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  • Closeup showing sap dripping from a tap drilled into a birch tree into a white bucket

    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.

  • A cluster of orange flowers, orange hawkweed, in a sunny field

    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.

  • A bowl of Cajun etouffee with a boiled crawfish on top

    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.

  • A zucchini plant blooms in an ºÚÁÏÉçappvegetable garden

    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.

  • A man with glasses and graying beard and hair looks into the camera on a snowy field.

    Making sense of Alaska's changing environment

    March 25, 2025

    Changes in Alaska's environment are evident all across the state, but the details vary greatly. In a webinar hosted by the Anchorage office of the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Cooperative Extension Service, UAF climate specialist Rick Thoman will share a broad overview of observed changes around Alaska, from snow and ice to heat and wildfire.

  • Registration open for three-day pesticide training course

    March 24, 2025

    A three-day online workshop, available statewide, is scheduled in April for people who wish to become certified pesticide applicators in Alaska. The classes are designed to help participants understand and pass the ºÚÁÏÉçappDepartment of Environmental Conservation exam.

  • A person cuts pieces of wood off a large stump in the Southeast ºÚÁÏÉçapprainforest

    Tree felling, chainsaw safety workshop on tap for Sitka

    March 21, 2025

    Glen Holt, a biomass technician with the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Cooperative Extension Service, will lead two free interactive sessions on basic tree cutting and chainsaw maintenance and repair in Sitka. Both sessions are free and in person.

  • A homemade chocolate cake with chocolate icing sprinkled with nuts

    Chocolate lovers workshop set in Sitka

    March 20, 2025

    Chocolate lovers in Sitka can gather to discuss the health benefits of chocolate and how to incorporate it into the diet -- in moderation. The ºÚÁÏÉçapp Cooperative Extension Service in Sitka is hosting the gathering, during which participants will also make and sample some chocolate-themed recipes.

  • A man in a hat stands in an ºÚÁÏÉçappapple orchard

    Expert to discuss growing apples, cherries, plums in Alaska

    March 19, 2025

    Alaskans interested in growing tree fruit such as apples, cherries and plums can join a free, statewide webinar with Mark Wolbers, president of the ºÚÁÏÉçappPioneer Fruit Growers Association.

  • A hand holding a small amount of feed barley

    Learn to grow grain crops in a backyard garden

    March 13, 2025

    You don't have to be a large-scale grain farmer to grow tasty, nutritious crops for you and your family. In a free webinar hosted by the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Cooperative Extension Service, learn how to grow hulled barley, wheat, rye, buckwheat, quinoa, dry peas, sunflowers and more in your backyard garden.

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