Healthy Communities Blog

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.

Not all young people are on an expressway to a four-year college, and a new publication from University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources acknowledges their many circumstances and possibilities.

UC Davis and UC ANR receive $10 million for water research and education; Bay Area children will be invited to learn about water's importance to life A new University of California Cooperative Extension program will teach Bay Area schoolchildren about water through hands-on activities.

When agricultural advisors came to the Cochiti Pueblo in New Mexico during the 1940s, they lined the irrigation ditches with concrete, in the name of boosting efficiency and productivity.

When Laura Snell first came to the far northeastern corner of California, she was amazed to find that the Board of Supervisors in Modoc County where cows outnumber people by a ratio of 13 to 1 was composed almost entirely of women.