Nutrition & Health

Recipes and Preservation Information

Planting guide to help Sonoma County home gardeners understand how and when to plant food crops in their gardens including planting dates, direct seeding and transplanting, gardening tips and time to maturity information.

Ancient corn known as maize from areas near the Andes eventually hybridized with other grasses to become the field corn grown world-wide today. Succulent sweet corn was a spontaneous mutation in field corn and continues to be hybridized by commercial breeders.

Of more than 4,000 known varieties of potatoes, only about 100 are commercially marketed and sold in produce markets. While it is impossible for home gardeners to explore all the rest, nurseries and seed catalogs offer dozens of quality possibilities for growing in home gardens.

By trial and error, a master gardener discovered that his local squirrels loved string bean shoots, but didn't prefer Asian Long Beans.

Edible gardens are certainly not immune to pests and diseases. Pests can take out tender young plant shoots in one night, eat holes in mature leaves and fruit, and leave slimy tracks all over.

What can the EFNEP Adult Program do for you? By means of the Eating Smart Being Active curriculum, EFNEP helps limited-resource adults and their families establish and maintain healthy eating habits, physically active lifestyles, and sound nutritional knowledge.

The Nutrition Policy Institute (NPI) conducts research to support the development of and inform improvements to federal, state and local food and physical activity policies and guidance.

Nutrition Policy Institute believes that efforts to reduce consumption of sugary beverages should be complemented by work to enable healthy substitutes, and particularly plain water. This page provides links to locate NPI’s drinking water related resources.

Fall Garden Fair vegetable descriptions. In Santa Clara County, we can grow delicious vegetables year round. Our cool season lets us grow vegetables that are typically grown as early spring vegetables elsewhere in the U.S.