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The $1 million UC Cooperative Extension Presidential Chair for California Grown Rice has been awarded to Whitney Brim-DeForest, UCCE rice advisor for Sutter, Yuba, Placer, Sacramento and Butte counties.

The $1 million UC Cooperative Extension Presidential Chair for California Grown Rice has been awarded to Whitney Brim-DeForest, UCCE rice advisor for Sutter, Yuba, Placer, Sacramento and Butte counties.

April 18, 2018 Seven UC ANR Advisors along with UCD professor, Will Horwath, and CE Specialist Jeff Mitchell, have been awarded two new projects by CDFA's Healthy Soils Program.

Over the past year, UC CalFresh Butte Cluster in collaboration with community partners, and school site staff, parents and volunteers has executed several new stencil and mural projects at school sites in Butte, Glenn, Colusa, Sutter and Yuba Counties.

VP Glenda Humiston, AVP Wendy Powers and several UC ANR representatives visited more than 30 congressional offices in March to brief lawmakers and staffers on the latest agriculture and natural resources research and outreach benefiting Californians.

Barry Elementary School is a small (K-8th grade) school with just under 600 students located in Sutter County. In September of 2017, Butte Cluster's UC CalFresh Nutrition Education Program partnered with Ms.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) is a federally funded grant program that supports evidence-based nutrition education and obesity prevention interventions and projects for persons eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) through complementar...

The Butte Cluster Nutrition Education programs have significantly contributed to University of California Agriculture and Natural Resource's Healthy Families and Communities Strategic Initiative through the coordination and implementation of the UC CalFresh Nutrition Education Program (NEP) and the...

EFNEP HISTORY & FUNDING The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) began as an Alabama pilot project in response to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) poverty and hunger concerns.

Over the past twenty years, the frequency of family dinners has significantly declined even though research has shown that children who share family dinners three or more times per week are less likely to be overweight and more likely to perform better academically, eat healthier foods, and have bet...