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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California 4-H Grown: Article

DG Colt Challenge Update

May 18, 2023
By Suzanne Morikawa
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.
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These are carpenter ants, Camponotus semitestaceus, as identified by UC Davis 2020 alumnus and ant researcher Brendon Boudinot, an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute of Zoology and Evolutionary Research at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. (Photo taken in Vacaville, Calif. by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Bees Are Your Buddies; Ants Are Your Friends

May 17, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
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.
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Nutrition Policy Institute News: Article

California parents value School Meals for All and offer suggestions to strengthen school meal programs

May 17, 2023
By Danielle Lee, Wendi Gosliner, Lorrene D Ritchie
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...
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Young girl wearing a two piece outfit poses for the camera.
Employee Spotlights: Article

Communicator Sope celebrates Samoan culture, building community

May 16, 2023
By Saoimanu Sope
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.
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