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IGIS 2019 Year-in-Review Part I. Impacts Toward UC ANR's Strategic Goals
Welcome to the final IGIS year-in-review of the decade! 2019 was another productive and satisfying...

Mounds in the Garden.
  While skimming a magazine from England called Permaculture, I found an article about...

How Do Monarchs Know When to Migrate? Bohart Museum Open House Jan. 18
How do monarch butterflies know when to migrate? Take the case of a male monarch reared, released...

Bon Appetit!
Would you be able to identify a pineapple slicer or 14 other cooking items? Well thirteen “...

It's About Time
     As one year passes and another begins, I think we all pay a little more...

Soil Health Symposium
Ventura County Research Symposium   Sustainability Through Soil Health February 27,...

Mexican Thornless Lime
“I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself.” – Sir Peter...

Cambridge Scientist to Speak on Plant-Nematode Parasitism
When you think about global food security, you may not immediately think of plant-parasitic...

IGIS 2019 Year-in-Review Part II. Impact on UC ANR's Public Value Statements
see also: IGIS 2019 Year in Review Part I. Impact on UCANR's Strategic Goals...

Have Your Heard “Build Healthy Soil” On In The Garden Radio
What has been called “the skin of the earth”? It's SOIL. This week on In the Garden...

Eat your leafy reds--One day you will be able to do this
Is that a beautiful plant or what? What it is is a new RED spinach developed and released by the...

Rats and Mice: How to Manage Using Snap Traps
Trapping is the safest and most effective method for controlling rats and mice in and around homes,...

A Grand Opening--And Bees Were Nowhere in Sight
It was a grand opening of the USDA-ARS bee research facility at the University of California,...

January Is Pruning Time!
Shape up dormant fruit trees for healthier and more productive trees. Bring your own tools for this...

Ground Squirrels, Gophers, Rats Meet at Local Symposium
29th Vertebrate Pest Conference Santa Barbara The 29th Vertebrate Pest Conference, an educational...

Weed Management in Citrus Orchards
From the TOPICS IN SUBTROPICS blog (Jan. 10, 2020)   Weed Management in Citrus...

Something Wonderful Is Happening Saturday, Jan. 18 at Bohart Museum of Entomology
Something Wonderful Is Happening Saturday, Jan. 18 at Bohart Museum of Entomology! If you're a...

Historic Occasion: USDA-ARS Bee Lab Opens on UC Davis Campus
On a day too cold for honey bees to fly and nearly too cold for bundled dignitaries to speak,...

February 4 Biodegradable Mulch Professional Development Workshop
Growing berries on the Central Coast, and in California for that matter, uses a lot of...

The Huntington Gardens Part 2: The Ranch Garden
    Every Saturday, volunteers from the Los Angeles Master Gardener program...