UC Master Gardeners - Sutter Yuba

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The UCCE Master Gardeners of Sutter-Yuba Counties welcome you!

Who are we?

UCCE Master Gardeners are trained representatives of the University of California Cooperative Extension, assisting the gardening community of Sutter and Yuba Counties by providing research-based home gardening information.*

*To learn more, visit the statewide UC Master Gardener Program and the California Garden Web.

Ask us! We are here to help if you have gardening questions, want to have us identify a plant or animal for you, or just want to know more about us. Complete our intake form here to get your questions answered.

UC ANR Blogs

Winning PBESA Images: A Damselfly, a Blowfly and a Monarch

An image of a damselfly photographed in Hawaii, and images of a blowfly and a monarch photographed in California won the Photo Salon recently hosted by the Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America (PBESA) Photo Salon coordinator Joshua Milnes, an entomologist with the Plant Protection...

By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Author - Communications specialist
There Is No Planet 'B'

There is no "Planet B." The Earth is all we have. Today, April 22, is Earth Day (an annual event launched April 22, 1970) and what a perfect occasion to celebrate a native bee and a native wildflower. Bombus vosnesenskii,aka the yellow-faced bumble bee, meet the California...

By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Author - Communications specialist
All the 'Bugs' at UC Davis Picnic Day Will Be at Briggs Hall

Wait! Don't head over to the Bohart Museum of Entomology in the Academic Surge Building on Crocker Lane on Saturday, April 20 during the 110th annual UC Davis Picnic Day. Why? It will be closed. The Bohart Museum, part of the UC Davis Department of Entomology...

By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Author - Communications specialist
Firewise: Fire Resistant Plants

The devastating Camp Fire of 2018, along with the numerous fires North State residents have experienced since then, have led many of us to focus on creating a defensible fire-resistant landscape around our homes. As noted in this column last Friday, the key to establishing defensible space is...

By Brent McGhie, UC Master Gardener of Butte County
Author