…15-50 feet. Method of Climbing: non-climber. Hardiness: Sunset Zones 12-21. Water use: low. Vines add a vertical dimension to the desert landscape that is difficult to achieve with any other…
The California Kitchen: Pressure Cooked Beets with a brule of Pistachio and Honey
…need: 3 Cleaned Beets Cubed 1QT Water 1 Cup Pistachios rough Chopped Drizzle Raw Honey Bravo Bilton Blue Cheese To get the cooking directions, listen to today’s California Kitchen from…
Almond Board: Prepare for Almond Conference
…is a discounted rate for conference attendees, and you can book online. With three days focused on hot topics like water and bees, a trade show with more than 250…
Water Bond Funding Could be Stretched Thin
…available which means a lot of projects just won’t happen. Water Bond Funding Could be Stretched Thin California Farm water Coalition Executive Director Mike Wade says many of the projects…
Almond Forecast Up
…2015. Many areas are still in drought, although trees showed signs of recovery from the last few years of insufficient water. The average nut set per tree is 6,159, up…
California Water Alliance Changes Initiative Plans
There’s a stall in a movement to change California water policy. The California Water Alliance is pulling back its signature gathering campaign in order to change the wording on its…
‘Keep Management Local’ Still Focus for SGMA
California has about a year left to get all of the water management entities in place for the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) and experts say the need to keep…
Agri View: The Computer Age
…maintenance and efficiently apply fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides and water. Computer-aided Applications Farmers rely on computers to help them assess and use the data from satellite images and from various other…
Agri View: Golf Course Farming?
…American middle class.) This leaves big chunks of fairly desirable land, carefully tended and often with water and electrical hookups, sitting unused, all around the country. And a curious thing…
Partnerships Formed for Temperance Flat Research
Courtesy: WAPA Water Leaders Form Partnership to Look at Temperance Flat Dam and Reservoir Feasibility Central Valley water and agriculture groups say the Temperance Flat Dam and Reservoir project took…
Draft of Approved Changes to Basin Boundaries
DWR Releases Draft of Approved Changes to California Groundwater Basin Boundaries The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) released a draft of its approved changes to California’s groundwater basin boundaries,…
EPA Proposes Protection from Selenium
…The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed a federal Clean Water Act rule to tighten the current selenium water quality criteria for the waters of San Francisco Bay and Delta. The…
Air Quality Incentives Available
…the local USDA Service Center. NRCS has provided leadership in a partnership effort to help America’s private landowners and managers conserve their soil, water and other natural resources since 1935….
Less Runoff Means More Salinity Management
…reservoirs and less water for everybody, farming and non-farming communities,” Bali said. As growers know, the need to find ways to conserve water will continue but so will salinity issues….