Key to delicious tree fruit is keeping it out of the "killing zone"
The fond memories of delicious peaches just plucked from a backyard tree or purchased at a roadside stand can now be relived with fruit picked up at the neighborhood grocery store. The key to great-tasting fruit with a pleasing texture, according to a UC scientist based at the Kearney Research and Extension Center near Parlier, is in the way it is handled after harvest.
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March 17, 2010
Tomatoes- Tomatoes- Tomatoes - Fresno Master Gardeners -
March 17, 2010
Pruning Young Walnuts and Hedgerow Pruning Meeting - Sutter-Yuba Counties -
March 17, 2010
Walnut Pruning Field Meeting - Yolo County -
March 18, 2010
26th Annual Marin County Farm Day - Marin County -
March 19, 2010
Cover Crop & Erosion Control Field Day - El Dorado County -
March 20, 2010
Foothill Vegetable Gardening Workshop - Mariposa County - View More
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Identifying exactly how female mosquitoes detect their human prey is crucial to developing strategies for mosquito control and reducing mosquito bites, says chemical ecologist Walter Leal, professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis. |
The fine art of sheep shearing will be taught in a school being offered in May by the University of California Cooperative Extension on the North Coast. |
The UC Integrated Pest Management program has been at the forefront of computerized communications since its inception in the early 1980s.  |
