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The University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) was chosen to receive CHIP's 2018 Outstanding Partner Award which was presented to the team on Thursday, February 7, 2019 at CHIP's 45th Anniversary celebration in Chico, CA.

UPCOMING MEETING EVENT: UC Davis Viticulture and Enology On the Road in Monterey County Monterey County Cooperative Extension Office 1432 Abbott Street, Salinas, CA March 8, 2019, 8:30 am-1:30 pm PCA and CCA credits have been requested. For more information or directions call (831) 759-7350.

By Laura Lukes, UC Master Gardener of Butte County, February 8, 2019 It didn't take long. Soon after the first post-Camp Fire rains, there was green in the burned area. Along lower Skyway, a blanket of soft verdure overlay the harsh scars of incineration.

Postdoctoral scientist Antoine Brieux of the Joanna Chiu lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is gearing up for a seminar next week on his research on the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, involving photoperiodic time measurement (PPTM).

Farmers and ranchers are typically the first to feel droughts, a condition that seems to be impacting California on an increasing basis, reported Dustin Klemann on KSBY News on California's Central Coast.

From cavies to chili to chocoflan... Thirteen-year-old Celeste Harrison, a fourth-year member of the Sherwood Forest 4-H Club, Vallejo, shares her expertise about chili and cavies (guinea pigs), but she's also a pro in the kitchen and at making a dessert called Chocoflan. It's part cake, part flan.

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February is Pesticide Safety Education Month The second annual National Pesticide Safety Education Month gets underway February 1st, to 1) reinforce core principles of safe handling and use and 2) to raise awareness/support land-grant university Pesticide Safety Education Programs (PSEPs).

A $4.6 million grant to UC Merced and UC Irvine will help UC Agriculture and Natural Resources researchers develop new tools and methods for California land owners to better manage the state's forests, shrub lands and grasslands.

The 2019 Ventura County 4-H Food Faire was held on Saturday, February 2nd at Will Rogers Elementary School in Ventura. Nineteen members participated from three clubs: Conejo-Simi, Loma Vista, and Somis. There were three food categories to enter: main dish, appetizer, and dessert.