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Myths of the Soil

February 7, 2020
Washington State University and UCCE Ventura County, respectively Soils found in home gardens and public landscapes usually bear little resemblance to the original soil.
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Healthy Soils Grant Webinar

February 3, 2020
By Ben A Faber
Healthy Soils Grants for Avocado Growers Webinar February 12, 9am 10am It's not really just for avocado growers, anyone can join.
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Healthy Soils Grant Program

January 31, 2020
By Ben A Faber
Healthy Soils Workshop February 19, 9am 11am University of California Cooperative Extension Office 669 County Square Drive Suite 100 Ventura, CA 93003 CDFA's Healthy Soils Program is opening and will be accepting applications on a rolling basis.
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ANR in the news Jan. 1-15, 2020

January 28, 2020
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Five of the past six years have been the warmest in Bakersfield's recorded history (Bakersfield Californian) Steven Mayer, Jan. 15 Daniel Sumner, an ag economist at UC Davis, said researchers across the state are busy studying the changing patterns of California's Mediterranean climate.
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Healthy Soil Symposium

January 27, 2020
By Ben A Faber
Come and hear some new ideas to improve soils in Ventura County. Register Here: https://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=29019 For more information: ceventura.ucanr.
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Effect of Fire and Smoke on Garden Veg and Eggs

January 27, 2020
By Ben A Faber
What are the effects of fire and smoke and ash and heat and all the other potential things that might affect plants and animal products that we eat?????? Can you simply wash off contaminants? What impact on the soil, itself? Does anything special need to be done to start producing food again?
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Ventura ACP-HLB Task Force

January 24, 2020
By Ben A Faber
The following is compiled from the January newsletter of the Ventura County ACP-HLB Task Force Results of November scouting trip are available for the Canine Detection Team A team of six dogs and three handlers from F1K9 scouted 20 citrus ranches in Ventura County between Nov. 18 and Nov. 22, 2019.
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