A farm stand piled high with fresh-picked peaches is a timeless picture of summer in California. Farmers have been selling their produce at roadside stands just about as long as there have been roads ...

Clubs listed on this section are only available to students who are enrolled in the schools listed below. When selecting a club, it is also important to choose projects that match your family’s ...

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 ...

One of the amusements a garden can provide is watching the birds, bees, butterflies and other critters drawn to it. Most of us have seen honeybees flying from flower to flower, sipping nectar or ...

If you’ve been gardening in Alameda County for a while, you’ve probably noticed “new normals”: more warm nights, more heat spikes, and winter weather that can feel less reliably cold. Those shifts ...

January to February: Thrips populations were above average compared to prior sampling years (Figure 2). March to May: Thrips populations were low, similar to prior years (Figure 2). June to November: ...

About the Event Take this class to learn how to redo your landscape with drip irrigation and water wise plants, including California native plants!

If you see someone scrutinizing the trash at your local park, it could be urban ecologist Monica Palta. Fear not, you're just witnessing science in action. “It's basically trash archeology in a way,” ...

Growing up in rural Alabama, Kimberly Sinclair Holmes – the new statewide director of California 4-H – experienced firsthand the enduring value of youth development programs in a limited-resource ...

UC Berkeley's Blodgett Forest Research Station is the home of an ongoing, 20-year study investigating the impacts of prescribed fire and resoration thinning on forest health and wildfire risk in the ...

California's urban water agencies have long relied on conservation measures to promote reliability and manage costs. Since landscapes are a large portion of water demand in California cities, many ...

Many problems that gardeners experience with tomato plants are not related to insect pests or diseases. Rather, they are associated with adverse growing conditions due to the environment or production ...