Agrilife Extension Resources
We offer educational resources, including online certifications for Texas food handlers, on cooking and food safety. Whether you are a cottage food producer, a farmer’s market vendor or you are cooking for your family, our resources teach all Texans the basics of safe food handling, preparation, cooking, serving and storing.
Related Departments: Food Science & Technology, Nutrition
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These proven beef quality practices are simply better methods of doing the same jobs you’re already doing.
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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.
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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.
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HealthTalk Express is dedicated to helping people, in 30 minutes or less, learn about salient health topics related to preventable and common chronic conditions. The program provides individual courses on a variety of health topics, each containing relatable stories, relevant health data, and real ways for taking action to promote personal health and lower disease risk.
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The Dinner Tonight program aims to provide healthy recipes for Texans and increase self-efficacy in meal planning, healthy cooking techniques, and food safety.
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Extension agents and local health professionals deliver diabetes programs primarily face-to-face with virtual programming when necessary.
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Launched in September 2015 in the 27 southern counties of the state, Healthy South Texas focuses on reducing high impact diseases and their consequences.
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EFNEP helps young families and youth with limited resources, those at risk to suffer from hunger, food insecurity, and the lack of available support systems.
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The Food Safety Education Program aims to increase safe food handling practices at retail and consumer levels to reduce risk of food-borne illness.
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Preserving the Harvest is a program series that teaches ways to preserve foods with tested recipes and research-based methods, using “hands-on” activities to practice preservation skills.
