Youth Development

During the pandemic, the United States Department of Agriculture temporarily offered free school meals every school day to all students at no charge, but this federal provision ended in June 2022.

El programa REC ha llegado a ms de 168 mil personas gracias al amplio apoyo comunitario Las expresiones de oohs y aahs se escuchan por todo el saln de clases cuando Stacey Amparano directora del programa Farm Smart, en el Centro de Investigacin y Extensin del Desierto de Holtville, arranca una mazor...

La pandemia, con sus enormes desafos puso en riesgo la alimentacin y nutricin de los estadounidenses. Al inici de la crisis muchas familias perdieron el acceso a los alimentos saludables.

I just wanted to give a little update on the 2023 Devil's Garden (DG) Colt Challenge. We had 40 youth in 4-H and FFA enroll in the program from 18 counties all over California.

If bees are your buddies, ants ought to be your friends, right? Right. They belong to the same order, Hymenoptera, but some folks insist that ants don't belong in your life. Oh, but they do! Find out why at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, May 21.

According to a study conducted by the Nutrition Policy Institute at the University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources, parents of K-12 students in California overwhelmingly value the benefits of school meals, such as saving families money and time, reducing family stress, and improving...

The 4-H Student Nutrition Advisory Council (SNAC) club at Rice Elementary returned to in-person meetings this year for the first time since March 2020.

Saoimanu "Saoi" Sope, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources digital communications specialist, was born on Aunu'u, an island in American Samoa, but raised in Southern California. She attended UC Santa Cruz for her undergraduate degree in film and digital media.

Over 13 million Californians participate in safety net programs that provide resources including health insurance, food assistance, and tax credits.

A Graduate Student Researcher position is available starting summer 2023 with the Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology at the University of California, Berkeley.