Community classes hosted during Extension Week

March 28, 2017

Marmian Grimes

Reina Hasting explains how to make queso fresco during the 2016 Spring Extension Week.
Reina Hasting explains how to make queso fresco during the 2016 Spring Extension Week.


From cheesemaking to raising chickens, 15 free community classes will be offered in Fairbanks April 10-14 during the annual Spring Extension Week.

Cooperative Extension Service agents, staff and a community expert will teach the classes. Topics will include growing cilantro and other herbs, preventing diabetes, using a GPS, retirement planning, fermenting foods, heating with wood, raising peonies for fun and profit, using iPhones, doing Zumba, producing “powerhouse veggies” and more. The Powerhouse Veggies class will cover how to grow certain nutrition-packed vegetables and why.

The full schedule, class descriptions and online registration are available at http://bit.ly/TDextweek2017. Classes will meet at 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. at the district Extension office at 724 27th Ave., on the southwest side of the Fairbanks Community Food Bank building. Free parking is available in the lot at 27th Avenue and Rickert Street. Preregistration is required since class space is limited.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service is part of an educational network supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and land-grant universities. For more information, call 907-474-1530.