Healthy Communities Blog

Although training is required to become a University of California Master Gardener, the benefits of gardening can be experienced by anyone and everyone.

Residents co-create the project with UC Master Gardeners and UC Master Food Preservers Harmony Village is a 62-unit permanent supportive housing project in Yuba City for low-income individuals who are either homeless or precariously housed, with priority going to veterans, the disabled and the elder...

From August 2023 to March 2024, UC Cooperative Extension in San Bernardino County provided interactive classes and demonstrations in English and Spanish for ethnically diverse and limited-resource residents that led to increased food security and reduced food waste.

It's not uncommon for high school or college students to speak up and seek to improve their school environment. But at Evergreen Middle School in Tehama County, more than 100 sixth graders led the way to create healthy changes at their school.

Last year, while working on a bill that would require California public schools to provide at least 30 minutes of recess, State Sen. Josh Newman sought the latest research on youth physical activity.