- Author: Tammy Majcherek
After a full day of activities during their Face-to-Face meeting in Orange County, UC Advocacy & Government Relations program were hosted to a dinner under the stars.
The group enjoyed the beautiful evening conversing, snapping pictures on the tractors, and song. Following the dinner and dessert, Darren Haver gave a brief talk about ANR and South Coast REC, after which Steve Juarez and Kate Klimow gave remarks and honored one of the recent retirees.
Topping off the evening were the bags filled with avocados grown at the Center and the UC ANR brochure given to the group to take home.
- Author: Tammy Majcherek
UC Cooperative Extension, Orange County (UCCE) programs (4-H, EFNEP, Master Gardeners, and Master Food
This event, a component of the Food Smart Families Grant, centered around hands-on nutrition based education for families – adults and youth. Parents participated in workshops facilitated by UCCE programs, as their children attended a health and nutrition carnival.
Additionally, a USDA ‘My Plate' workshop and demonstration was led by the UC Expanded Foods & Nutrition Program (EFNEP). With the meal that was demonstrated for these attendees, each family was sent home with the ingredients needed to create the healthy, and delicious, quinoa avocado salad recipe on their own.
To finish off the day, the families had lunch while participation prizes (focused on healthy eating and living) were handed out.
Smiling faces were definitely in abundance for the day.
- Author: Tammy Majcherek
Due to the low harvest, as a result of the unseasonably hot weather this last fall followed erratic highs and low, we will not be holding our annual Cherimoya Tasting this year. We hope that you will check back for upcoming events.
SCREC 2016 event calendar
- Author: Tammy Majcherek
Persimmoncultivars are classified in relation to fruit astringency at harvest: Pollination Constant Non Astringent (PCNA), Pollination Variant Non Astringent (PVNA), Pollination Variant Astringent (PVA) and Pollination Constant Astringent (PCA). The varieties that were evaluated during the tasting included CaliforniaFuyu (PCNA),Gosho (PCNA), OCFuyu (PCNA),Imoto (PCNA),MatsumotoWase (PCNA),MeakawaJiro (PCNA),Hyakume (PVNA), TrueFuyu (PCNA),Trible (PVNA),Jiro (PCNA),Kurakuma (PCNA), andNishimuraWase (PVNA).New to this year's tasting, Kurakuma, which did fairly well among those participating in the evaluation along with Meakawa Jiro, while Gosho proved to be the least liked.
Following the event, over 500 pounds of the harvested fruit was donated to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County to feed the hungry.