Meet Enedina Neves, founder of Fire Foods Meal Prep in Downtown Fresno! When an unexpected shutdown threatened her business, Enedina didn’t give up. She rebuilt—and the F3 Local food team was there to help get Fire Foods back on track.

The first phase of development launched for a long-awaited community kitchen for Fresno’s mobile food vendors, starting with the demolition of a property on Fresno Street where local nonprofit Cultiva La Salud plans to build up the kitchen over the next year.

UC Merced researchers are launching a project that could change how Central Valley growers harness the sun’s energy, using a family of light-active molecules developed at the university to design smarter agricultural greenhouses.