Nutrition and health education

Dining with Diabetes

Build practical skills to help manage diabetes through smart cooking and eating and simple lifestyle changes. Learn how to prepare healthy flavorful meals in four hands-on sessions.

In four weekly hands-on sessions in our Freeze It! program, you’ll learn safe, research-based techniques for freezing foods, which will help you cut down on food waste, stretch your grocery dollars and enjoy your meals safely.

Little Roots, Big Harvest: Homesteading Together

Learn homesteading skills like gardening, making cleaning products, animal care and food preservation—blended with wellness, safety and sustainability—in-person and online.

Cooking Matters

Eating healthy doesn’t have to break the bank. Our Cooking Matters programs teach smart shopping strategies and healthy cooking skills that can help you prepare nutritious, low-cost meals and snacks at home.

Preserve It Fresh, Preserve It Safe: 2026, No. 1 (January/February)

Preserve It Fresh, Preserve It Safe: 2025, No. 6 (November/December)

A Taste of Missouri — September — Cherry

A Taste of Missouri — August — Cantaloupe

September 5, 2025 - June 1, 2026

Strength in Numbers

November 6, 2025 - January 26, 2026

Stay Strong, Stay Healthy - Level 3

December 5, 2025 - February 18, 2026

Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention - Owensville - December

Livestock producers face health threats from ticks

November 5, 2025

Pucker up for persimmon, the first-frost fruit

November 4, 2025

Missouri farmer adjusts to life with alpha-gal syndrome

October 27, 2025

MU Extension expands food waste reduction program in rural Missouri

October 22, 2025

The Impact of SNAP-Ed on Health, Community and Economy (PDF)

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education (SNAP-Ed), delivered through University of Missouri Extension, reaches over 1.2 million Missourians annually with hands-on nutrition education and community partnership. SNAP-Ed delivers a $61.2 million economic impact through health care savings, improved educational outcomes, and workforce development.

Office of HOPE

The Office of HOPE is a consortium between MU Extension, School of Medicine, Sinclair School of Nursing, and College of Health Sciences focused on improving healthcare outcomes in rural communities across the State of Missouri.

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Provides consumers with a broad range of nutrition information, including tips, videos, articles and recipes.

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Foodborne Outbreaks

During a multistate foodborne disease outbreak, CDC serves as lead coordinator between public health partners to detect the outbreak, define its size and extent, and to identify the source. The goal is to investigate and control outbreaks, and to learn how to prevent similar outbreaks from happening in the future.