OBJECTIVE: Create the most fire-resistant zone in the area immediately surrounding your home to avoid home ignition from blowing embers. Greatest hazard: plants against combustible siding and under or ...

Serving Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz counties, we share research-based gardening knowledge with our local communities. Explore upcoming classes, practical resources, and seasonal tips to help ...

This hands-on learning opportunity (March 30 to April 3) features UC experts. It is for a broad audience, including growers, crop consultants and irrigation practitioners. It means different things to ...

Join UC Master Gardener volunteers from across California for the 2026 UC Master Gardener Conference, a virtual statewide gathering designed to help volunteers learn, connect and grow. Over three days ...

UC Cooperative Extension Marin County sustains a vital agriculture, environment, and community by providing University of California research-based information across key areas including natural ...

Join the Master Gardeners of Ventura County to learn about beneficial insects and how to attract them to your garden. Did you know that California has 1,600 types of native bees? Learn this and more.

Earlier this fall, the New World screwworm – the flesh-burrowing larva of a blowfly (Cochliomyia hominivorax) – was detected in cattle in Mexico just 70 miles from the U.S. border. Most recently, in ...

This last year of unpredictable weather of up and down temps, hot and cold, some rain and dry weather, did not bode well for this gardener and maybe not for others. In my neck of the woods of the San ...

UC Cooperative Extension County Master Gardeners (Solano & Yolo) are currently renovating the 900 square foot Willis Linn Jepson Native Plant Garden at the Peña Adobe in Vacaville. We have been ...

Serving slices of watermelon on the Fourth of July is a long-standing tradition at some facilities within the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. But this July, there was ...

A new study explored parent perceptions of stigma and benefits associated with free and reduced-price school meals and universal free school meals. The United States Department of Agriculture’s school ...

UC Cooperative Extension advisors are on the front line and get the most interesting questions from our community. Someone brought some wasps into our office, and was worried they were invading her ...