Brent Hales is Associate Vice President of UC ANR. He is responsible for guiding all ANR academic programs at the statewide level and is chair of the ANR Program Council. Hales also serves as the ...

Monterey County is recognized as the Salad Bowl of the World. Its temperate climate, rich soils, and unparalleled infrastructure make this the ideal growing area for cool season vegetables, wine ...

We found these extreme events, such as California's atmospheric rivers, are going to move nitrate more quickly.” In this study, different methods were used to measure how much nitrate, a component of ...

Trees grow and die with or without or management but the number of trees on every acre and the ratio of live versus dead trees can be influenced by our actions. Keeping a healthy forest in line with ...

Plant enough of each vegetable crop to meet your family’s needs for fresh, stored, and preserved supplies. For most vegetables, there are a number of varieties (cultivars) from which to choose. When ...

The key to any successful garden is planning. Gardeners cannot waste time and space if they expect to produce large amounts of vegetables from a limited area. Gardeners should pay close attention to ...

Growing your own transplants indoors can extend your gardening season by several weeks, reduce your gardening costs, and allow you to grow transplants of some of the hard-to-find varieties of crops.

California has a unique vegetable growing climate, we can grow many different types of vegetable crops throughout the year. Crops are classified as warm-season or cool-season crops. Vegetable planting ...

We had this innocent-looking large bush in our front yard for probably 20 years. It had drip irrigation, but maybe that wasn't enough because as our area became drier and hotter with climate change, ...

Create a visual feast with pomegranates, miniature pumpkins, Indian corn, gourds, fall flowers, and herbs from your garden. The tuberous roots of sweet potatoes will be ruined if the foliage is ...

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) excels at native plant restoration and ecosystem stewardship on a landscape-wide scale. By creating, extending, and conserving native habitat, they provide permanent and ...

Phoenix is the place to be Nov. 10-13. That's the site of the Entomological Society of America's annual meeting, with thousands of entomologists descending upon the city and the Phoenix Convention ...