Youth Development

Hands-on crafts, farm animals and fresh organic produce brought the Santa Clara County community to the Martial Cottle Park Harvest Festival in San Jose Oct. 6.

A teen leader involved in the UC Cooperative Extension 4-H program in Santa Clara County was featured in a Google blog and video in honor of National Youth Science Day.

Richard Mahacek, UC Cooperative Extension 4-H youth development advisor in Merced County from 1976 to 2012, will be inducted into the National 4-H Hall of Fame on Oct. 19 for his lifetime achievements and contributions to 4-H.

Is there a limit to how long we humans can live? Jeanne Calment of France (1875-1997), who died at age 122 (and 164 days), holds the record of the longest confirmed human lifespan.

It was not just people who attended the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven open house at the University of California, Davis last Saturday. So did honey bees, carpenter bees, bumble bees, metallic green sweat bees, Gulf Fritillary butterflies and cabbage white butterflies...

UC ANR programs collaborate to integrate best practices in environmental learning and stewardship to expand programming and impacts throughout the state Project Learning Tree (PLT) is an international, award-winning environmental education program, providing professional development training and wor...

Five quilted dragonflies skimming the wall. Eager hands cradling an orchid mantis. Eyes darting toward a hornet's nest. That set the scene at the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology's three-hour open house, themed "Crafty Insects.

The Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, rocks! Directed by Lynn Kimsey, UC Davis professor of entomology, the insect museum is named for noted entomologist Richard M. Bohart.

If you've often wished you could clone yourself to be able to attend two events on the same day at the University of California, Davis, not to worry. Two open houses on Saturday, Sept.

Photographer Allan Jones of Davis exudes patience, skill and talent from the moment he enters the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre bee friendly garden operated by the University of California, Davis, Department of Entomology and Nematology on Bee Biology Road.