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UAF Cooperative Extension provides over 350 publications on everything from Alaska blueberries to canning walrus. Search our database and find answers to your everyday questions.

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Our agents host hands-on workshops in communities all over Alaska on topics like food preservation, energy efficiency and nutrition and health. Join us in person or online.

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Our experts provide research-based, practical information. We show people how to plant gardens, raise chickens and cook sourdough pancakes. Connect with one of our experts for help answering your everyday questions.

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4-H and Youth Development

Cooperative Extension is home to Alaska's 4-H and Youth development programs. Youth in communities across Alaska develop skills for life and leadership in our state.

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CES Director Presentations

The University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service will host Zoom presentations from three finalists vying to serve as the program’s new director.

 

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  • Two photos are stacked. The top photo is in color and shows two men standing in front of grain that is about 2 feet tall. The lower black and white photo shows a group of men in a field with a measuring stick showing shoulder-height grain.

    Grain at the Fairbanks Experiment Farm shrank over the past century

    June 13, 2025

    Grain grown on the University of Alaska Fairbanks' experiment farm was much taller in 1916 than 2024. Jakir Hasan has a simple explanation. "People were a bit shorter," he joked. Hasan, a research assistant professor of plant genetics at UAF's Institute of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Extension, said the shift to shorter grain actually resulted from breeding efforts that began in the mid-20th century.

  • A woman pushes a long pole filled with herbicide pellets into a tree stump on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus.

    Experts to demonstrate ways to control invasive chokecherries

    June 12, 2025

    Visit the Fairbanks Experiment Farm and watch integrated pest management experts demonstrate techniques to control invasive chokecherry trees, Prunus padus and Prunus virginiana. The free event, a collaboration of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service and the Northern Alaska Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area, is Wednesday, June 18, from 5:30-7:30 p.m.

  • A log is positioned in a portable mill

    Delta arborist to lead workshops on pruning, milling, chainsaw maintenance

    June 10, 2025

    Three workshops in Delta Junction this month will focus on tree pruning techniques, operating a portable sawmill and chainsaw maintenance. Jesse Roman, a licensed arborist who recently moved to Delta Junction, will lead the in-person workshops, which are hosted by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service and Partners for Progress in Delta.

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