Nutrition & Health

Streamline your preparations by following this schedule to ensure a food-safe holiday. Saturday, November 3rd: Plan your menu and make your grocery list. Divide the list into two categories: perishable and non-perishable foods. Get an oven-safe food thermometer (if you don't already have one).

What a night of frights and delights! The Bohart Museum Society hosted the Bohart Museum of Entomology's 24th annual pre-Halloween party on Saturday, Oct. 27 at the University of California, Davis, billing it as They Come From Within" and promising a haunting night full of frights and delights.

Advice for the Home Gardener from the Help Desk of the UC Master Gardener Program of Contra Costa County Client's Request: Something has literally destroyed my cabbage. A month ago I found large groups of tiny white bugs on the bottom of some leaves, possibly spider mites.

The inaugural San Diego Food Tank Summit will be held Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Food Tank is extending a special invitation to students associated with UC ANR to attend the Summit for free! Please share this message with your students to spread the word about this opportunity.

Findings of the 2017 Healthy Kids Survey in Trinity County showed about three-quarters of teens lack healthy social connectivity, and most feel disconnected at school.

Two University of California graduate students have been selected by UC Agriculture and Natural Resources as UC Global Food Initiative (GFI) fellows for 2018-19.

Advice for the Home Gardener from the Help Desk of the UC Master Gardener Program of Contra Costa County Client's Request: My sister brought me some heads of hardneck garlic from her harvest in Idaho. I would like to know when is the best time to plant this garlic for this area.

What this scientist discovered in an insect and why it matters... Naoki Yamanaka, an assistant professor at UC Riverside (UCR), is known for his innovative and creative research. In fact, the National Institute of Health (NIH) just awarded him a $2.

From the Topics in Subtropics blog (Oct. 15, 2018) ****************** Although the main objective of herbicide use in avocado orchards (and all crops) is to manage weed populations, sometimes unintentional injury of the crop itself can occur when herbicides are incorrectly applied.

Our friends the honey bees make it possible for us to devour an abundance of almond products. In 2016 the California almond crop totaled 2.15 billion pounds valued at $5.2 billion.