By Miranda Capriotti and Katie Johnson SUMMARY During the 20182019 school year, UCCE CalFresh Healthy Living Nutrition Educators and El Dorado County farms partnered to bring local produce to Harvest of the Month tastings with kindergarten through 5th grade students at Camino Elementary School.
CalFresh Healthy Living, University of California collaborated with Children's Storybook Garden & Museum in Kings County to engage twenty-two 4th-grade classes from Hanford Elementary School District in fun, educational, and interactive activities about day-to-day life during the 1800s.
Los nios de la primaria Jones en el condado de San Bernardino estaban sorprendidos en su clase de jardinera, sera posible que de una semilla diminuta pudiera nacer el alimento? Miren sus semillas e imaginen que adentro va a brotar una planta de lechuga que se podrn comer no es increble?
Before the beginning of this school year, Calaveras Unified School District Food Services partnered with local nutrition programs to look for ways to support healthy eating among the district's roughly 2,800 students.
On September 12, 2019, CalFresh Healthy Living at University of California (CFHL,UC) participated in the Healthy Snack Day, a Statewide Day of Action in California, to raise awareness about healthy snacking.
Summer is finally over and students at Loma Vista Middle School in Alvord Unified have returned to start a new school year. The student garden club held their first meeting on August 22, 2019.
Parents of new and returning students at Arizona Middle School in Alvord Unified were greeted by University of California Cooperative Extension Master Gardener, Eva Mayer and CalFresh Healthy Living-UC Program Supervisor, Claudia Carlos during the back to school night on August 22, 2019.
We are so excited to announce our partnership with the Kiwanis Early Riser Club of Yuba City. This partnership will allow us to provide six special education classroom teachers with mobile kitchens to help with integrating important life skills into their daily curriculum.
Real progress has been made in tackling the epidemic of childhood obesity since the first California Childhood Obesity Conference was held 20 years ago, but there is more work to be done.
