UC Master Gardeners - Sutter Yuba

Office Closure

Office is temporarily closed

But we are still working for you, remotely!

Any questions please contact the office at email sutteryuba@ucanr.edu.

COVID-19 UPDATE

THE FOLLOWING IS THE LATEST UPDATE FROM COUNTY DIRECTOR WHITNEY BRIM-DEFOREST CONCERNING COVID 19, MEETINGS AND OFFICE CLOSURES:

Meetings/Events/Gatherings

Following UC-wide protocols, all UC ANR-hosted meetings, events and gatherings of any size that are scheduled to take place must be conducted via Zoom, postponed or cancelled.

This includes all in-person programming, meetings and gatherings - whether led by UC ANR employees or volunteers (e.g., 4-H club or project meetings, Master Gardener workshops, Master Food Preserver classes, and Nutrition Education programs, etc.).

The UCCE Master Gardeners of Sutter-Yuba Counties welcome you!

Who are we?

UCCE Master Gardeners are trained representatives of the University of California Cooperative Extension, assisting the gardening community of Sutter and Yuba Counties by providing research-based home gardening information.*

*To learn more, visit the statewide UC Master Gardener Program and the California Garden Web.

Ask us! We are here to help if you have gardening questions, want to have us identify a plant or animal for you, or just want to know more about us. Download here to learn how to submit samples for identification.

UC ANR Blogs

What You Need to Know About That Invasive Giant Hornet

It's good to see Washington State University Extension's newly published, updated fact sheet on the Asian giant hornet, Vespa mandarinia. You can view or download it here for free. Remember the massive media frenzy earlier this year when "the murder hornet" became a household word? The...

By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Author - Communications specialist
A Monarch Paradise in July

Monarchs, bless their little hearts, souls and wings, deposited 16 eggs on our milkweed plants in July. Being quite obliging and considerate, we like to give the monarchs, Danaus plexippus, in our Vacaville pollinator garden a choice: tropical milkweed, Asclepias...

By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Author - Communications specialist