> As the holiday gift-giving season rolls around, think about useful presents from Extension. Collecting and Using Alaska Wild Berries and Other Wild Products is on sale for $7. The cookbook features recipes for cooking with everything from blueberries, raspberries and lowbush cranberries to chokecherries, fireweed and more. Details about fruit leathers and jams and jellies are included. Consider How to Make a Trapper Cap or Alaska Mittens patterns or the colorful guide, Wild, Edible and Poisonous Plants of Alaska . These are available at your local district office or may be ordered online. Also available are new food preservation DVDs on canning and pickling.

> Speaking of holidays, directions for cooking turkeys, Serving Turkey Safely, may be downloaded free from Extension’s publications catalog.

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