The Harvest for Neighbors project is a Master Gardener project to:

●    Encourage backyard gardeners to plant an extra row in their gardens and share that extra produce with local food pantries

●    Reduce food waste by ensuring fruits and vegetables grown locally get used

●    Introduce more people to gardening, sustainability, and best practices.

It’s spring and time to be thinking about what you’re going to plant in your spring/summer garden. For most of us... READ MORE...

CalFresh Healthy Living, UCCE (CFHL, UCCE) has been an integral part of JobTrain, a nonprofit education and training institution located in Menlo Park, for over eight years. JobTrain provides career training in medical assisting, culinary arts, certified nursing assistant (CNA), carpentry, building maintenance, and IT support and services, enabling students to move out of unemployment and poverty and into careers and self-sufficiency.

Based on 2018 SNAP-Ed figures, 59% of all San Mateo County adults are obese or overweight and an estimated 68,000 county residents are food insecure. To address these health concerns among the JobTrain students, CFHL, UCCE facilitates a four-part series... READ MORE...

We are pleased to announce the (near) completion of our new Manure Composting Bunker (woo-hoo)! This project was initiated and funded in part by the San Mateo County Resource Conservation District (RCD) in partnership with UC Agriculture and Natural Resources and Elkus Ranch.

The project site - approx. 1,000 SF - is hard to miss as it graces the side of our upper barn and includes a (3) stall bunker with the capacity to house roughly 5,500 CF of“aging to perfection” livestock compost. This effort moves our compost piles away from their current location... READ MORE...

The second UC Climate Stewards Instructor Training graduated 20 new instructors on February 25, 2021. These instructors, including several from organizations around the Bay Area (i.e., Santa Clara County Parks, San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, and Oakland Zoo), spent the last month work-shopping their climate communication and education skills. Over the next several months, they will put together their local UC Climate Stewards courses that will be offered toward the end of 2021. READ MORE...