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Finding an Ecological Niche: Selected Foothill Woodland and Chaparral Species, Part 1 of 3: The Blue Oak By Laura Lukes, UC Master Gardener of Butte County, February 22, 2019 [Note: Blue oak (Quercus douglasii), gray pine (Pinus sabiniana), and buckeye (Aesculus californica) are three species that t...

Just sampled some strawberries in white chocolate from Japan this afternoon for lunch (picture below). What's interesting is how dehydrated the strawberries are inside, they couldn't be bigger than the tip of my pinky finger. Great texture though, the berries basically dissolve in one's mouth.

Reposted from UC Davis News Scientists at the University of California, Davis, are taking the temperature and other measurements of lakes of all sizes and shapes throughout the mountains of California to see how climate change is affecting them and what, perhaps, can be done about it.

A baby bird's gape is the huge open part of the mouth, often brightly colored, it is thought, to induce feeding from adults. Gape can also be used as a verb to describe begging behavior.

Most of you have already planted your warm season garden (and if you haven't, now is the time!). And since you want to reap the rewards of your hard work you need to keep the bad bugs from eating all those tender young shoots.

"It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble, it's the things we do know that just ain't so."--American humorist Artemus Ward (1834-1867).

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the Central Area Presentation Day on April 7th! In order to compete at this event they had to achieve a gold medal at County Presentation Day on February 3rd, and those that medaled at the area level will be eligible to enter the State Presentation Day...

The 2018 Presentation Day and Interview Contest was held on February 3rd at Waterloo School. The results are posted below, and congratulations to all of our participants! Those who received a gold award are eligible to compete at the Are Presentation on April 7th at Madera High School.

The 2018 Food Fiesta and County 4-H Cook-Off were held on January 20th at the Cabral Ag Center, and everyone enjoyed presenting and eating delicious dishes throughout the event.

So tiny and so destructive. It's about the size of a grain of rice but it's a killer. That's the walnut twig beetle, Pityophthorus juglandis, which in association with a newly described fungus, Geosmithia morbida, causes thousand cankers disease, wreaking havoc on native black walnut trees.