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Your outdoor garden plants may not need a lot of attention on these cold winter days, but have you taken a close look at your indoor plants recently? A house plant with brown leaf tips, wilted leaves, lower leaves that are dropping and little or no new growth may be in trouble.

by Rainer Hoenicke Notes on Biochar and Its Role in Soil Health If you could continually turn a lot of organic material into biochar, you could, over time, reverse the history of the last two hundred yearsWe can, literally, start sucking some of the carbon that our predecessors have poured into the...

Are you looking for a showy, drought tolerant plant that blooms profusely and attracts hummingbirds and other pollinators? You might like to try Aloes! They range in size from six-inch houseplants to tall trees. In the past, people mostly grew small aloes indoors for their medicinal properties.

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Western Water Systems: Update Join us for a free webinar offering an update on Western Water Systems Date: Wednesday February 3, 2021 Time: 1:00P Eastern/12:00 Central/11:00 Mountain/10:00 Pacific Kristiana Hansen - Economic Impacts from Water Reductions in Agriculture: Examples from the Colorado R...

Invasive shot hole borers (ISHB) are tiny beetles that are posing a significant threat in Ventura County and beyond. There's new information provided in a recent blog post that appeared on website of the Channel Islands Chapter of the Community Association Institute in January 2021.

Conservation and plant-pollinator biologist Shalene Jha of the Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, will speak on "Plant-Insect Interactions and Ecosystem Services in the Context of Global Change" at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar on Wednesday...

By Susanne von Rosenberg, UC Master Gardener of Napa County Recently, as our winters seem to have become drier (and the rains certainly come later than they used to), I've been exploring the topic of drought-tolerant edibles. This naturally led me to learning about native edible plants.

The UC President's Advisory Commission met Dec. 14 via Zoom as coronavirus precautions continued to discourage travel. It's the beginning of a new phase, said President Drake, announcing that the first coronavirus vaccines would be arriving at UC medical centers the next day.

Unify-Communicate-Advocate The Strategic Initiatives offer a home for strategic thought - drawing on members of the wider UC ANR community and beyond to identify and address issues of current and emerging importance. 1.