Youth Development

Megna Nayar is a 4-H Alumna and former State Ambassador from Santa Clara County. She writes about how being a State Leadership Conference (SLC) Planning Team member is a rewarding, but challenging role.

The FIRA USA ag tech conference, Oct. 22-24 in Woodland, showcases the latest robotics and automation innovations. A special breakfast during the event will support tomorrow's leaders, scientists and engineers who will realize the potential of those technologies.

Nutrition Policy Institute's Kassandra Bacon will present with CACFP Roundtable's Samantha Kay-Daleiden Marshall at the 2024 Annual CACFP Conference at Universal Studios, CA. The conference focuses on the growth of the Child and Adult Care Food Program, commonly known as CACFP.

How many kids have you seen running and screaming every time they encounter an insect? Maybe not so much when it's a lady beetle (aka ladybug), or a butterfly.

One of the many things that make University of California Cooperative Extension in Imperial County unique is its close proximity to the U.S.-Mexico border.

What's more fun that netting a butterfly? Netting two (or more) butterflies. UC Davis doctoral candidate and dragonfly researcher Christofer Brothers showed youngsters how to net butterflies--paper butterflies, that is--at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on Sept. 28.

The federal Child and Adult Care Food Program, commonly known as CACFP, provides tiered reimbursements to family childcare homes to ensure children in low-income communities have access to healthy meals.

National 4-H Week is Oct. 7-12, 2024. To celebrate, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors will be recognizing the significant benefits to local youth provided by the UC Cooperative Extension 4-H Youth Development Program in San Diego County with a proclamation on Tuesday, Oct. 8.

A 2023 Arizona survey of food service directors and school nutrition staff identified the effects of the move away from free school meals for all students in the 2022-2023 academic year.

When Tracy Schohr volunteered in her son's pre-K class a couple years ago, she was stunned to find out that only two of the 20 children had ever been around a tractor. And this was in the rural Butte County community of Gridley, in the heart of California's rice-growing region.