Backyard Orchard News
This is agriculture literacy week.
This is agriculture literacy week. Please enjoy this video by California Secretary of Agriculture, Karen Ross.
Produce at a farmer's market.
Strange Weather We're Having
Strange weather we're having here in Central California. After soaring into the 90s, the...
A Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) lands on a passioinflower blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a passionflower vine blossom. Passiflora is the host plant of the Gulf Fritillary. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Like a flamenco dancer, the Gulf Fritillary is showy. Here it is on a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Former Kearney intern Leslie Roche named CE specialist
At Kearney she gained her first experience conducting and extending applied research working with her mentors, UC ANR Cooperative Extension specialists Charlie Summers, Jim Stapleton and Jeff Mitchell.
Roche presented the research at the State FFA Conference 2000 and was named the California State FFA Agriscience Student of the Year. Roche continued to excel in her education and research. In 2012, she received the Shapiro Family Award for Excellence in Science for the quality of her doctorate dissertation and outstanding academic and research record at UC Davis.
Roche has a bachelor's degree in agricultural management and rangeland resources, a master's in horticulture and agronomy and a doctorate degree in ecology. Her current projects include “California Ranch Stewardship Project: Adaptive Management for Profit and Rangeland Health,” “On-Ranch Impacts, Management and Planning Horizons Following Severe Drought” and “Wildfire and Grazing Management and Planning.”
That Wet Stuff!
The rain that pounded Northern California on Oct. 18--complete with thunder and lightening--also...
Honey bee caught in the storm attempts to dry off. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee on top of its world--a yellow rose. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Winning Streak
It's delightful to see the gray hairstreak. We're not talking about the gray streaks in our hair...
A common gray hairstreak, Strymon melinus, nectarine on a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Check out the length of the proboscis on the gray hairstreak as it sips nectar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Peek-a-boo! A gray hairstreak peers at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)