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Webinar series focuses on creating, reimagining and maintaining yards
June 26, 2024
Learn how to manage weeds, turn your yard into a meadow, manage soil, and create and maintain a beautiful lawn in a series of free, online workshops hosted by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service. The series is available statewide.
Food preservation, healthy living classes planned for Ketchikan
June 26, 2024
Three days of classes on healthy living, food safety and food preservation are planned for Ketchikan. Sarah Lewis, a University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service health, home and family development agent, will be in Ketchikan from July 12-14 to teach the classes and to test pressure canner gauges.
Health, food preservation workshops planned for Southeast Alaska
June 19, 2024
A University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service agent will travel by boat to nine communities in Southeast Alaska to teach classes on healthy living, food safety and food preservation.
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Registration open for 4-H Cloverbud Day Camp
June 14, 2024
The Tanana District 4-H program will host Cloverbud Day Camp at Georgeson Botanical Garden, located on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus.
Online class to cover a range of food preservation techniques
June 05, 2024
Learn how to get the most out of the food you have grown, harvested or bought during a free one-hour overview of food preservation methods.
Citizen science offers lessons in understanding Fairbanks' climate
May 06, 2024
Interior Alaska's long winters are the impetus for a lot of long-running citizen science. The Nenana Ice Classic is a 107-year-long climate record for Interior Alaska. But it's not the only citizen science effort in Fairbanks, which also boasts multi-decadal records for predicting green-up, when birch sap will start flowing, and when to stock up on allergy medications to get ready for pollen season.
Food preservation workshops scheduled for Yakutat
April 17, 2024
Three days of workshops with sessions covering water bath and pressure canning, pickling and fermenting vegetables, and making fruit leather are scheduled for April 25-27 in Yakutat.
Citizen science project tracks slugs as they slither north
April 15, 2024
Cutworms, voles and moose are common garden invaders in Interior Alaska, but, in the past decade, a pest that frequently eats its way through salad greens and other plants in Southcentral and Southeast Alaska has also made its appearance in gardens north of the Alaska Range: slugs.
StrongPeople training class offered in Fairbanks
April 03, 2024
A workshop in Fairbanks will teach people how to lead a popular exercise program for midlife and older adults in Alaska communities.
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Pesticide applicator training classes scheduled for April 23-25
April 01, 2024
A three-day certified pesticide applicator training course is scheduled for April 23-25. It will be taught by the University Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service via Zoom and is available statewide.