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California's San Joaquin Valley is home to many low-income Latino agricultural-worker families who disproportionately experience food insecurity and diet-related diseases. Yet free school meal participation is surprisingly low.

Colleagues, After several years of dedicated effort, including extensive systemwide discussion review, a new Presidential Policy on Abusive Conduct in the Workplace became effective on Jan. 1, 2023. This policy applies equally to faculty, staff and student employees.

UC Master Gardeners Janet Rogers and Trudy AdairVerbais will share a research-based presentation, Growing Tasty Tomatoes. Janet and Trudy will speak to the growing needs of tomatoes: Soil, water, support structures, nutrition, pest management, coastal varieties, and more.

[From the UC Master Gardener Program Statewide Blog] California will be hit by an unusually cold storm this weekend, with snow possible at low elevations and a blizzard warning for parts of Southern California.

The Covid pandemic accelerated a movement to backyard edible gardening that had been underway in this country since the mid-20th century. But the idea of the cultivated edible landscape goes back much farther, to the first colonists in the 1600s.

Congratulations to UC Davis doctoral alumna and researcher Cindy McReynolds and UC Davis distinguished professor of entomology Bruce Hammock.

UC President Michael V. Drake will hold a systemwide UC Town Hall on Feb. 24, from 11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. (PT). President Drake will share opening remarks, then engage in conversation with Priya Lakireddy and Jo Mackness, staff advisor and staff advisor-designate to the UC Regents.

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California will be hit by an unusually cold storm this weekend, with snow possible at low elevations and a blizzard warning for parts of Southern California. Freezing temperatures can cause serious damage to plants, and it's important to take steps to protect them. Water your plants.

Research molecular biologist Dana Nayduch of the Agricultural Research Service, U. S.