Cooking & Food Safety

Want to grow raspberries in Texas? This free factsheet teaches you how to grow raspberries using new shade and primocane strategies. Download now and get growing!

Phomopsis affects grapes in vineyards across Texas—especially in wet, humid regions. This 2-page factsheet gives you expert-backed strategies to identify, manage, and prevent it. Download your free copy now.

This 48-page free, downloadable publication provides crawfish producers information on successfully raising crawfish in Texas.

These proven beef quality practices are simply better methods of doing the same jobs you’re already doing.

The Texas 4-H Family & Community Health Program provides a variety of resources and opportunities to learn about nutrition, interior design, consumer education and more.

Balancing Food & Play (grades 3rd-5th) was developed to address children’s health issues by developing lifelong healthy behaviors through nutrition, physical activity, and family engagement.

This food handlers certification course, accredited with the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), will allow food service employees, cottage food business operators, or others to meet the requirement of having a food handler or food safety course. Participants will learn basic food safety practices for the preparation of food and can print a food handlers card.

Turn your home kitchen into a legal cottage food business. This 45-minute online course is designed to educate those wanting to start a cottage food operation in Texas. It covers the 2025 Texas Cottage Food Operations Law, food safety, and labeling rules. Learn what you can sell, where to sell it, and how to stay compliant.

This course meets the training requirement related to animal food hygiene and food safety and address the following: FSMA requirements including training and documentation; Importance of employee health and personal hygiene; and Responsibilities of supervisors, management and employees involved feed manufacturing.