The Color Me Green 5K fun run/walk aims to provide all youth and community members a learning opportunity for improving their health through a fun event. The Leaders Council selects the dates of this ...

Lady beetles (known more commonly as ladybugs) are often sold in nurseries and garden centers to control aphids. But will releasing them actually solve your pest problem, and if so, how can you ...

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

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 ...

I recently learned that my favorite flowers are linked to my Greek heritage and Greek mythology [1]. Unbeknown to me, my favorite flowers and the ones I grow in my garden are daffodils, lilies, ...

Some citrus fruits are grown not to be consumed fresh like an orange, but for use in cooking. One such citrus is the sudachi (Citrus ichangensis X.C. reticulata var. austere), a very tart sour citrus.

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,” ...

UC Davis Weed Day 2024 gave participants a chance to see, feel and even smell different methods of managing weeds common in California orchards, fields, yards and landscapes. Here, the brown strips ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...