Food Blog

Native Americans suffer from the highest rates of food insecurity, poverty and diet-related disease in the United States. A new study finds that Native American communities could improve their food security with a greater ability to hunt, fish, gather and preserve their own food.

Enjoying a tasty sunflower seed snack? Cooking with sunflower oil? Thank a California sunflower seed grower for producing the hybrid seed that's used for planting sunflower crops throughout the United States and the world, for confectionery and oil seed production.

Try topping your salads with some tasty garbanzo beans this summer.

The food production environment introduces many potential points of contamination risk from the soil to the table.

Update: 2020 classes will be held as follows. For more information and registration, click here for a calendar and scroll down to the preferred class. Date City Time Location January 15 Fairfield 1-4pm UCCE Solano County Meeting Room 501 Texas Street.