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Fresh fruit and veggies, excellent olive oil, a variety of wine and beer … ahhhhhhhh, the good life … and it is all right here at ΢²ªÊÓƵ.

You can find produce at the , scheduled every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., April 1 to June 3. It is a project of Health Education and Promotion, a unit of Student Health Services, and other campus and community organizations.

Or you can consider growing your own fruits and vegetables, with help from a pair of edible gardening seminars presented by the Good Life Garden at the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science.

• April 25— with Robert Norris, a ΢²ªÊÓƵ plant science professor emeritus, and Terry Allan of Seeds of Change.

• May 23— with Chuck Ingles, a Sacramento County farm adviser, and Ed Laivo of the Dave Wilson Nursery.

Each seminar is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and each costs $35, including a box lunch, or $25 without lunch. Register at goodlifegarden.ucdavis.edu, or call Kira O’Donnell, (530) 681-6412.

More RMI-Good Life Garden events

• with Professor Roger Boulton, who holds the Stephen Sinclair Scott Chair in the Department of Viticulture and Enology, and Sacramento grocer and wine merchant Darrell Corti. 6 p.m. May 2, RMI’s Silverado Vineyards Sensory Theater, $125. Register at , or call Kira O’Donnell, (530) 681-6412.

• with Suzanne Ashworth, owner of West Sacramento’s Del Rio Botanical Farm. 11 a.m., Good Life Garden, $65. Register at , or call Kira O’Donnell, (530) 681-6412.

• with Charles Bamforth, Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Malting and Brewing Sciences; Moshe Rosenberg, a food science professor and Cooperative Extension specialist in dairy science and technology; and Clare M. Hasler, a nutritionist and RMI executive director. Co-sponsored by Slow Food Yolo. 1-4 p.m. May 16, Sensory Theater, $75 per person. Register with Kim Bannister, (530) 754-6349 or kbannister@ucdavis.edu.

• Presented in collaboration with ΢²ªÊÓƵ’ California Institute of Food and Agricultural Research, the Culinary Institute of America, and others. June 21-23, ΢²ªÊÓƵ and in the Napa Valley. Registration and more information: .

Tasting events

• April 1—Wine and beer tasting, a benefit for the ΢²ªÊÓƵ Hospice Program and Sacramento’s AIDS Housing Alliance. With piano music by ΢²ªÊÓƵ physician Don Zacharias, associate medical director of the hospice and home health services. 5-8 p.m., Sierra 2 Center for the Arts and Community, 2791 24th St., Sacramento. $20 per person in advance, $25 at the door. To arrange reservations, call the AIDS Housing Alliance, (916) 979-0925, or send an e-mail to KayC@AIDSHousingAlliance.org.

• April 1—, a monthly event presented by the Gunrock Pub and the Cal Aggie Alumni Association’s Vintage Aggies Wine Club. $10; no reservations needed. 5-6:30 p.m., Gunrock Pub, Silo, on the Davis campus.