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Mimi taking soil samples after 2017 fires
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Post Fire Food Safety Research

March 18, 2019
Produce Safety After Urban Wildfire citizen science project The Northern California fires of October 2017 created poor air quality and distributed toxic air contaminants over the region.
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Potato aphid adults and nymphs. Photo Jack Kelly Clark, UC IPM.
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ID that pest in your vineyard, orchard, garden

March 5, 2019
By Lucia G Varela
Want to know what bug is making holes in the leaves of you shrub or eating your fruit? Or what is the pesky weed you cannot get rid off? The University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources publications have four sets of Pest Identification cards for you.
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Heirloom Tomatoes
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Heirloom Tomatoes

March 4, 2019
Advice for the Home Gardener from the Help Desk of the UC Master Gardener Program of Contra Costa County Client's Request: I'm confused about the lengthy lists of Tomatoes and which can be grown in my area (micro-climate).
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Americorps NCCC Gold Seven Team Experience Hopland REC

February 20, 2019
By Hannah M Bird
The wonderful NCCC Gold Seven team have been working at HREC for the past 3 weeks, they have been so helpful - all the HREC staff will be so very sad to see them go! In this blog post we learn a little about the team members and get an overview of the work that they have been involved in, the interv...
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Is Your Home Safe Fire Safe?

February 19, 2019
Sometime back between the Napa-Sonoma fire and the recent fire which destroyed the town of Paradise in Butte County, I had an opportunity to attend a seminar, presented both by Fire Safe Sonoma and the Master Gardeners of Sonoma County, on protecting our homes against wildfires.
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Rosemary
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Help Identify this Plant... It's a Rosemary

February 18, 2019
Advice for the Home Gardener from the Help Desk of the UC Master Gardener Program of Contra Costa County Client's Request: Would you please help me to identify a plant which is a bush when fully grown, and blooms in small light-blue color flowers in fall and winter.
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A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, nectaring on a spiked floral purple plant, Salvia indigo spires (Salvia farinacea x S. farinacea). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Bee My Valentine!

February 14, 2019
Remember receiving valentine cards that read "Bee My Valentine?" Well, every day can be Valentine's Day when there are bees in your garden.
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