Do you enjoy the Sitka Farmers Market? If so, vote for us in the America’s Favorite Farmers Market contest sponsored by the American Farmland Trust, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving America’s agricultural resources. To vote, click here and then search for the Sitka Farmers Market by using the zip code or state directories. The [...]
Archive for July, 2009
• Vote for Sitka Farmers Market in the America’s Favorite Farmers Market contest
Posted in Sitka Farmers Market, tagged America's Favorite Farmers Market contest, American Farmland Trust, ANB Hall, arts and crafts, berries, community garden, community greenhouse, farmers market, fish, food, garden, halibut, kids' activities, market, produce, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, vote on July 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
• Gardening column reminds us time to harvest food is now
Posted in Gardens, tagged berries, community garden, education, encouragement, food, garden, Garden Writers Association, harvest, Jeff Lowenfels, Plant a Row for the Hungry, produce on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Anchorage Daily News garden columnist Jeff Lowenfels, a member of the Garden Writers Association Hall of Fame, in his column on Wednesday reminded us that the time to begin harvesting our vegetable gardens starts now. We don’t want to let any food go to waste on the ground. If we don’t want the food, there [...]
• UAF Cooperative Extension Service offers online resources for home canners
Posted in Food preservation, education, tagged berries, education, encouragement, fish, food, garden, halibut, produce, salmon, Sitka Local Foods Network, subsistence, traditional foods, UAF Cooperative Extension Service on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Did you catch a lot of fish this summer and now you want to can some of them to eat this winter? Do you want to make salmonberry preserves with all those lush, ripe salmonberries you picked this week? The University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service recently launched a series of interactive online demonstrations [...]
• How does your garden grow?
Posted in Gardens, tagged best greenhouse, best looking garden, community garden, encouragement, garden, Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka's best gardens, widest variety of food on July 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Now that we’re well into the garden season, it’s time to take an informal survey to find out who is growing the best gardens in Sitka. Does your neighbor have an incredible garden? Do you think your own garden looks pretty impressive? Then look for the “Leave A Comment” link below this story and post [...]
• Nice article on blueberries in Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Posted in Recipes, traditional foods, tagged berries, berrypicking, blueberries, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, subsistence, traditional foods, UAF Cooperative Extension Service on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s that time of year again, the blueberries are getting ready for picking. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner had a nice story on the arrival of blueberry season in Wednesday’s paper. The story includes four recipes from the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service. Alaska has a deep and abiding love for its wild blueberries. [...]
• Saturday’s Sitka Farmers Market leads into National Farmers Market Week
Posted in Sitka Farmers Market, tagged ANB Hall, berries, cod, farmers market, Farmers Market Coalition, fish, food, garden, halibut, kids' activities, music, National Farmers Market Week, produce, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network, workshop on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This Saturday’s second Sitka Farmers Market of the season will serve as the perfect lead-in for National Farmers Market Week next week. The Sitka Farmers Market takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 1, at the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall (235 Katlian St.) and in the adjoining parking lot owned by [...]
• Healthy Wrangell Coalition hopes to build a community garden
Posted in Gardens, tagged community garden, diabetes prevention, encouragement, garden, Gretchen Clarke, Healthy Wrangell Coalition, Kake, Klukwan, KSTK-FM, potatoes, produce, SEARHC, Steps to a Healthier SE Alaska, subsistence, Tammi Meissner, traditional foods, WISEFAMILIES, Wrangell on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some of our neighbor communities also are looking for ways to get more local foods into their diets. Last week, KSTK-FM in Wrangell ran a story about the Healthy Wrangell Coalition’s goal of building a community garden in Wrangell. A couple of days later, there was a follow-up story about the project receiving a $5,000 [...]
• More Lower 48 coverage of Sitka Farmers Market
Posted in Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network in the news, tagged farmers market, Florence Welsh, garden, Kerry MacLane, Red Bluff (Calif.) Daily News, Sitka Farmers Market on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week we made note that a Daily Sitka Sentinel story from July 17 that previewed the first Sitka Farmers Market had been picked up by the Associated Press newswire and found its way into the Augusta Chronicle in Georgia. Well, this week that same story made another Lower 48 newspaper appearance when it hit [...]
• A broccoli pesto/dip recipe from Sitka’s Keith Nyitray
Posted in Recipes, tagged broccoli, education, encouragement, food, garden, Keith Nyitray, pesto, produce, Recipes, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network on July 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A broccoli pesto/dip recipe from Sitka resident Keith Nyitray What a wonderful year for gardening! If your garden is anything like mine this year, you probably ended up with an overabundance of broccoli. You’ve sold or given your broccoli away, gorged on steamed broccoli, made broccoli quiche, broccoli rarebit, cream of broccoli soup, and maybe [...]
