Anchorage Daily News

Master Gardener Course: Participants receive 40 hours of training and then provide 40 hours of volunteer service, noon-3 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays, Oct. 15 through Dec. 5. $100. Call to register. (786-6300)

Wildflower Garden Club -- Kale an Alaskan Garden Crop: Leslie Shallcross, Cooperative Extension Service faculty member and registered dietitian, presents kale as an ideal cool-weather crop. Learn how to grow and harvest this highly nutritious vegetable, prepare it for freezing and use it in recipes. Observe her cooking technique and sample the results, 10 a.m. today.

CANWIN (Citizens Against Noxious Weeds Invading the North): monthly meeting, 3:30 p.m. today, BLM Field Office, 6881 Elmore Road. (245-2373, AKCANWIN@aol.com)

Garden Clubs of the Mat-Su Valley Seed Exchange, an opportunity to obtain seeds for your garden for plants that you've admired in Valley gardens that may not be available from local nurseries and then have lunch with other gardening enthusiasts, noon -2 p.m. Saturday, the Red Beet Cafe, 320 E Dahlia St., Palmer. The seed exchange is free, $14 for the luncheon. (745-4050)

Alaska Rose Society meeting: Program topic to be announced, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Cooperative Extension Service, 2221 E. Northern Lights Blvd., Room 130. (278-2814)

Starting today, farmer Alex Davis will move inside Northway Mall to sell carrots, potatoes and whatever else he has left through the winter months. He will also be butchering pigs in early November. (746-0038)

The 5th Annual Bioneers in Alaska Conference: "Creating Sustainable Communities" will feature four workshops on local food and much more information on living sustainably, Oct. 17-19, the University of Alaska Anchorage. Academic and CEU credits available. Scholarships and Work Exchange opportunities available. (677-9087, info@sustainak.org)

Alaska Master Gardener Association Anchorage Chapter meeting: Master Gardeners Gardens of Summer 2008 plus a mystery presentation by Annie Nevaldine, 7 p.m. Oct. 20, Cooperative Extension Service, 2221 E. Northern Lights Blvd., Room 130. (786-6300)

Third Annual Alaska Invasive Species Conference: Presenters from across the state as well as national speakers will talk about invasive species prevention and management, and what invasive species mean for Alaska, Oct. 21-23, Millennium Alaskan Hotel, 4800 Spenard Road. $140 for all three days or $50 per day. (786-6300, fndew@uaf.edu)

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