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UC Master Gardener Program News:
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May Garden Tips – Getting Ready for Summer!
May is here, and the summer heat is just around the corner. There is so much happening in our gardens this month. Here is a list of things to do in May. Plant Vegetables: Plant warm-season vegetables and consider succession planting every...
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Gardeners With Heart: Fostering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Watch video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/4W_CYgEmNF8 As we bring National Volunteer Month to a close, we are honored to highlight a group of outstanding UC Master Gardener volunteers who have been nominated for their work in promoting...
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Gardeners with Heart: Sustainable Landscape Stewards
Watch the video on YouTube here As we continue our celebrations of National Volunteer Month, we're excited to spotlight a remarkable group of UC Master Gardeners dedicated to nurturing vibrant habitat gardens, promoting biodiversity, and...
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Gardeners With Heart: Volunteers Making a Difference in Community Outreach
Watch the video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/K66uOuYtLkQ We are halfway through our celebration of National Volunteer Month and are delighted to highlight UC Master Gardeners who have demonstrated extraordinary dedication to...
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Gardeners With Heart: Bridging Communities Through Connection
Watch the video on YouTube here. As we enter the second week of National Volunteer Month, we are honored to recognize a remarkable group of UC Master Gardener volunteers nominated for their exceptional work as Community Connection Leaders....
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Gardeners With Heart: Growing Food and Communities
Watch the video on YouTube here. In celebration of National Volunteer Month, we are thrilled to spotlight a remarkable group of UC Master Gardener volunteers nominated for their outstanding contributions to food gardening and food...
Pests in the Urban Landscape:
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Summer IPM Webinars
Need some summer plans? Join UC IPM at 12:00pm on the third Thursday of every month to learn about pest identification, prevention, and management around the home, garden, and landscape! These free IPM webinars are open to the general public so...
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May Pest Prevention Tips
May is here and with all the fluctuations in our weather lately, there is a lot going on in the landscape! Follow these general tips for the month of May to prevent pests. To see more tips specific to your region, visit the Seasonal Landscape IPM...
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Is the Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle Bad?
The multicolored Asian lady beetle, Harmonia axyridis, has a bad reputation. There is a common myth online that this lady beetle (ladybug) is invasive and aggressive, which can sometimes lead to people killing these beetles. While this species of lady...
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Grubs in your garden?
While preparing your garden for planting this spring, you may have found white grubs in the soil. Discovering these fairly large, white grubs can be alarming, but they usually won't cause significant plant damage. Grubs are the soil-dwelling...
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April Pest Prevention Tips
Spring is here and if you are like us, you can't wait to get outside and see how your plants and garden are doing! As usual, UC IPM has useful tips for the month of April to prevent pests in the garden and landscape. To see more tips specific to your...
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Easter Egg Hunt Answers!
Below are answers to UC IPM's 2024 insect Easter egg hunt! Click on the name of each insect to learn more. A. Brown marmorated stink bug These eggs belong to the brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) a pest of many types of plants and occasional...
Green News From UC Agriculture & Natural Resources:
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Webinars explore role of trees in climate change resilience, May 14-16
A free webinar series titled “Trees to the Rescue: Solutions for Climate Change” will be held on May 14-16, from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. each day. The webinars are sponsored by the University of California Thelma Hansen Fund. “The...
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Connecting California’s forest landowners with California Tree School
While trees and forests are often emblematic of constancy in a fast-paced world, our state's forests are actually changing before our eyes. Since 2020, the UC ANR Forest Stewardship Education (FSE) program has been helping California's forest...
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New UC California Naturalists inspire care for nature in San Diego County
Nearly 200 residents trained in past seven years by program, a part of UC Environmental Stewards On one of her darkest days, Tammah Watts stood in front of her kitchen sink to fill a pitcher of water. Outside of her window, the San...
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Exploring the why, what and hope in LandBack
The Berkeley City Council recently agreed to purchase a two-acre site (currently used for parking) known as the shellmound and a place of sacred ceremonies and turn over it over to the Sogorea Te' Land Trust, which is planning to...
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Water risks to agriculture: Too little and too much
Water is among the most precious resources on the planet. Some areas don't get enough; some get too much. And climate change is driving both of those circumstances to ever-growing extremes. Two UC Merced experts in civil and environmental engineering...
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Car fumes, weeds pose double-whammy for fire-loving native plants
Wildflower displays threatened Northwest of Los Angeles, springtime brings native wildflowers to bloom in the Santa Monica Mountains. These beauties provide food for insects, maintain healthy soil and filter water seeping into the ground – in...