Nutrition & Health

After growing up in northern British Columbia, in a remote smelter town called Kitimat (an 8-hour drive from the nearest McDonald's), University of California Professor of Cooperative Extension Linda J.

Skip the store and grow your own peanut butter, but it won't be in a jiffy. This season, we decided to grow peanuts in the Edible Plants Plot at the Community Garden Demonstration Garden. Why not? They are as pretty as any pea plant and just as easy to grow.

Wheat products account for roughly 20% of what people eat every day around the globe. As climate changes, wheat crops must adapt to new weather patterns to keep up with demand.

Easy access to safe and appealing drinking water is important throughout the school day for students and staff and is required as part of school foodservice, including for school year 2021-2022.

Wendi Gosliner, senior researcher and policy advisor at the Nutrition Policy Institute, spoke on a panel on policy and advocacy on January 28 at a virtual symposium hosted by the University of California, Berkeley and Plant Futures.

For students at Esperanza Education Center, an adult transition program serving students with disabilities in south Orange County, there was something deeply satisfying about handpicking 2,000 pounds of avocados.

A team of scientists from University of California, Davis, have identified a new gene variant in wheat that can increase the amount of the grain produced, new research published in the journal PLOS Genetics finds.

Medical entomologist Thomas W. Scott, a UC Davis distinguished professor who retired in 2015 but continues his scientific research, has been named one of the world's Highly Cited Researchers for the third consecutive year. Professor Scott, who now resides in Luck, Wis.

Families with low-income that participate in the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programknown as CalFresh in Californiareceive monthly benefits to spend on food.

UC IPM is excited to continue with our monthly urban and community IPM webinars. Webinars cover pest identification, management, and pesticide use around homes and gardens for California residents. Spring webinar registration is now open to the public.