Local foods celebration hosted in Juneau
April 17, 2015
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The University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service will celebrate local foods with its April Fowls and Foods Weekend April 25-26 in Juneau.
The celebration will kick off with the second-annual Extension Shindig, a foods film fest that will begin at 6 p.m. April 22 at Goldtown Nickelodeon. Two movies will be shown — “Growing Cities,” a documentary about urban farmers, and “The Real Dirt on Farmer John,” about family farms. Admission is $12.
Food-related classes will be offered Saturday and Sunday at the Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School, 1600 Rennington St. Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. and classes will run until 5 p.m. on both days.
Topics will include canning, making sauerkraut and pickles, emergency food, the cottage foods business, wild edibles and gardening. Other classes will cover chickens, ducks and other fowl, coop building, chicken manure compost, and goat and ruminant herd health. A kids’ cooking class and other youth activities are planned for Saturday. The annual Tour de Coop, a self-guided tour of chicken coops, will take place both days.
Registration is $10 for children ages 5 to 18, and adults are $40. To preregister or get more information, call Susie at the Juneau District office at 523-3280, Ext. 0, or register online at www.bit.ly/ces-workshops.
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