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  • A large pile of split birch and other firewood

    February webinars focus on chainsaw safety and cutting firewood

    January 18, 2025

    Wood is an important fuel source in Alaska. In February, the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Cooperative Extension Service will host three free webinars on cutting wood safely and keeping chainsaws in good working condition.

  • A smiling man extends a hand with a slug peeking over his fingers

    Learn fun, fascinating facts about Alaska slugs

    January 15, 2025

    For the past three years, Joey Slowik has focused on preventing slug damage to crops. Along the way, Slowik, an integrated pest management technician with the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Cooperative Extension Service, has uncovered a lot of odd and interesting information about the often-reviled gastropods.

  • A man in outdoor gear with a rifle over his shoulder smiles in front of a backdrop of mountains and ocean

    Learn skills to take venison from field to plate

    January 10, 2025

    Venison is a local favorite on dinner tables in Southeast Alaska. Ian Derauf, who has been hunting and cooking wild game since he was a teenager, will lead a two-day workshop in Sitka on transforming meat from a Sitka black-tailed deer into tasty meals.

  • Green plants grow indoors under artificial light.

    Statewide webinar introduces indoor hydroponic growing methods

    January 09, 2025

    Learn the basics of growing plants indoors with a hydroponic system in a free statewide webinar, "Indoor Plants 101 for Hydroponic Home Growers," offered by the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Cooperative Extension Service.

  • A smiling woman fills a basket with native grasses with a body of water in the background.

    Traditional healer to lead workshop on herbalism

    January 07, 2025

    Join traditional healer Molly Cerridwen in a free webinar, "Introduction to Herbalism," sponsored by the Alaska Tribes Extension, part of the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Cooperative Extension Service. Cerridwen will share a few basic techniques for using plants' healing properties, with examples of how she uses them in her own life and practice.

  • A man adjusts the round door of a large freeze-dryer

    Webinar to discuss holiday food safety

    December 10, 2024

    Learn how to keep yourself and your family safe in a free online presentation given by Leif Albertson, a health, home and family development agent with the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Cooperative Extension Service. Albertson will summarize the proper cooking, cooling and reheating practices for keeping dishes and families safe.

  • Two women pull potatoes in a field with farm buildings and mountains in the background.

    Chef Amy to discuss healing and Alaska Native traditional foods

    November 25, 2024

    Join the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Cooperative Extension Service and chef Amy Foote for a lunch and learn session titled "Finding Healing in Alaska Native Traditional Foods." Foote is director of cuisine for NANA Management Services and formerly was the executive chef at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage.

  • A brilliant sun shines over a hilly and snowy landscape with ski tracks shown across the foreground

    Explore the physics of snow in statewide webinar

    November 22, 2024

    Learn about snow physics and how snowdrifts form -- and why it is possible to walk on a snowdrift - in a statewide webinar hosted by the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Cooperative Extension Service.

  • 4-H shooting sports rifle instructor training set in Kodiak

    November 21, 2024

    Registered 4-H leaders who wish to become shooting sports instructors in Alaska have an opportunity to complete a two-part training course in January 2025.

  • A woman wearing a reflective safety vest sprays plants on the side of the road with a hose attached to containers on a truck.

    2025 pesticide applicator training classes scheduled for January, April

    November 21, 2024

    A three-day certified pesticide applicator training course is scheduled for Jan. 28-30, with a second course planned for April 22-24. Both courses will be taught by the University Alaska ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Cooperative Extension Service via Zoom and are available statewide.

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