The fascinating, crucial work of a poison control center
At the California Poison Control System in San Francisco, a call has just come in from a mother whose toddler accidentally ...
The fascinating, crucial work of the Bay Area’s poison control center
At the California Poison Control System in San Francisco ... Nature and wildlife: insect stings, toxic plants and mushrooms, ...
15 gifts for L.A. gardeners and plant parents of all levels
Many cutesy, 'have-to-have' garden gifts serve little real purpose. Here are gifts curated by real gardeners that plant ...
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Collecting seeds to create native plant spaces for wildlife | The Real Dirt
The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...
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Collecting seeds to create native plant spaces for wildlife | The Real Dirt
Northern California plants that have seeds carrying ... and a pair of gloves to avoid any contact with thorns or poison oak plants. Ethical harvesting means you don’t take too many seeds from ...
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After California’s Park Fire, A Second Bloom of Milkweed
He is also a California Plains Miwok traditional cultural practitioner. Native tribes of Central California tended milkweed with fire and used the plant’s fibers in feather ... Hankins pointed to a ...
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An update on scarab beetles and the damage they can do in the garden
She writes, “I am a past board member of the California Rare Fruit Growers ... dressing wounds, and treating poison oak infections as well as for smudge ceremonies. Chaparral sage is widely ...
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'How Wild' podcast explores the history of the wilderness and its future
DETROW: That was an excerpt of the new podcast "How Wild" from KALW Public Media. You can listen to "How Wild" wherever you get your podcasts. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Beyond Taste Buds: The Science of Delicious
The aversion to bitter foods is inborn too, she said, and it also has survival value: It helps us avoid ingesting toxins that plants evolved ... Food or poison? Vertebrates arose more than 500 ...
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Collecting Seeds to Create Native Plant Spaces for Wildlife
In addition to the California poppy, other plants of this type in our ... and a pair of gloves to avoid any contact with thorns or poison oak plants. Ethical harvesting means you don't take too many ...