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Need help identifying mushrooms, learning to properly can salmon, or applying for a fishing license? Or maybe you just want to read more about it? This is the place for listing classes, articles, and other useful links. Organized by resource type.

Classes and workshops

UAF's Cooperative Extension Service offers a wide variety of classes in gardening in Alaska, food preservation, and building a small business. Courses are offered in several locations throughout the state and year round.

Interested in growing your own food? Check out the Master Gardening course offered by the Cooperative Extension Service. The Master Gardeners course is a twelve week class that, contrary to its title, assumes that you know absolutely nothing about gardening. The class starts from square one and the students are usually a mix of novice and experienced gardeners. Students have the option of paying a large fee and doing no volunteer time or paying a relatively small fee and putting in 40 garden-related volunteer hours. The Extension Service is very flexible about when and how you do your volunteer time.

Fairbanks

UAF Summer Sessions includes classes in mushroom identification by Prof. Gary Laursen.

Calypso Farm and Ecology Center offers evening and weekend workshops ecological gardening throughout the year.

Organizations and groups

The Fairbanks Community Cooperative Market is a group trying to develop a local coop market for organic and natural foods. Hopefully, this will include local products.

Don't have space for a garden where you live? Contact the Fairbanks Community Garden. For a small fee ($50.00 a year) you can rent a plot. The Community Garden supplies the dirt, water, some basic tools, a big fence, and a port-a-potty. You supply the seeds and manual labor. Very nice site at the very end of A Street (back in the woods) in Hamilton Acres, a stone's throw from the river.

Of course, you're going to need compost for your garden and the nice folks at Golden Heart Utilities have got plenty for you. Check out their compost page here. It's safe to garden in and smells nice and clean. The price is right, too--$15.00 per standard pickup load or $5.00 per cubic yard for dump truck loads. Be forewarned, however--the black gold goes fast especially in the spring so be ready to move when the GHU announces its availability.

Publications

Articles and Newsletters
Read this article by Eric Troyer of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner for a compilation of local food sources in Fairbanks.

Anchorage Daily News' four part series by reporter S. J. Komarnitsky on trying to eat completely locally for one week.

Here's an article about a new program for Cheese Futures to help support the dairies affected by the Matanuska Maid closure. Local cheese, finally!

Outpost Agriculture is a monthly column about local agriculture and food ethics by anthropologist Phil Loring, appearing in The Ester Republic.

Linden Staciokas, a local writer and gardener, has two articles on-line that may be of interest: eating your garden weeds and clever ways with left-overs.

Books
Like a Tree to the Soil: a history of farming in the Tanana Valley, 1903 to 1940. Josephine Papp & Josie Phillips, published 2008. This book has biographies of farmers, gardeners, greenhouse operators, dairy farmers, and poultry ranchers, as well as discussions of what they grew, the organizations they formed, and generally giving a good overview of how the Tanana Valley was almost self-sufficient agriculturally for its early history.

Website resources

Alaska Grown is the official source for Alaska products certified by the State of Alaska. The site includes a directories of Farmer's Markets and Alaska Grown producers.

The Ethicurean blog, while not Alaska specific, includes essays on food ethics and eating locally, and has great recipes, too.
UAF's School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences has numerous publications on local food production.


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SEARHC_GUY Some (mostly) Alaska garden links of interest 0 Jun 4 2008, 5:57 PM EDT by SEARHC_GUY
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http://www.alaskamastergardeners.org/

http://www.seakmastergardeners.org/

http://www.alaskagardeningguide.com/

http://www.alaska.edu/uaf/ces/publications/

http://www.alaska.edu/uaf/ces/ah/

http://www.uaf.edu/ces/michele/index.html

http://www.greatplantpicks.org/

http://www.helpfulgardener.com/

http://www.foodsecurity.org/ (look at community project profiles, which have grants available)

http://www.npsas.org/ (Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society, group headed by former Alaska Humanities Forum director Gary Holthaus)

http://www.landscapealaska.com/ (Juneau-based garden design group)

http://www.juneau.com/garden/index.html

http://www.alaskaprimroses.org/

http://www.alaskabg.org/

http://www.glaciergardens.com/

http://www.projectforlivablecommunities.org/index.htm

http://www.chickaloon.org/Environmental/GreenHouse1.html (garden project for Chickaloon Village near Palmer)

http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF17/1779.html (article on food distances traveled)

http://alaskalocavores.wetpaint.com/page/Resources?t=anon (a lot of Fairbanks community garden links)

http://www.alaskagrown.org/
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