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Food preservation, healthy living classes offered in Anchorage
October 09, 2025
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Cooperative Extension Service and the Anchorage Museum's Seed Lab are offering five in-person food preservation and healthy living classes in Anchorage this month.
Biologist to discuss Alaska's bats in free webinar
October 08, 2025
An Alaska wildlife biologist will lead a free lunch-and-learn webinar on bats in Alaska hosted by the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Cooperative Extension Service. Arin Underwood, who works with the Threatened, Endangered and Diversity Program with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, will discuss Alaska's tiny flying mammals.
Free workshop lays out Alaska's new homemade food rules
October 07, 2025
In 2024, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation made significant changes to its cottage food industry rules, which are now called the homemade food exemption. Sarah Lewis, a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Cooperative Extension Service health, home and family development agent, will explain the changes in a free in-person and online workshop.
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The Institute of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Extension is home to UAF's land-grant mission including the UAF Agriculture and Forestry Station as well as Cooperative Extension. The Morrill Act of 1862 established land-grant colleges and the federal Hatch Act of 1887 authorized agricultural experiment stations in the U.S. and its territories to provide science-based research information to farmers. There are agricultural experiment stations in each of the 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and all but one are part of the land-grant college system. UAF's Extension is part of the largest informal education system in the world, connecting Extension programs at land-grant colleges and universities in every U.S. territory and state. Today, the is the USDA division that manages federal funding of the nation’s experiment stations and the extension service.