Youth Development

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master gardeners explaining tree attributes to a person who will be planting the tree at home.
Environmental Horticulture News: Article

Trees for Tomorrow Update: Trees Cool 1,900 Urban Heat Islands (updated 10/2024)

June 1, 2023
By Janet S Hartin
A major focus of the UC Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Master Gardener program in San Bernardino, Riverside and - more recently, Los Angeles County - is to implement the Trees for Tomorrow Start Today project in partnership with over 30 other community-based partners and agencies including the South C...
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UC Davis first-year entomology student Kat Taylor (in ant headgear) staffed the arts-and-crafts table at the Bohart Museum open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Colony of Red Ants Roams the Bohart Museum of Entomology

May 31, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
A colony of red ants recently roamed the Bohart Museum of Entomology. They really weren't red ants, but children wearing ant headgear, created during the family arts-and-crafts activity at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's open house on ants.
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Pies de grabado Stacey Amparano ayuda a sus jóvenes voluntarios a desgranar una mazorca.
Comunidades Saludables: Article

Farm Smart inculca aprecio por la agricultura en el valle Imperial

May 22, 2023
By Basilisa M Rawleigh
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...
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