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Love Nature? Enjoy working with youth K-5th Grade? Have some time to spare this Spring & Fall?

It's almost spring. Once again, my plants are prey to slugs. Damp overcast yet warmer days provide the ideal environment for these slimy shell-less mollusks. Their stealth but obvious presence is unmistakable.

California agriculture saw significant gains in 2017, with the state's counties experiencing a 5.1% jump in total production value. The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) says combined sales, excluding timber, totaled $59.57 billion.

By T. Eric Nightingale, UC Master Gardener of Napa County I have recently become interested in the plant family Aizoaceae. It is a positively huge family, consisting of many sub-families. The plants under the Aizoaceae umbrella are mostly of the low-lying, groundcover type.

Annual UCCE South Sacramento Valley Prune Meeting Co-sponsored by Sutter Co Ag Commissioners Office February 21, 2019 8:00 AM 12:30 PM followed by hosted lunch --Thanks to Sunsweet Growers Inc.-- Veterans Memorial Hall, 1425 Veterans Memorial Circle, Yuba City 2.0 hours PCA CE approved (0.5 L&R; 1.

Lemons for pie, cakes, cookies, seasoning, drinks, they are all good. Now is the time to take advantage of your backyard lemons, or ask and perhaps take advantage of someone else's back yard fruit. There is an alley I walk and down that alley is a Meyer Lemon tree that is just LOADED with fruit.

On Thursday, February 7, the University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Stanislaus County Master Gardeners held their very first class. The topic was spring vegetable gardening.

Almost every time I volunteer at the Vallejo Farmers Market someone asks about removing weeds from their new to the garden. As you have undoubtedly read or heard on the news, Vallejo real estate is a relative bargain compared to almost every other town in the bay area.

By Faith Kearns Early in its development, Los Angeles bound itself tightly to the rest of California by securing a water supply piped in from locations across the state.

Postdoctoral scientist Antoine Brieux of the Joanna Chiu lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will speak on "Understanding the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Photoperiodic Time Measurement in Drosophila melanogaster" at the next departmental seminar.