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Avocado Irrigation
April 16 (1 -3 PM)
 

Water Knowledge is
Power Knowledge

In-Person and Zoom
 
Topics and Speakers
 
Sources of ET information and their Reliability
By Ali Montazar - UCCE Irrigation Advisor, Imperial/San Diego/ Riverside counties
 
 
Selecting Irrigation Emitters-Drip vs Microsprinkler
Stu Styles - Cal Poly SLO Irrigation Training and Education Center
 
We would love to meet you in person at
The San Diego County Farm Bureau (420 S Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025)
 

If you cannot attend the meeting, register through our Zoom link.
 
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Healthy Soils Grant Program

January 31st, 2020
By Ben A Faber
Healthy Soils Workshop February 19, 9am 11am University of California Cooperative Extension Office 669 County Square Drive Suite 100 Ventura, CA 93003 CDFA's Healthy Soils Program is opening and will be accepting applications on a rolling basis.
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Weed ID in Your Hands

January 30th, 2020
By Ben A Faber
Who says you can't know all those wild things growing in the field you didn't put there? Here's a chance to learn what they are for cheap. UC Publications is having a book sale and they are a deal until February 14.
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Healthy Soil Symposium

January 27th, 2020
By Ben A Faber
Come and hear some new ideas to improve soils in Ventura County. Register Here: https://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=29019 For more information: ceventura.ucanr.
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Effect of Fire and Smoke on Garden Veg and Eggs

January 27th, 2020
By Ben A Faber
What are the effects of fire and smoke and ash and heat and all the other potential things that might affect plants and animal products that we eat?????? Can you simply wash off contaminants? What impact on the soil, itself? Does anything special need to be done to start producing food again?
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Mosquitoes as Pollinators?

January 27th, 2020
By Ben A Faber
There is a purpose Without their keen sense of smell, mosquitoes wouldn't get very far. They rely on this sense to find a host to bite and spots to lay eggs. And without that sense of smell, mosquitoes could not locate their dominant source of food: nectar from flowers.
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