Growing New Beginnings – 2024 Guide

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Before you can begin to plant your fruit, nut or berry orchard, much planning has already occurred. Site selection, water management, enterprise budgets, research on pest and disease management practices, marketing plans, soil testing and site preparation are all on the list of must-dos before even considering which varieties to grow. After you’ve worked through … Read more

4 Tips and Tricks for Getting Rid of Yard Waste – 2024 Guide

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Having a beautiful back and front yard adds to the property appeal and significantly raises the value in case you decide to put it on the market. On the other hand, behind all the stunning scenery is a lot of hours of hard work of fertilizing, hauling debris, raking leaves, watering plants, etc. The end … Read more

The Buzz on Bees 2024

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Help native bees pollinate your crops As honeybee colonies continue to sicken and collapse, what can growers do to ensure crops are pollinated? Can other bee species take the place of honeybees? Who is this workers-in-waiting, and what can they do for crops? Other species of bees are not really “in waiting.” They have been … Read more

Key to Success – 2024 Guide

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Motivating and rewarding employees requires work While most of his fellow extension professionals focus on the science of growing-soils, diseases, crop varieties, etc.-Gregorio Billikopf, a farm adviser with the University of California Cooperative Extension, specializes in an equally critical area that often gets too little attention: labor management. His work centers on two distinct topics … Read more

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