Tips for Gardening on Denali
This column is in memorium to Stephen Brown, who died unexpectedly in his sleep at his home in Palmer, Alaska,…
Respect for others shows good character
By Marla Lowder Everyone wants to be respected, but do we respect others? We have to earn others’ respect if…
By Marisa McKasson UAF Tribes Extension In Nikolski, a small village on the western end of Umnak Island in the…
Preserving veggies from a garden or your weekly Costco run
By Leslie Shallcross I was in the sunny Southwest two weeks ago, leaving while many Alaska gardens and greenhouses were…
Plant breeding at home: A brief introduction
By Laura Weingartner Jim Myers, a professor of vegetable breeding and genetics at the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon…
How much of your food can you hunt, fish, gather, and grow and eat?
By Heidi Rader One of the things I’ve long been curious about is how much food Alaskans grow, hunt, fish…
Growing raspberries in Alaska: What you need to know
By Heidi Rader Most gardeners I know tend to be fairly haphazard with their raspberry patches, myself included. This laxity…
Citizen science offers lessons in understanding green-up
By Julie Stricker Interior Alaska’s long winters are the impetus for a lot of long-running citizen science. Most famous is…
Citizen science project tracks slugs as they slither north
By Julie Stricker It’s never fun to walk into your garden on a sunny Fairbanks summer day only to find…
Produce Safety Alliance Grower Training
Do you grow fruits or vegetables? Do you sell them? Do you give them away? Then make sure your produce…
Don’t let voles get the best of your garden
By Julie Riley I have a meadow vole apartment complex in my back yard and a front lawn decimated by…
Alaska 4-H Salad Garden Kit Giveaway
We have 30 salad garden kits leftover from our pick-up days last weekend. If you missed out on registration, now’s…