From forest inventory to planning a prescribed burn, UC ANR’s California Tree School is a chance to explore foundational forestry concepts in a community space. Registration for CA Tree School 2025 is ...

Holiday gatherings: As you gather with loved ones, please be mindful of your health and the health of those around you. If you begin experiencing symptoms after any gatherings, take the necessary ...

Bird flu has killed millions of birds and disrupted milk and poultry production. In California, highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 has been detected in commercial and backyard flocks of poultry ...

What to do with all that jam and jelly that you made throughout the year. If you're like me you have made a lot, given away a lot and realized that you cannot eat what you have left before fruit will ...

En el condado de San Diego existen más de cinco mil pequeñas granjas, pero, de acuerdo con el Censo Agrícola del 2022, menos del 2 por ciento son operadas o pertenecen a una persona negra, indígena o ...

Farmers placed clumps of soil into metal mesh baskets, submerged the baskets into jars of water, then watched to see if their soil held together. The slake test, conducted at the Soil Health Field Day ...

A while back, I wrote a blog on the fun notion of converting one of my raised-bed veggie gardens into a pollinator-friendly flower garden. I imagined this would bring a splash of color to the yard for ...

It was good to see Sonoma County's "Queen Bee," Ettamarie Peterson of Petaluma, bee honored on the cover of the December edition of Bee Culture magazine. She often submits articles for the magazine. I ...

Tucked into one corner of the beautifully renovated Chapman Park is a small space destined to have a large impact: the Chapman Park Community Garden. Chapman Park sits on three acres adjacent to the ...

Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants was first published in 2007 and set off an enthusiasm for native plant gardening. This practice is now known as “rewilding” in ...