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UC Davis student Elise Brockett plants vegetable seedlings at the Horticulture Innovation Lab Demonstration Center this spring. A few extra raised beds are waiting for contest winners’ bright ideas. (Brenda Dawson/UC Davis)

Green thumbs need apply

  • by Brenda Dawson

Deadline approaching for ‘Pitch-and-Plant’ campus gardening contest

Bright ideas and green thumbs are the only prerequisites for a campus gardening contest hosted by the Horticulture Innovation Lab.

At the Horticulture Innovation Lab Demonstration Center on campus, a few empty raised garden beds are waiting for some new plants. The “Pitch-and-Plant” gardening contest invites students and community members to help fill those garden beds with interesting plants.

Melissa Rosero

Ag Students Roll Up Sleeves to Learn

  • by Robin Derieux

There are plenty of opportunities for hands-on experience at UC Davis.

Sure, UC Davis students are smart, but they also know how to roll up their sleeves. Inside the classroom, they learn why. Outside the classroom, they learn how.

Many of these students in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences get hands-on learning through internships on campus and in various industries connected to agriculture.

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