Field Day Requested DPR 1.0 (O), CDFA-INMT CE 1.0, CCA CEU 2.

Franz Reinhart Kegel, UC Cooperative Extension farm advisor emeritus, of Stockton, passed away peacefully on Oct. 2. He was 94. Kegel was born June 21, 1928, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to Friedrich and Margarete Kegel, German citizens who were living in the U.S. and teaching at Lehigh University.

Petrichor is that Earthly smell released by the first rain after a dry spell, a term coined in 1960s by two Australian scientists, Isabel Joy Bear and Richard Thomas. They coined the term from the ancient Greek words for blood of stones.

Ah, the bounty of late summer! At the time of this writing, the beds at Our Garden are bursting with produce: tomatoes of all shapes and colors, cucumbers, eggplants, and those irrepressible zucchinis that somehow either manage to hide until they are yule log size or else spring to that size overnig...

Blue sky, warm temps (but not TOO warm), no wind: a perfect day for a UC Master Gardener Ask A Master Gardener booth in San Ramon! As you may know, Dougherty Station is a brand new market. It opened in May 2022.

A garden is certainly about plants, but its so much more. A garden is creativity, beauty, sanctuary, community and unique. Having had the pleasure of touring our many community gardens and urban farms this past year, one thing stands out.