Sacramento

While visiting family in Fredericksburg, Virginia, one chilly February, they took me to Chatham Manor, where they had raved about the gardens. Because it was February, there wasn't much to see but the structure of the dormant garden.

This week I am up on the 46th parallel. It seems much further from Sacramento (38 N) than the coordinates suggest. The snow is gone as is the lake ice. Some damage that resulted from a hard winter has been left behind.

In English La primavera ya est aqu y a menudo es la estacin del ao ms ocupada en la que los jardineros plantan frutas y verduras con el sueo de cosechar tomates maduros y jugosas fresas. Pero, qu pasa con los que no son jardineros, t sabes, la gente que batalla para mantener un cactus vivo.

Spring is here, and oftentimes the busiest season of the year for gardeners to plant edibles with dreams of ripe tomatoes and rows of juicy strawberries.

Doctoral student Maureen Page of the Neal Williams lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is the recipient of a prestigious three-year fellowship, a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, for her research proposal, Promoting Food Security by Optimizing Wildflow...

Multi-species grazing - grazing cattle, sheep, goats, or even poultry or pigs in the same pastures - is often cited in the popular small farm press as a beneficial practice. Each of these livestock species has different forage preferences and grazing behaviors.

Ecologist Patrick Grof-Tisza, a postdoctoral fellow affiliated with the Richard "Rick" Karban lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, has received the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by the European Commission.

Did you celebrate National Public Gardens Day today (Friday, May 11)? Yes? It's always held the Friday before Mother's Day to promote awareness of North America's public gardens. The non-profit American Public Gardens Association of Pennsylvania established the observance in 2009.

With warming weather come contemplations of bagrada bug. This is the time in the past when we start to find bagrada bug populations on flourishing shortpod mustard plants or patches of pepperweed in the Salinas Valley.

Jennifer Sowerwine helps restore culturally relevant food systems to immigrant and Native American populations The Karuk Tribe once lived on more than a million acres in remote Northern California.