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 UAF's School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences has numerous publications on local food production.