Farmers placed clumps of soil into metal mesh baskets, submerged the baskets into jars of water, then watched to see if their soil held together. The slake test, conducted at the Soil Health Field Day ...

En el condado de San Diego existen más de cinco mil pequeñas granjas, pero, de acuerdo con el Censo Agrícola del 2022, menos del 2 por ciento son operadas o pertenecen a una persona negra, indígena o ...

The quince tree ( Cydonia oblonga) is in the rose family along with apples and pears, but is the only member in the Cydonia group. The fruit is tough to cut, and the cut flesh is the color of an apple ...

The lively local food and farming community in Modoc County also includes smaller-scale vegetable and fruit farms; the State ...

Both Woodmansee's paper and the new grant are based on more than a decade of surveys and interviews with ranchers and other agriculturalists. That work all points to the economic and social barriers ...

California farmers are at the heart of global food production, but staying ahead requires constant innovation. To meet this challenge, VINE Connect bridges the gap between innovation and application ...

We are filled with gratitude! To everyone who donated so generously on Giving Tuesday, thank you so much. Your gift supports our work and helps growing our 4-H programs so more youth can be beyond ...

The Belden Village Apartments in Clairemont Mesa East of San Diego is home to a diverse population of older adults. Shital ...

San Diego county has over 5,000 farms, more than any other county in the United States. 69% of those are between 1-9 acres and though the median size farm is just 4 acres, our county's farmers rank ...

Below are UC ANR's condition changes grouped by our more umbrella public values. The UC ANR condition changes were developed in 2017 through a participatory process that engaged academics and program ...

Blue elderberry is a wild plant – no clonally propagated cultivars exist yet. Propagation from seed is more reliable and contributes to genetic diversity. Propagation from cuttings may be more ...

Kiwifruit is almost exclusively propagated asexually by grafting fruiting varieties onto seedling rootstock, or using semi-hardwood or hardwood cuttings to ensure production of true to type cultivars ...