Since 1914 UC Cooperative Extension has been the bridge between local issues and innovative answers through the power of UC research. • Serving where private industry cannot or will not, UC ANR's work ...

This is the system we use to confirm enrollment and where you keep track of your 4-H experience. NOTE – If your family is new to 4-H you must first create a Household and then add profiles for each ...

Graphic showing a green lawn beside a modern building with text reading “Non-Functional Turf Irrigation Regulations – Assembly Bill 1572” and Golden State Water Company branding. California continues ...

To help farmers and other Californians address emerging issues, the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources has hired more UC Cooperative Extension experts with a wide range of ...

The strawberry is not a true fruit since the botanical fruits are the small, hardened achenes that everybody refers to as “seeds” distributed on the outside of the ripened receptacle that contains all ...

A new study examining the impact of federal and state Universal Free School Meal policies highlights how expanding access to school meals can help address food insecurity, reduce barriers to meal ...

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 ...

There are legions of invertebrate garden pests that can wreak havoc in our gardens. They are the munchers, suckers, borers and slimers. In our area we mostly deal with a “dirty dozen” of invertebrate ...

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 ...

Growing up in rural Alabama, Kimberly Sinclair Holmes – the new statewide director of California 4-H – experienced firsthand the enduring value of youth development programs in a limited-resource ...

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,” ...

Catalonia, a famed region in northeast Spain, has a lot in common with California – beautiful coastline and mountains, a sunny Mediterranean climate and a robust agricultural sector that produces wine ...