Our Role in Sutter-Yuba Counties
The University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Sutter-Yuba is a bi-county office founded in 1918, serving the population of Sutter and Yuba Counties. It is a county-based extension office of the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) and a partnership between the University of California and Sutter and Yuba Counties. Our mission, as a part of UCANR, is to “serve California through the creation, development, and application of knowledge in agricultural, natural, and human resources.”
Our programs serving Sutter County include CalFresh Healthy Living (CFHL), the 4-H Youth Development Program (YDP), and Master Gardeners (MGs). The CFHL program provides comprehensive, evidence-based nutrition and physical activity education aligned with policy systems and environmental change services in early childhood centers, schools, and community environments. The 4-H YDP provides hands-on, experiential programming for youth ages 5 to 18 years old. 4-H YDP programming is often project-based and focuses on Healthy Living, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), as well as Civic Engagement and Leadership. Master Gardeners provide research-based information about home horticulture, pest management, and sustainable landscaping practices to the public. The program encourages healthy living by enhancing local, sustainable, and healthy food systems with quality education programs and community outreach.
What is UC Cooperative Extension?
Across California, the University of California’s 64 Cooperative Extension offices are local problem-solving centers. We are the bridge between local issues and the power of UC research. Our county-based staff is part of the community – we live and work in the areas we serve.
More than 300 campus-based specialists and county-based farm, home and youth advisors work as teams to bring practical, unbiased, science-based answers to problems across California.
As part of the agricultural community, we help farmers develop more-efficient growing methods, solve pest management problems and develop crops and irrigation methods that use less water.
As stewards of the land, we help develop smart water-use strategies, develop wildfire education and help preserve natural areas and farmland.
As advocates for healthy communities, we promote healthy diets and exercise for better health, help Californians learn to choose the most nutritious foods and help shape the citizens of tomorrow through the 4-H Youth Development Program.
And thousands of volunteers extend the reach of our work through the Master Gardener Program and the California 4-H Youth Development Program.
We work in full partnership with federal, state, county and private resources.
We are stewards, problem-solvers, catalysts, collaborators and educators.
We are UC Cooperative Extension.