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Quaker Oaks cover crop ready for mowing
UC Cooperative Extension, Ventura County: Article

Spotlight on Healthy Soils: Quaker Oaks Farm

May 30, 2019
Thanks to special guest author Shulamit Shroder for a glance at a Healthy Soils Program grant in action. Shulamit is Kern County's UCCE climate smart agriculture specialist. Quaker Oaks Farm is a small nonprofit farm in Tulare County, near Visalia.
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The Biochar Blog: Article

NRCS Webinar on biochar

May 25, 2019
By Milton E Mcgiffen
This should be interesting. Many have wanted NRCS to makebiochar more prominent in their recommendations on soil health, etc. On June 12 they will be doing a webinar For more info and to sign up: http://www.conservationwebinars.
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Forest entomologists Steve Seybold (right) and Jackson Audley stand by a 150-year-old black walnut tree on the 100 block of E Street. It is dying of thousand cankers disease. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A Sign of the Times: Why This Black Walnut Tree Is Dying

May 24, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If you've ever walked into the courtyard on the 100 block of E Street in downtown Davis, Calif., you've probably noticed the massive black walnut tree near Sophia's Thai Bar and Kitchen. It's about 150 years old, 50 feet in height, and measures about five feet in diameter. And it's dying.
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From Soil to Science: Article

4-H Environmental Science Institute

May 23, 2019
By Steven Worker
On April 13, 2019, 28 4-H members and volunteers from Sonoma, Marin, Napa and Alameda counties convened with Cooperative Extension staff at the Las Posadas 4-H Camp for the 2019 4-H Environmental Science Institute.
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An immature lady beetle (larvae) chowing down on an oleander aphid. This photo was taken on a milkweed plant in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Hey, I'm Eating as Fast as I Can!

May 22, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Have you ever seen the larva of a lady beetle (aka ladybug) dining on an aphid? Lights! Camera! Action! So here is this charming little immature lady beetle chowing down on an oleander aphid that has the audacity to infest the milkweed in our pollinator garden.
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SFREC fire (2)
Ranching in the Sierra Foothills: Article

Fire Season 2019: Start Preparing Now!

May 22, 2019
By Daniel K Macon
For many of us in Northern California, the 2017 and 2018 wildfire seasons are still very fresh in our minds. The late-season fires in Sonoma County in 2017, and the Camp Fire in Butte County in 2018, were among the most destructive deadliest fires in California's history.
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