Celebrate National Caviar Day with Salmon Roe Caviar
Alaska salmon provide more than steaks for the grill or fillets for the smoker. The roe from any of Alaska’s…
Eat your vegetables!
Summer is a wonderful time to try new vegetables, especially when they are in season and can be grown locally….
Learn about composting!
Composting is a great way to reduce waste and add nutrients to your garden. Extension has a number of composting…
Seed Starting and Transplanting
The use of transplants enables the gardener to grow warm season vegetables to maturity outdoors, hasten maturity of cool-season vegetables…
May is National Egg Month
May is National Egg Month! We have lots of resources for those who have an egg-laying flock. Safe Egg Handling…
16 Easy Steps to Gardening in Alaska
There are lots of factors that go into starting a garden. If this is your first year gardening or if…
Raising pigs in Alaska
It’s national pig day! With higher meat prices there is more interest in home raising pigs for pork. One pig…
National Chili Day
Today is National Chili Day! Enjoy this recipe for Chile Con Carne made with dried pinto beans! Chile Con Carne…
Poinsettias
Originally published in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner on November 29, 2017. Ho, ho, ho! It’s not quite December, but this…
National Eat a Cranberry Day!
November 23 is National Eat a Cranberry Day. Given that this year this day is also shared with Thanksgiving, many…
Thawing Turkey
Don’t let your holiday be ruined by food-borne illness. Make sure you thaw your turkey in a way that will…
Protected: August 12 is national potato day
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