>  Extension is charting its course for the next five years and we’d like to hear your ideas. Please fill out our short online survey by March 15 and let us know how we can best serve you. Your response will help us focus our efforts in the areas of health, energy, youth and families, food security and with economic and community development. Fill out the survey and we will enter you in a drawing for $50 gift certificates for Extension publications.

> The 2010 Alaska Produce Growers Conference Feb. 16-17 in Palmer will provide an opportunity for potato, vegetable and fruit growers to become better farmers. Experts from the university and state and federal agencies will lead workshops on weed management, herbicides, soil nutrient modeling, agricultural grant writing for farmers and more. Check out the agenda and registration form.

> The Alaska Greenhouse and Nursery Conference is Feb. 25-26 in Juneau. Topics will include slugs and snails, low maintenance landscape design, propagating native plants, new varieties for 2010 and more.

> The annual Delta Farm Forum Feb. 27 will bring producers, researchers and agricultural agencies together. Speakers will talk about cereals research, barley flour, sustainable community agriculture, wind machines and other topics. See this flyer for more information and a schedule.

> Registration is open for the sixth annual Sustainable Agriculture Conference and Organic Growers School March 17 in Fairbanks. The conference draws speakers and participants from across Alaska. Topics will include energy-efficient greenhouses, wind machines, season extensions, soil fertility, weed suppression and more. Special guest Chris Blanchard of Iowa will talk about community supported agriculture. Check out the agenda and registration form.

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