Price County

To help you keep up-to-date with home canning practices, Price County UW-Extension is offering workshops on preserving jams & jellies, vegetables and pickles.  Each session will be held in the Family and Consumer Science classroom at local high schools, from 5:30 – 8:00p.m.  Cost is $20.00 per session which covers supplies.  You must pre-registered by [...]

May, 2013 Contact Barbara Haynes, 715-339-2555, barbara.haynes@ces.uwex.edu There is nothing quite like home-canned tomatoes or crisp family-favorite dill pickles. Preserving food from your garden or farmer’s market during the summer can make for quick, and delicious family meals later on. But be sure to follow research-tested recipes for safe, high quality food that your family [...]

Sometimes a household’s income drops suddenly because of a job layoff, an illness or death, or a divorce.  It’s natural to feel shock, panic or you just want to ignore the situation.  No matter how bad your situation might be, ignoring your worries won’t make them go away. Price County UW-Extension can help you take [...]

Have you ever been in the middle of cooking/baking and find out you are out of an ingredient? This guide http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/library/fntr2/l730.pdf  from Kansas  State may help you out in a pinch!

How is it that an adolescent who has excellent abilities to reason with his teachers, possesses the skills and knowledge to reconfigure your entire computer system, and can formulate a courtroom argument for a later curfew still manages to make the life-threatening decision to drink and drive? And how is it that your daughter will [...]

You probably already know that Americans need to eat more whole grains, low-fat milk, and fruits and vegetables. What you might not realize is that Americans tend to make poorer choices when eating away from home. For example, eating breakfast away from home usually means eating fewer whole-grains and dairy foods and more calories from [...]

We have access to tons of information via the University of Wisconsin Madison.  Want to know about Container Gardening, Spring Vegetables (eating and selecting), Bats, Skunks, or Cluster Flies?  We have or can get brochures on that!  And many more good things to know like how to grow strawberries and raspberries.  You can stop in at our [...]

Did you know that half of your grain intake each day should come from whole grains? The U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans has long recommended making whole grains a significant portion of your diet. “If you are one of the millions of Americans who fall far short of that goal, there are quick and easy [...]

Join us for our monthly Play Groups – Next Play Group is on Wednesday, May 1st in Park Falls at the Park Falls Public Library.  OR Phillips on Tuesday, May 14th at the Phillips Normal Building. May  topic is: Family Time Snacks – Crafts – Games – Songs Play groups meet from 10:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.  Call 715-339-2555 [...]

  E.L. Luther, the first agent of Cooperative Extension, a division of the University of Wisconsin-Extension, made his rounds on a two-cylinder Indian motorcycle. Photo courtesy of UW-Madison Archives. Contact: Pamela Seelman, (608) 262-9311 or pamela.seelman@ces.uwex.edu Madison, Wis. – Cooperative Extension’s first agent, E.L. Luther, hired in 1912 in Oneida County, made farm visits using [...]