Youth Development

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.

The California 4-H Foundation is proud to recognize Mary Lash for her lifelong dedication to the 4-H program. Mary's 4-H membership began in 1938 with projects including home economics, sewing and raising vegetables on her family farm in Downey, California.

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Do you work at or service a school or multiple schools? If so, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) is seeking your input about the Healthy Schools Act.

Yes, there are day-flying moths. And some of them are quite attractive. Take the Stiriini moth, Annaphila astrologa. We saw our first-ever last March in our pollinator garden.