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    Recipes from the Garden: A Taste of the Season

    Nothing beats the winter blues better than a steaming bowl of soup. Soup can warm your body up from the inside out while chasing a dreary winter day away. Soups are so versatile, whether as a lunchtime meal, a first course, an appetizer for a winter...

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    Winter Landscape Chores: A Seasonal Guide

    Winter, a season often associated with tranquility and hibernation, presents challenges for gardeners and landscape enthusiasts. While the garden may appear dormant, much must be done to ensure its health and vitality. By performing essential winter...

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    Transforming Your Landscape: Part 3

             As cooler weather finally arrives, bringing a refreshing break from our valley's scorching summer, it's a welcome shift for both us and our gardens. If you've been following my series on transforming my front...

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    Horticultural Terms: Autochory Seed Dispersal

    In the last few blogs I have highlighted two different methods of seed dispersal: myremochory (via ants and eliasome) and epizoochory (via animals). Remember, the sole purpose of a plant and its seeds is to reproduce! Since I like to read the...

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    Help Desk—Planning a Pollinator Garden

    Question: I want to plan a pollinator garden and was wondering what I need to do? Planting a pollinator garden is a good thing to do because pollinators have been in a decline for several decades. No insects will result in no food. About three-fourths...

 

 


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  • Mitzy Porras, assistant professor of global change ecology in the Department of Biology,  San Francisco State University (SFSU) will discuss
    SFSU Faculty Member: Learn How Global Change Ecology Is Affecting Species

    It's a timely and important topic.  It deals with global change ecology, which, basically, is the study of how ecosystems react to global environmental changes. Mitzy Porras, assistant professor of global change ecology in the Department of...


    By Kathy Keatley Garvey
    Author - Communications specialist
  • Award recipients include (top row) Professor Jason Bond and doctoral candidate Mia Lippey and (bottom row) Professor Douglas Walsh of Washington State University, a UC Davis doctoral alumnus; and UC Davis undergraduate student Kaitai Liu.
    Congrats to the PBESA Award Winners!

    Congratulations to all the newly announced recipients of awards from the Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America (PBESA)!  Honors well deserved! Capsule information on our four UC Davis-affiliated award...


    By Kathy Keatley Garvey
    Author - Communications specialist
  • A spinach field under linear move sprinkler irrigation in the low desert of Imperial County. Photo by Ali Montazar
    Workshop highlights advances in desert irrigation, tech on Feb. 27

    The latest in irrigation research and technology will be showcased at the Advances in Irrigation Tools and Technologies Workshop in Holtville on Feb. 27. “This workshop brings together University of California scientists, irrigation and water...


    By Pamela S Kan-Rice
    Author - Assistant Director, News and Information Outreach
  • UC Davis distinguished professor emerita Diane Ullman (left) and Gale Okumura, lecturer emerita, Department of Design, stand in front of their project,
    Of Raptors and Insects

    When you visit the California Raptor Center (part of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine), during the 14th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on Saturday, Feb. 8, be sure to see "A Bird's Eye View," a ceramic-mosaic mural that...


    By Kathy Keatley Garvey
    Author - Communications specialist