UC Davis |

Craft-brewing leader gives $1M to enhance UC Davis brewing facility

The gift from Carlos Alvarez, founder and owner of The Gambrinus Co., will fund new brewing and laboratory equipment at UC Davis to create the brewery of the future.
KQED Bay Area Bites |

UC Berkeley's student-run garden offers urban oasis to students and community

Established in 1971 by a group of students shortly after the first Earth Day, the student garden at Walnut and Virginia streets offers an urban oasis in North Berkeley.
San Francisco Chronicle |

Running dry: How the drought is forging a new California

This article about the impact of California's drought quotes Jay Famiglietti of UC Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Peter Moyle of UC Davis.
San Francisco Chronicle |

Op-ed: California drought: Charge true cost of agricultural water

UC Berkeley biometeorology professor Dennis Baldocchi, who studies the water use of California crops and ecosystems, writes that California needs a systemwide approach to managing water for agriculture.
UC Davis Science Policy and Communication Group |

UC Davis: Where do farmers get their seeds?

As part of a UC Global Food Initiative project to communicate agricultural science, UC Davis grad students and postdocs produced this video to help explain why farmers may choose to buy new seeds every year rather than save seeds.
UC Santa Barbara |

An appetite for food reform

First group of UC Global Food Initiative fellows at UC Santa Barbara is studying food waste on campus, food insecurity among students.
Heritage Radio Network |

Hunger and food insecurity in the LGBT community

The Williams Institute at UCLA Law co-sponsored an event with leaders in New York City on hunger in the LGBT community; listen to the conversation.
San Francisco Chronicle |

Back to the Roots expands, raises $2 million from luminaries

Back to the Roots co-founders Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez started the company while UC Berkeley seniors as the outgrowth of a fraternity kitchen experiment.
UC Santa Cruz |

Dwindling fish linked to excess nutrients

Nutrient-rich runoff from land takes a toll on fish nurseries in coastal estuaries and subsequently on commercial fisheries.
UC Riverside |

Conference seeks to strengthen local food and urban agriculture infrastructure

Several UC Riverside researchers to attend 2nd annual GrowRIVERSIDE Conference, June 11-13.
KQED Bay Area Bites |

California Matters: Mark Bittman's online video series premieres

The UC series plunges into an array of food-related issues, beginning with urban foraging and wild edibles.
University of California |

Mark Bittman: California Matters premieres

Dandelion, anyone? 'Mark Bittman: California Matters' premieres with a look at urban foraging and the nutritional value of wild edibles.