Tag: FCS

Meet the UF/IFAS Extension FCS Agent for Miami Dade County

by Jessica Alfonso-Rodriguez
December 22, 2025

About Me I'm happy to introduce myself as your new UF/IFAS Extension Family & Consumer Sciences (FCS) Agent in Miami-Dade County. If you're not familiar with FCS, it is a field of study that combines the science and art of living well ... READ MORE

Category: Food Safety, Health & Nutrition, Money Matters, UF/IFAS Extension, Work & Life
Tags: FCS, Financial Literacy, Food Entrepreneurship, Health, Jessica Alfonso- Rodriguez, Miami-Dade, Nutrition, South Florida, UF/IFAS Miami-Dade Extension, Wellness

2025 JAMAS! Learning Never Tasted So Good!

by Jessica M. Ryals and Trisha AldridgeAvatar photo
September 26, 2025

Florida’s citrus industry has faced serious and compounding challenges in recent years. Diseases like citrus greening (HLB), hurricanes, flooding, freezes, and competition from overseas markets have resulted in citrus trees and the citrus ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Events, Food Safety, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Agriculture, Doug Caldwell, FCS, JAMAS, SWFL, Tropical Fruit, UF/IFAS Extension Collier County
amber daniels, family and consumer sciences agent, stands beside an office sign in front of the uf/ifas extension sarasota county building. [credit: uf/ifas extension sarasota county]

Introducing the Sarasota County Family and Consumer Sciences Agent

by Amber Daniels
September 24, 2025

We are excited to welcome Amber Daniels as the new FCS Extension Agent in Sarasota County. Amber joins us after over a decade of career experience in food assistance programming, nutrition education, public health, health coaching, and weight ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition, UF/IFAS Extension, Work & Life
Tags: Amber Daniels, Family And Consumer Sciences, FCS, Health, Nutrition, Pgm_FCS
food safety frozen peas

Don’t Eat the Frozen Peas (unless they were cooked first!)

by Katherine Allen
September 26, 2023

I grew up in restaurants, I love to cook, and I teach commercial food safety.  On a recent webinar explaining the most current food code updates, I learned that frozen foods are not created equally. Did you know that if a commercially prepared ... READ MORE

Category: Food Safety, UF/IFAS Extension, , Work & Life
Tags: FCS, Food Safety, Frozen Foods, Suwannee County Extension, Topic Tuesday, UF/IFAS Extension Suwannee County
White Ibis birds in a wetland.

ALL THINGS HOUSING IN THE CENTRAL DISTRICT.

by nladd
April 16, 2023

2023 Central District All Faculty Symposium - Family and Consumer Sciences L. Hamilton, UF/IFAS Extension Volusia County, Deland, FL, J. Rodriguez, UF/IFAS Extension Orange County, Orlando, FL, J. Anderson, UF/IFAS Extension Orange County, ... READ MORE

Category: Home Management, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: 2023, 2023 Central District All Faculty Symposium, Central District Symposium, Extension, Family And Consumer Sciences, FCS, Flagler County, G. Benitez, Giovanna Benitez, H. Ayers, Hernando County, Hillary Ayers, Housing, IFAS, Ifas Extension, J. Anderson, J. Gomez, J. Rodriguez, Jana Anderson, Jenny Rodriguez, Johanna Gomez, L. Duncan, L. Hamilton, Lisa Hamilton, LuAnn Duncan, M. Thomas, Marion County, Melanie Thomas, Orange County, Osceola County, S. Taylor, Scott Taylor, St. John's County, Sumter County, UF/IFAS Extension Volusia County, Volusia County, W. Lynch, Wendy Lynch

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