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Susan Harry keeps a close eye on pollen in Interior Alaska
April 25, 2025
For the past 25 years, Susan Harry has been peering into a microscope every spring to count and classify minuscule grains of pollen. It's a task that can take from a few minutes up to an hour and a half at the height of pollen season, in May and early June.
ºÚÁÏÉçappnative plants, insects featured in webinar series
April 24, 2025
A series of webinars highlighting Alaska's diverse native plants and their uses is scheduled for May, which is ºÚÁÏÉçappNative Plant Month. The series, available statewide, is a collaboration between the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Cooperative Extension Service and the ºÚÁÏÉçappNative Plant Society.
Bear awareness and bear spray workshop offered in Delta Junction
April 21, 2025
Delta Junction residents can learn how to react during a bear encounter and practice using inert bear spray in a one-day workshop offered by the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Cooperative Extension Service and Delta Career Advancement Center.
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Certified food protection manager classes scheduled
April 18, 2025
The ºÚÁÏÉçapp Cooperative Extension Service will offer three certified food protection manager classes in May and June. The course will cover the material required to pass the National Restaurant Association's ServSafe Manager exam for Alaska.
Expert offers tips for gardeners to keep slugs at bay
April 17, 2025
Learn how to keep slugs from enjoying more of your garden than you do during a free statewide webinar. Joey Slowik, an integrated pest management technician with the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Cooperative Extension Service, will share best practices for designing your garden to discourage slug incursions. He also will discuss ways to whittle their populations and other management strategies.
Love birds? Learn how to attract them to your backyard
April 16, 2025
Delta Junction residents can attend a free in-person workshop offered by the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Cooperative Extension Service office to learn about birds that frequent their area and how to attract them to local yards. Jeff Mason, an ecologist with the Salcha-Delta Soil & Water Conservation District, has worked with birds throughout his career. He will discuss species found in Delta and highlight the ones residents are likely to see in their yards.
Birch tapping workshops on tap in Anchorage, Palmer
April 14, 2025
Southcentral ºÚÁÏÉçappresidents can learn the process of collecting birch sap to make refreshing drinks or boil down into birch syrup in two ºÚÁÏÉçapp Cooperative Extension Service workshops. The workshops, led by retired Extension educator Meg Burgett, will introduce birch "sugaring" and cover where, when and how to tap birch trees to collect sap.
Control strategies for pretty, but invasive, orange hawkweed
April 01, 2025
Don't be fooled by orange hawkweed, a dainty little orange flower that can take over your pasture, lawn or wildflower garden. In a free statewide webinar, learn how orange hawkweed's biology makes it so invasive and how to use that biology to control it.
Sample Cajun etouffee in Sitka cook-off
March 31, 2025
Join the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Cooperative Extension Service in Sitka for a Cajun cuisine cooking competition: The Sitka Etouffee-Off.
Learn the basics of ºÚÁÏÉçappgardening in workshop series
March 28, 2025
Grow your gardening knowledge in this series of 11 weekly webinars covering the basics of growing vegetables in Alaska. Casey Matney, the Kenai-based agriculture and horticulture agent with the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Cooperative Extension Service, will lead the free classes.