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In most counties, UC Master Gardener volunteers are still available to support your home gardening questions by e-mail, telephone, or ZOOM. Please note that many UC Master Gardener Program public education events statewide are being rescheduled, postponed or moved to an online through April 30, 2020.

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The UC Master Gardener Program designed the California Garden Web to serve as a portal to organize and extend the University of California's vast collection of research-based information about gardening to the public. The California Garden Web focuses on sustainable gardening practices and uses a question and answer format to present solutions. The blog below highlights gardening issues pertaining to the season.

Consumers are driving a move to more sustainable cotton farming in California

Added September 25, 2020

Consumers who purchase luxury cotton textiles want more than cool, soft, absorbent fabric. Increasingly, they demand clothing made from fiber grown using ecologically sound practices and they're willing to pay for it, said speakers representing the...
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources hemp research continues in 2020

Added September 24, 2020

Opportunities and challenges for industrial hemp production in California are being revealed in a series of UC Cooperative Extension research projects. As a crop relatively new to California growers and researchers, there is still much to learn about...

Beekeepers Among Those Benefiting from Vacaville Fire Art Project

Added September 25, 2020

Some lost everything: Their homes, their barns, their farm animals, their bees, their livelihoods. The recent wildfire that roared through rural Vacaville, reaching the outer edges of the city,...