County, partners take steps to save remaining working farms and ranches Cherry grower Chris Borello’s extended family has been farming in Coyote Valley and other parts of southern Santa Clara Valley for generations. But the clan is also among the South County landowners who have cashed in over the years on the sky-high price of…
Environment, Parks, Public Health
Mosquitoes: lab abuzz with disease detectives
Santa Clara County Vector Control lab: the scientists behind eradicating mosquitoes Ideally, summer is about freedom from homework, weekends at the lake and hanging out into the night, not mosquitoes. That’s why it’s also the season when Santa Clara County is most active protecting residents from the threat of the West Nile virus-carrying insects….
Santa Clara County, Environment
Green Businesses Saving Planet — and Money
Not that hard being green With all due respect to Kermit the Frog, time has proved the adorable amphibian wrong. Contrary to the Muppet’s memorable lamentation in 1970, it’s actually pretty easy being green nowadays. To be fair, when Kermit sang about how “it isn’t easy bein’ green,” he was referring to what he saw…
