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Community gardens are popping up across the nation from urban rooftops to open fields next to churches in Watsonville.

Every winter Western Monarch butterflies make their home on the Central Coast.  Come spring, no one knows exactly where they go.  Now researchers aim to find out the Monarchs' other home, where the next generation is born.    

There are several pilot projects underway in the Monterey Bay Area exploring the idea of a very localized power source: micro-grids that tap into the region’s wind and sun.