Youth Development

Ever eaten a bug? Sure you have. Insect fragments are in just about all the foods we eat, from chocolate to coffee to wheat flour to pizza sauce to beer and more. An insect control company estimates that we eat, on the average, 140,000 "bug bits" every year. (See Business Insider.

The Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, has scheduled nine special weekend open houses for the academic year.

A well-nourished population requires that all members of society have access to sufficient amounts of nutritious food. Unfortunately, food insecurity continues to be a staggering problem throughout the world with negative consequences in terms of health and well-being.

Santa Rosa Valley 4-H is based out of Camarillo and meets on the 2nd Wednesday of every month at 6:00 p.m. at the Santa Rosa County Park or at the Santa Rosa Valley Club House. The club leaders are Karen Ellrott and Jenny Willoughby.

As a child growing up in Dixon, she remembers picking bell peppers and sorting tomatoes with her farmworker-parents and siblings. They also labored in fruit-cutting sheds in nearby Winters.

Sonoma County 4-H has been working to expand its programs to better serve youth and their families in our community.

There's something magical about exercise. It impacts the body in many different ways, and all of them are good.

What a wonderful idea! The Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis boasts one of the world's largest tardigrade (water bear) collections, and what Lynn Kimsey wants to do, will certainly add to that point.

Elvira Galvan Hack, student academic advisor for the animal biology major, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will be honored at the UC Davis Staff Assembly's Citation for Excellence Program on Friday, Sept. 6 on the Moss Patio, Walter A. Buehler Alumni Center.

We are having a great time in D.C. celebrating Margaret Sissy"Sugarman from Olivenhain Valley 4-H, earning the Congressional Award Gold Medal. Congressman Mike Levin presented her with the Gold Medal in a medal ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C.