Celebrate the healthy way!

Calling all third grade teachers! Have you registered for Farm and Nutrition Day? Registration is now open. UC CalFresh participates each year by providing an interactive play for students. 

UC CalFresh teaches students about "sometimes" and "anytime" foods

Please see the press release below for additional information.

Farm Day open to Fresno County third-grade classes

Published: September 12, 2013

By Jacob Rayburn — The Fresno Bee

Fresno County schools can register for the ninth annual Farm and Nutrition Day, the Fresno County Farm Bureau said.

The agricultural and food-related field trip for third-graders on March 21 teaches students about the county's agricultural industry, how to make healthy food choices and lets students interact with people in the industry. There will be activities, presentations and demonstrations.

Applications are available online at www.fcfb.org by clicking on Farm and Nutrition Day under the events tab or at www.FresnoFair.com by clicking on the Farm and Nutrition Day program link. The registration deadline is Feb. 21.

Financial assistance for transportation may be provided to schools that apply. For more information contact the Fresno County Farm Bureau at (559) 237-0263 or via email at info@fcfb.org.

Well folks, the yellow tomatoes are getting ready to head to Fresno County classrooms!

We took a sneak peak this afternoon. Those golden beauties will be in route first thing tomorrow morning, arriving at Fresno Schools before 9a.m.

Wednesday morning all schools outside of Fresno Unified will receive their Tasting Time kit.

Here they are ready to be re-packaged

They will come in boxes like this, labeled with "Tasting Time" on the exterior of the box.

Label on exterior of box.

Bags inside the box will have enrolled teachers names on them.

Your classroom label will be on your bag of tomatoes.

Let us know how students like the tasting!

Last Friday our nutrition educators had the opportunity to provide a mini-workshop to the Adult Transition Program, at Fresno Unified Food Services.

The Adult Transition Program serves 18-22 year old's with functional skills education.

These young adults loved learning more about choosing low-fat milk more often! We anticipate offering a class series soon as a follow up to this workshop. 

Here's a picture of our nutrition educator, Kristi Sharp, in action teaching about calcium and low-fat milk consumption. 

Would you like UC CalFresh to provide nutrition education? Give us a call at: 559-241-7532.