Nutrition & Health

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IPM for Super Bowl Snacks

February 4, 2021
With the Super Bowl coming up this weekend, you may be planning delicious snacks to enjoy while watching the game. We, on the other hand, are thinking about how IPM can help home gardeners with some of the fruits and vegetables they grow that might be enjoyed on Super Bowl Sunday.
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A honey bee loading up on mustard pollen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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It's All About the Birds and the Bees and the Flowers and the...

February 1, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It's all about the birds and the bees and the flowers and the... Think birds and bats, honey bees and hornets, butterflies and beetles, and the flowers they pollinate. Think yeast cultures and cougars, and nematodes and nightingales, and lions and ladybugs.
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Students graduate from nutrition classes offered by EFNEP in partnership with Project Access in Orange County.
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Federal nutrition programs respond to COVID-19

February 1, 2021
By Jeannette Warnert
In the spring of 2020, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources' Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) and the CalFresh Healthy Living, UC (CFHL UC) Program faced the unprecedented experience of shelter-in-place and school closures due to COVID-19.
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Dried Fruit February
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February's Harvest of the Month: Dried Fruit

February 1, 2021
In February fresh produce is not as abundant as other months of the year, particularly fresh fruit. But this is an excellent time to embrace the many different types of dried fruits that are available throughout the whole year.
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An almond blossom graces an area near the Benicia marina on Jan. 23, 2021. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Hear That Buzz? Almond Pollination Season Is Approaching

January 29, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Hear that buzz? California almond pollination season is approaching. The season usually begins around Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, but we usually see the first-of-the-year almond blooms in mid-January in a hot spot near the Benicia marina. That's where we saw them on Jan.
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Inside a hive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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UC Davis Bee Experts to Teach Online Course for Veterinarians

January 29, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Extension apiculturist Elina Lastro Nio and Bernardo Nio of the E.L. Nio Bee Laboratory, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology are involved in a federally funded course to educate veterinarians in treating diseases of honey bees.
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A monarch caterpillar on a milkweed leaf on Jan. 23 in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Surprise! A Monarch Caterpillar in C-O-L-D January

January 28, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
"What are YOU doing here?" It was Saturday morning, Jan. 23, and the monarch caterpillar seemed to be sunning itself on a milkweed leaf in our family's pollinator garden in Vacaville, Calif., a Solano County city situated between San Francisco and Sacramento. Yes, Saturday, Jan. 23.
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This worker bee sculpture by Donna Billick of Davis, anchors the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven on Bee Biology Road. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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A New Look for the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day

January 27, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
The 10th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day will be different this year. It will not be a day--it will be a month, the month of February. It will not be a walk-around event--it will be virtual.
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