Welcome to UCCE Central Sierra

The University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) is your bridge between local issues and the research expertise of the University of California.

The Central Sierra Cooperative Extension serves Amador, Calaveras, Tuolumne and El Dorado counties.

Our volunteers are great!

4-H Youth Development

Food Preservaton

Home Gardening

We have a great group of volunteers that are dedicated to the UC Cooperative Extension. This past year they donated thousands of hours in building leaders for tomorrow through the 4-H Youth Development Program; teaching safe food processing to people out in our communities through the Master Food Preserver Program; and, teaching home gardening to the people of our communities through the Master Gardener Program.

UCCE News

Leaving crop residues in the field improves water use efficiency
Posted 5/23/2012 - Managing crop residues to essentially make them disappear has been the norm in California agriculture. But a growing body of research, and experience with conservation tillage on thousands of acres of Central Valley farmland, is showing that reducing...

UCCE launches Northern California obesity study, 'Naturalist' program
Posted 5/22/2012 - UC Cooperative Extension nutrition researchers are in the process of selecting five schools each from Shasta and Butte counties to pilot a nutrition and extension program that university researchers will study to learn how to motivate kids to choose...

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Upcoming Events

Event Name	Date
Fire Adapted Communities in Tahoe Webinar 1 - Defensible space	5/25/2012
Tahoma Clean Up Day	5/26/2012
2012 State 4-H Field Day	5/26/2012

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