There have been some requests for a Sitka Local Foods Marketplace, where local gardeners and fishermen can post notes when they have in-season local food available in Sitka.
The Sitka Local Foods Marketplace will give them a place to let people know when local food is available. The way this will work is people with local food for sale will use the comments to post the news about their extra heads of lettuce or fresh king salmon available for sale. Sellers will be responsible for all licensing required before they can sell fish or cooked goods. Please no selling of subsistence or sport-caught fish due to Alaska Department of Fish & Game licensing regulations.
When posting your comment about local food you have available for sale, please use this format:
• Your name (first and last names, please)
• Your contact information (phone number and/or e-mail address)
• What type of food is available (for example, fresh-caught winter king salmon with most fish in the 12-16 pound range)
• Your price (both single item and any quantity discounts)
• Expected time items will be available (one week, two weeks, all summer, etc.)
• Any other comments about your local food
Please be aware that all comments are moderated on this site (thank the spammers), so it may take a day or two to be posted. If you posted a marketplace comment that didn’t show up on the page within a day or two, please send me an e-mail at charles(at)sitkalocalfoodsnetwork.org — replace (at) with the @ symbol. Also, if you have your own Web site for your local food products, send me the link and I will add it to the Sitka Commercial Food Producers category (toward the bottom of the long list of links on the right side of the Web page).
Hi do you have Farms in Sitka, and can a winter wheat crop grow in Sitka (or sometimes be grown in Sitka, or partially be grown in Sitka??)
Thanks
Tracey
Tracey, Sitka is on a remote island in Southeast Alaska so we don’t really have any commercial farms in town. We have some larger family gardens and some community gardens, but most of our food arrives by barge from the Lower 48. That’s why we’re trying to develop more local food capacity, because we’re in a world of hurt if we ever lose our transportation connections. From 1898-1931, Sitka actually was one of the key growing centers in Alaska and we had Alaska’s first USDA experimental station. But most of the experimental stations were closed in 1931 (they kept the Fairbanks and Matanuska-Susitna valleys stations, which is where Alaska’s main farm areas are located). I don’t know if anybody’s tried growing winter wheat in Sitka (we’re in a rain forest, so the climate may not be right). I know they grew barley, oats, flax and other grain crops during the first year of the experimental station, http://sitkalocalfoodsnetwork.shutterfly.com/48. I’m not sure if they were able to grow them in large enough quantities, though. We grow a lot of root vegetables, lettuces, cabbage, rhubarb, berries, etc. The person to ask about winter wheat is Bob Gorman at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service office in Sitka.
Hi do you have Farms in Sitka, and can a winter wheat crop grow in Sitka (or sometimes be grown in Sitka, or partially be grown in Sitka?)
Thanks
Tracey
What months of the year are you open and when you are open, what days/times?
The Sitka Farmers Market typically runs on alternate Saturdays from July through September. The Sitka Local Foods Marketplace is an all-year place where people can post what local food they have available. We’ve had commercial fishermen post seafood they have available. We’ve had backyard gardeners post what veggies they have that are ready now, which is helpful for those in-between-market weeks. This is feature is more like a bulletin board to help connect people with local food with people who want to buy or barter for local food.
[...] walking onions, and a few plant starts. She also makes gift baskets. Lori is posting updates to the Sitka Local Foods Marketplace page about what in-season produce is available. (This page is available for other Sitka gardeners, [...]
-Down To Earth U-Pick Garden is open!
-738-2241
-Selling lettuce and spinach ($6.00 per bag)
rhubarb ($1.00 per large stalk, $.50 per small stalk)
white and red radishes ($1.00 per bunch)
herbs ($.10 per sprig)
Egyptian walking onions ($.10 each)
a few starts ($2.00 each)
-hours are Monday-Saturday 11:00 – 6:00 for the summer
For a great gift idea try one of our beautiful gift baskets! Arrange one yourself, or call ahead for one to be ready when you want it. A sampling of fresh produce usually lined with kale or lettuce, includes a small bouquet of flowers and a bunch of herbs.
Also, ask about our “rent-a-duck” program!
*Lori Adams-Down to Earth u-pick garden
*747-6108 or 738-2241
*Tomato starts in 4 inch pots (about 10 varieties)
*Price- $2.00 each
Right now the garden is closed, but you can call me anytime and schedule a time to come and look over the tomatoes. I might open as early as May, but for sure will be open by the middle of June. I will post here if I have something come available before opening time.
* Eric Jordan
* 738-2486
* Fresh-caught winter king salmon, most fish 12-16 pounds
* Price $10 per pound
* Fish available Friday, Feb. 26, until sold out
* Going fishing again at the end of the first week in March, so call to see if more fish is available