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Spring Vegetable Gardening - Waterford Library

Feb 27, 2024

February is the perfect time to start planning for your warm-weather vegetable garden. Not sure how to get started, or need some tips? Join the UC Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners for a class at a local Stanislaus County library near you. Free seeds to attendees.

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Growing Citrus

Jan 8, 2024

Citrus trees are the most popular fruit trees grown in California.

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Growing Culinary Herbs for Beginners

Dec 2, 2023

What herbs can you easily grow on an apartment porch or in an outdoor garden? Touch and smell some herb samples and learn a few tips on cooking with herbs.

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Leaders Dinner

Feb 9, 2024

Additional information to come. You may contact the 4-H office at 209-525-6800/uccestanislaus@ucanr.edu.

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Almond Variety Field Day

May 8, 2025

View 22 new and experimental almond varieties from UC Davis, USDA, Burchell Nursery, Spain, and Australia, growing side by side in this 3rd leaf commercial orchard of Yorizane, the new self-fertile almond variety from USDA. All but two test varieties are self-fertile. Experimental varieties are being…

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Margaret Lloyd, wearing a white, wide-brimmed hat and holding a clipboard, grabs a handful of soi from a tilled field.

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UC ANR hires experts in small farms, groundwater, forestry, soil health, youth development

July 14, 2025

By Michael Hsu, Pamela S Kan-Rice

To help farmers and other Californians address emerging issues, the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources has hired more UC Cooperative Extension experts with a wide range of skills and experience. New UC Cooperative Extension specialists, advisors, coordinators and educators around the…

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The buds shown on the walnut branches are male flowers called catkins

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UC scientists ask walnut trees: When do you need to be irrigated?

April 16, 2025

By Trina Kleist

UC scientists are working with growers in Tehama, Butte, Lake, Amador, Contra Costa, Stanislaus and Yolo counties to test a new way of measuring the irrigation needs of walnut trees. Shackel and team think this new method will allow growers to use less water by not irrigating early in the season, and trees…

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2025 National 4-H Beekeeping Essay Competition

March 18, 2025

2025 National 4-H Beekeeping Essay CompetitionSponsored by the Foundation for the Preservation of Honeybees, Inc.CA State deadline is April 14, 2025.Submit your complete essay entry by April 14, 2025 to Gemma Miner at gmminer@ucanr.edu.Theme: The Importance of Youth in Beekeeping: How 4-H members can make a…

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