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Rod Stiefvater speaks at a Department of Plant Sciences seminar
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Gift extends UC Davis pistachio research on new scions, rootstocks

March 6th, 2025
By Emily C. Dooley
The University of California, Davis, is enhancing and expanding its Pistachio Breeding Program after a generous gift from philanthropist and pistachio farmer Rod Stiefvater, who is donating more than $335,000 over three years to develop new rootstocks that thrive under changing climate conditions.
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California producers: Climate change is real; we could use a little help

February 26th, 2025
By Trina Kleist
How can farmers and ranchers continue to grow our food while facing challenges of a changing climate, increasingly scarce water, land use pressures and rising costs? UC and UC ANR scientists are using surveys and interviews with people in the state's agricultural sector to learn what folks need to stay…
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The Principles of Indigenous Food Sovereignty

February 5th, 2025
By Kitty Oppliger
Indigenous Food Sovereignty: Opportunities and Importance in Extension work In 2007, the first global Forum on Food Sovereignty defined the concept as the right of peoples to healthy, culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define t...
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Will importing workers lead to importing crops?

December 6th, 2024
A dwindling and aging agricultural workforce, coupled with higher labor costs, have added pressure on U.S. farms over the past decade. A recent study by University of California agricultural economists Alexandra Hill and James Sayre explores these changing trends in U.S.
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Students design high-tech solutions through Farm Robotics Challenge

October 25th, 2024
By Michael Hsu
A robot that navigates and weeds row-crop fields and its design team from Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts have garnered the grand prize in the second annual Farm Robotics Challenge. Five winning teams, representing various universities and colleges across the U.S.
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CalFresh Healthy Living, UCCE Fresno/Madera Counties

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The California SNAP-Ed Mission

To inspire and empower under-served Californians to improve their health by promoting awareness, education, and community change through diverse partnerships, resulting in healthy eating and active living.

Who We Are

CalFresh Healthy Living, University of California Cooperative Extension (CFHL, UCCE) is a nutrition education program serving SNAP eligible individuals and families in Fresno and Madera Counties.

What We Do

CalFresh Healthy Living, UCCE teaches people eligible for SNAP about good nutrition, how to make their food dollars stretch further, and how to be physically active at any age. Effective, evidence based nutrition education and physical activity classes are aligned with policy, systems and evaluation change strategies to create long lasting community change in Fresno and Madera Counties.

For more information about our state-wide program, please click here.

Who We Reach

CalFresh Healthy Living, UCCE reaches preschool (3-5) and school aged (5-17) their families, as well as adults (18-59) and seniors (60+) at early childhood centers, schools, and community environments.

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