The Organic Center |
Q&A with Claire Kremen, UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley's Claire Kremen discusses biodiversity and organic farming.
UC Davis |
Student-athletes share scrambler recipes in dining commons
UC Davis women's soccer and men's golf teams square off in friendly competition Feb. 4 that promotes good nutrition.
ANR |
Comprehensive program helps improve children's eating habits
Obesity has decreased among Sacramento County school children since Shaping Healthy Choices implemented.
UC Irvine |
Students step up to address food issues
UC Global Food Initiative student fellows discuss projects at UC Irvine open house.
San Francisco Chronicle |
They can pickle that: UC now has a master food preserver program
Beginning March 21, UC Cooperative Extension will offer the second session of its Master Food Preserver volunteer program (its first class graduated this past fall).
Los Angeles Times |
What do health experts see in our near future?
What's in store for your health in the next five years? Doctors, authors, researchers and more weigh in, including UCSF's Robert Lustig and Marion Nestle, visiting journalism professor at UC Berkeley.
UC Berkeley |
Lentils, a mighty force for improving the food system
'Lentil Underground,' a new book by a recent Ph.D. and ongoing researcher at UC Berkeley, makes the case that lentils could help restore American farmland and farmers whose soil and profits have been depleted by decades of industrial agriculture.
UC Office of the President |
UC launches food blog
The blog called, UC Food Observer, is a daily selection of must-read news on food policy, nutrition, agriculture and more.
Fast Company |
Why the world's Salad Bowl wants to go high tech
Agricultural producers in the Salinas Valley are working to rely less on people and more on technology. UC Davis agricultural economist J. Edward Taylor is quoted.
Sacramento Bee |
Mead is creating a buzz at UC Davis
Where else to study mead but UC Davis? It’s already got a winery and brewery. It may soon get itself to a meadery.
San Francisco Chronicle |
'Lentil Underground,' by Liz Carlisle
In 'Lentil Underground,' Liz Carlisle (a Michael Pollan protege and fellow at UC Berkeley’s Center for Diversified Farming Systems) elevates the oft-ignored legume to heroic game-changer.
UC Irvine |
Chemists find a way to unboil eggs
It may not improve your cooking, but it could reduce costs for cancer treatments, food production and other segments of biotech.