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CalFresh Healthy Living UCCE nutrition education program helps students increase willingness to try new healthy foods with 79-82% reporting they would ask for the target foods at home, contributing to improved youth nutrition and health.

From New York Times, 3 October 2020 - A sad story about a poisonous invasive weed.

A "Natural History Note" From UC California Naturalist's new lead scientist, Dr. Cameron Barrows. Back in 2016 I published a paper that quantified the added value of volunteer community scientists contributing to field surveys of lizards in Joshua Tree National Park.

By Cynthia Kerson, UC Master Gardener of Napa County Recently, my husband asked me what to feed his container plants as they were starting to flower. I took his question as an opportunity to brush up on how to understand a fertilizer label.

Hello 4-H community, The Monterey County 4-H Camp program, Camp McCandless, will be held at Camp MayMac in the Santa Cruz Mountains. This site features a full kitchen, swimming pool, basketball and volleyball courts, hiking trails and cabins and much more. This years dates are June 13th-18th, 2021.

Snacks for Preschoolers - Filling Nutritional Gaps; Tips for Smart Snacking; Creative Snacking; Program Opportunities...

A gravid praying mantis, Stagmomantis limbata, crawls out of a patch of African blue basil, and begins checking out the honey bees. Decisions. Decisions. Dozens of them are buzzing around, gathering nectar for their colony. They are not aware she is there.

Not I. Who can have the blues when this plant is obtainable? This beautiful plant Baptisia australis has been around a long time. The blue flowers were used as a blue dye by the American Indians and the early settlers. Stems when broken, secrete a sap that turns dark blue with contact from the air.

Myfany Turpin of the University of Sydney will speak on "Grub's Up! The Category of Edible Insect Larvae in Central Australian Aboriginal Languages" at the UC Davis Entomology and Nematology's virtual seminar at 4:10 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 7.