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More young people see future in farming
Posted 1/26/2012 - The USDA is gearing up for the 2012 Census of Agriculture, the complete count it makes every five years of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them. The...

Nearby open space raises the value of homes
Posted 1/25/2012 - The closer homes are to open spaces – parks, stream and river corridors, forests and other natural lands – the higher the value of the homes in Riverside and San Bernardino...

Plan, shop, save and cook
Posted 1/24/2012 - To meet the needs of today’s time-pressed consumers, UC Cooperative Extension nutrition, family and consumer sciences advisors collected the most pertinent food budgeting and...

Feed big; start small
Posted 1/19/2012 - Adapted from an article by Eileen Ecklund in Breakthroughs magazine.Scaling up — that’s always the sticking point with organic farming when it faces the question of whether...

Chocolate extravaganza set for Feb. 4 at UC Davis
Posted 1/18/2012 - Chocolate lovers take note: Tickets are available for the Feb. 4 “Chocolate” extravaganza at the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science at UC Davis. The day will...