Nutrition & Health

En San Bernardino en la escuela preparatoria San Andreas alrededor de 500 jvenes, que por diversas razones no han podido obtener su diploma, tienen una nueva oportunidad para graduarse y explorar opciones vocacionales de una manera prctica y divertida.

In a San Bernardino high school, a unique partnership allows 500 students to experience high-tech farming while learning about nutrition and entrepreneurship.

It's that time of year again when the strawberries on the Central Coast of California ripen in the fields and the markets begin bursting with flats of these juicy red berries.

The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) has partnered with San Andreas High School for over a decade. The partnership began with EFNEP bringing workshops on preparing and eating healthy food to the Cal SAFE program for pregnant teens.

The federal Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC)provides supplemental foods, health care referrals, nutrition education, and breastfeeding support for low-income women, infants and children up to age five who are at nutritional risk.

Instructions for making homemade mixtures to control pests are easy to find online and in social media, and it's tempting to make your own home remedy when pests invade.

USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) impacts the lives of participants through education as well as policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change initiatives at schools, early care and education facilities, food banks and pantries, and other community sites.

Our Tips for Terrific Tomatoes class is now available to watch on our UCCE Stanislaus County Master Gardener YouTube Channel. Master Gardeners Terry Harper and Heidi Aufdermaur delivered some great tips for growing successful tomato plants.

They're described as "groundbreakers" and "risk-takers" and "trendsetters." They're known for their creativity. What they do, however, does not involve correcting social injustices, breaking ceilings in workplaces or pushing the latest fashions, as the descriptive adjectives might indicate.

Research projects of two UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology faculty members, community ecologists Richard Rick Karban and Rachel Vannette and their laboratories, are showcased in the USDA's Multistate Research Fund's impact statement on "Using Chemical Ecology to Control Pests and Prot...