Sarah Lewis from the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service will return to Wrangell July 27-29 to teach more health and food preservation classes for free.
Lewis, based in Juneau, will travel on her family’s boat, the Pacific Sapphire, to visit nine communities in Southeast Alaska during the month to teach a variety of home skills and food preservation classes. “More reliable than the ferry and less expensive than flying,” she said.
The Wrangell classes are a collaboration with the federal Tribes Extension Program, 4-H, the Wrangell Cooperative Association and SEARHC.
Lewis said the classes will be held at the high school home economics classroom.
The sessions are free, and include cooking for brain health as well as bone health, food preservation basics, making your own natural home cleaners, how to preserve food in an emergency if your freezer fails, testing pressure canner gauges and a class on food preservation safety for local food leaders (though the general public is invited to attend as well).
A licensed architect with a master’s degree in social work, Lewis has transformed her background into a career as the university extension service’s Juneau-based health, home and family development agent, sharing her knowledge of food preservation, home energy efficiency and emergency preparedness techniques. She has been teaching such workshops throughout Southeast since 2013.
Lewis last taught workshops in Wrangell in December 2022.
For schedules and registration links, visit https://bit.ly/SoutheastCES2024. Any accommodation requests related to a disability should be made five business days in advance.
For more information, contact Lewis at 907-455-2010 or sarah.lewis@alaska.edu.
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