Extension Blog

Extension Blog

  • December 15, 2024

    By Leslie Shallcross A fragrant bowl of warm, homemade soup is the perfect meal on an Alaska winter night. Packed...

  • December 01, 2024

    By Art Nash As large as Alaska is, for regional energy independence it often depends on the quantity of nearby...

  • November 17, 2024

    Did you know the 51·çÁ÷¹ÙÍø Cooperative Extension Services has a program that teaches folks how to make...

  • November 05, 2024

    By Adrian Kohrt Safety in the kitchen is one of the most important things to consider in your house. Forty-eight...

  • October 07, 2024

    Jars full of canned vegetablesBy Leslie Shallcross I was in the sunny Southwest two weeks ago, leaving while many Alaska gardens and greenhouses were...

  • October 04, 2024

    — Theresa Isaac Another fantastic year of community potato harvest has been completed! On Monday, Sept. 30, Amy Foote, senior...

  • September 23, 2024

    Close-up image of two hands holding a pair of tweezers and a pea flower as they work to emasculate the flowerBy Laura Weingartner Jim Myers, a professor of vegetable breeding and genetics at the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon...

  • September 15, 2024

    A man in a red sweatshirt stands along a path with giant cabbages behind a fence lining one side of the pathBy Heidi Rader One of the things I’ve long been curious about is how much food Alaskans grow, hunt, fish...

  • September 09, 2024

    Yellow ribbon, yellow and orange hearts, pinned to clothesline against a white backgroundBy Reina Hasting As I see the leaves turning yellow, I know change is coming. Change in the amount of...

  • September 06, 2024

    Blue latex-gloved hands apply herbicide to a stump staining it aquamarineBy Julie Stricker In late August, another step was taken in the long process of weeding out popular but invasive...