Roosevelt READY After School Program joined UCCE to participate in a Chopped Junior cook off! Students had the opportunity to use their creativity using healthy foods to create bugs, animals, things that grow, and not so sweet treats.
After spending several weeks learning about food from UC curriculum Healthalicious Cooking the Ready after school students paired up with family members in the 1st annual salsa contests at Jefferson Charter Academy and Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary Schools.
Penny Pawl, U. C. Master Gardener of Napa County Worms are not native to North America. About 20,000 years ago, our continent experienced an Ice Age, along with Europe and Asia. The phenomenon decimated the worm population, with the only survivors in parts of Turkey and the Mediterranean.
With the majority of fall-planted California small grain crops reaching grain ripening stages and annual precipitation mostly finished, let's review 2017-18 seasonal weather patterns across the small grain regions of the state and at the UC small grain testing sites.
UCCE Tulare/ King's County attended the 2018 UC ANR Statewide Conference in Ontario, California. We had the opportunity to unite with our ANR colleagues from around the state to network and share our work.
By T. Eric Nightingale, U.C Master Gardener of Napa County There is nothing quite like walking through, or relaxing near, one's own garden. Gazing upon the plants that have thrived and bloomed, the result of hard work and tender care, is a singular experience.
Susan Lafferty and I attended this workshop for school and community gardens. This was a great hands on workshop to learn how to assess or plan a garden site. We learned about soil types, how to plot out your garden to harvest vegetables at a certain time and square foot gardening techniques.
General situation It has been an up and down start to the year for thrips development. Through February the relatively dry winter, and somewhat warm start to the year in the San Joaquin Valley meant we were running ahead of the 30 year average for degree day accumulation.
In the job listing for my position, weed identification and management were never explicitly mentioned. Natural resource efforts in the listing only mentioned water, forage, soils and the wide array of issues relating to rangeland ecosystem services.
Norman Knows... Western Drywood Termites Probably the biggest termite pest in this area is the Western Drywood Termite. No doubt, many of us have seen the homes and buildings covered with large tarps, or perhaps had your own home covered for fumigation.
