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Earth's carbon cycle transfers carbon between land, oceans, and the atmosphere, and in turn, facilitates the life cycle of all life forms globally. Fire is a part of Earth's terrestrial carbon cycle that is balanced by vegetation recovery and growth.

Is your freezer full of your summer fruit bounty? Are you wondering how to use some of that stashed produce? My freezer was experiencing an overload of plums. The last couple of summers, my Santa Rosa plum tree has provided a large crop each season.

In Our Garden, What Can Go Up Must Go Up by Jane Berger As spent vining plants sighed back on the soil in Mid-October and I began to take down drying Kabocha vines, I remember thinking about the opportunities we took to maximize our growing areas on a small property.

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by Penny Pawl, UC Master Gardener of Napa County I remember when my parents would go for a drive and the front of the car would be covered with dead bugs that had been hovering in the road. That doesn't happen any longer. The dense populations of bugs have disappeared.

When you're drinking your daily cup of Joe to power your day, do you ever think about coffee plantation pests, such as the coffee borer beetle, aka coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei? Agroecologist Estel Jimnez-Soto, a postdoctoral scholar/lecturer at UC Santa Cruz, does.

Agroecologist Estel Jimnez-Soto, a postdoctoral scholar/lecturer at UC Santa Cruz, will speak on "A Complex Cup of Joe: Biodiversity, Pest Control and Political Ecologies in Mexican Coffee Agroforests" at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology virtual seminar at 4:10 p.m.

What does it mean to build a just and sustainable Agroecological City? Over this past year, the pandemic, climate disruptions and ongoing harm caused by racial violence have challenged our urban communities and food systems in unprecedented ways.

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Years ago, long before I became a UCCE Master Gardener, I planted an herbal tea garden in a west-facing sunny area of my backyard. I haven't used most of the herbs so much for the purpose of making tisanes or cups of tea, but I have really enjoyed the scent while working in that area.