July • 2010

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Of the 118 known elements included in the Periodic Table, 16 were discovered at UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. They include berkelium (Bk), discovered in 1949; californium (Cf), discovered in 1950; lawrencium (Lr), discovered in 1961 and named for lab founder and Nobel physicist Ernest O. Lawrence; and seaborgium (Sg), discovered in 1974 and named after the Nobel chemist Glenn Seaborg who was involved with the discovery of many of these elements.

UC helps family farmers expand strawberry sales

UC Cooperative Extension is helping Sacramento-area strawberry growers sell their crops to school cafeterias, increasing farm income, providing fresh fruit to school kids and cutting waste.

The farmers typically sell their berries at roadside produce stands. During the peak growing season the sales don’t match the production, and some fruit is left to rot in the fields. Ten small-scale family farms, most of them owned by Southeast Asian refugees, now sell strawberries to five local school districts.

The farmers collectively increased their sales by $58,000. A small-scale farm typically grosses an average of $15,000.

UC researchers, with a USDA grant, also created an online map to help consumers find spots to buy farm-fresh berries. They identified 95 Sacramento-area strawberry stands.

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