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July 4, 2009 by sitkalocalfoodsnetwork
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Recent Posts
- • Lori Adams discusses everything she’s learned about planting carrots in her latest Daily Sitka Sentinel garden column
- • St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm hosts another work party for spring planting and preparing for a summer of fresh veggies
- • Lori Adams discusses transplanting time in her latest Daily Sitka Sentinel garden column
- • Lori Adams discusses crop rotation in her latest Daily Sitka Sentinel garden column
- • Join us at the Fish to Schools benefit dinner on Wednesday, April 25
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Categories
Alaska Links
- • "Common Edible Seaweeds in the Gulf of Alaska" by Dolly Garza, PhD (order info from the Alaska SeaGrant program)
- • "Teaming With Microbes" site by Anchorage's Jeff Lowenfels, a member of the Garden Writers Association Hall of Fame
- • "Wild, Edible and Medicinal Plants of Alaska, Canada and the Pacific Northwest Rainforest" pocket field guides order information (guides by Carol Biggs of Juneau)
- • Alaska Bounty (fish-based fertilizer from Naknek, in Bristol Bay)
- • Alaska Center for the Environment local food project
- • Alaska Community Agriculture (social marketing site for Alaska CSA and small-scale farmers)
- • Alaska Community Agriculture Association (new site)
- • Alaska Department of Fish & Game (includes regulations and other resources for Sitka hunters and fishers)
- • Alaska Farm Service Agency site (USDA program)
- • Alaska Farmers Market Association site
- • Alaska Food Challenge (group trying to eat only Alaska food during 2011-12)
- • Alaska Food Coalition (helps provide food to the needy)
- • Alaska Food Policy Council blog (updates from the Alaska Food Policy Council)
- • Alaska Food Safety and Sanitation Program
- • Alaska Food, a site from Susan Beeman Sommer that brings together other local food sites in Alaska
- • Alaska Granular Fish (organic fish fertilizer from Palmer)
- • Alaska Grown site (statewide cooperative to promote agriculture)
- • Alaska Master Gardeners Association
- • Alaska Native Plant Society
- • Alaska Permaculture Community social networking site
- • Alaska Permaculture Guild
- • Alaska Pioneer Fruit Growers Association
- • Alaska Sea Grant program (University of Alaska Fairbanks, library has info on fish, seaweeds, seafood safety, etc.)
- • Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (site has lots of information for the uses of seafood)
- • Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute recipe videos
- • Alaska subsistence halibut regulations from NOAA
- • Calypso Farm and Ecology Center (a Fairbanks-based community supported agriculture program)
- • Fairbanks Community Cooperative Market site (a new market in Fairbanks devoted to local foods)
- • Food Bank of Alaska
- • Fresh 49 (a site by chef Robert Kinneen about Alaska's local food and its food supply)
- • Gardening From The Cabbage Patch (collected columns from former Fairbanks Daily News-Miner garden columnist Pat Babcock)
- • Glacier Valley Farms CSA (a community supported agriculture program that serves Southcentral Alaska)
- • Good Earth Garden School / Ask Mother Nature: A Conscious Gardener's Guide (site by Palmer organic gardener, teacher and writer Ellen Vande Visse)
- • HomeGrown Market of Fairbanks
- • John Evans and his Giant Vegetables (Palmer gardener with several world records)
- • Kenai Resilience (sustainability group from the Kenai Peninsula)
- • Meyer's Farm (Bethel, Alaska, community supported agriculture project)
- • Municipality of Anchorage community garden program
- • RurAL CAP (Rural Alaska Community Action Program, Inc.)
- • Seaweeds of Alaska (site sponsored by Cook Inlet Rural Citizens Advisory Council)
- • Southcentral Alaska Beekeepers Association (SABA)
- • Sustain Alaska site run by the Bioneers of Alaska (group does some food security projects)
- • Sustainable Local Alaskan Plants site (connecting locally grown native plants to the people that need them)
- • The Last Frontier Locavores site (aka, Alaska Locavores)
- • University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service site
- • University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Natural Resources & Agricultural Sciences
- • USDA Rural Development page for Alaska
Blogroll
- • "AK Root Cellar" blog about local foods in Alaska from the Anchorage Daily News
- • "Alison's Lunch" blog by Alison Arians, president of the Alaska Farmers Market Association
- • "Anonymous Bloggers," site about bringing food and fuel to rural Alaska (includes several links on cold-weather gardening)
- • "DigginFood" blog about vegetable gardens and organic food by Willi Galloway
- • "Dispatches From The Funky Butte Ranch" blog by former Haines, Alaska, resident Doug Fine, who is living off the grid in New Mexico
- • "Eat Local Northwest" blog, a blog about local foods by Stephen Nowers in Anchorage and Audrey Young in Seattle
- • "Feasting in the Skagit Foodshed" blog about local foods in Skagit Valley, Wash.
- • "Food-G" blog by Ginny Mahar, a chef from Rainbow Foods in Juneau who writes about using local foods
- • "Hunter Angler Gardener Cook: Finding the Forgotten Feast" blog by Hank Shaw
- • "Mediterranean Cooking In Alaska" blog by Laurie Constantino of Anchorage (several recipes feature local ingredients)
- • "Mucking About A Northwest Garden" blog from Rainy Side Gardeners
- • "Rhubarb or Bust" blog about growing rhubarb in Alaska
- • "Talk Dirt To Me" blog by Anchorage Daily News photographer/gardener Fran Durner
- • "The Community Gardener" blog
- • "The Fireweed" blog by UAF professor Philip Loring on building sustainable communities
- • "The Locavore Way" blog by Amy Cotler
- • "The Real Food Revolution" blog
- • "The Starter Garden" blog from the New York Times (written by Michael Tortorello of Minnesota)
- • "We Can Grow It" Alaska Community and Neighborhood Garden Web site
- • Alaska Fishing Recipes
- • Alaska Food Policy Council blog (updates from the Alaska Food Policy Council)
- • Anchorage Daily News gardening columns by Jeff Lowenfels, a member of the Garden Writers Association Hall of Fame
- • Fairbanks Community Cooperative Market blog (project to open a local foods market in Fairbanks)
- • Fat of the Land blog, Adventures of a 21st Century Forager
- • Food In Jars blog about canning food in jars
- • Haines Gardeners and Farmers
- • Kenley's Alaskan Vegetables and Flowers blog (from the Mat-Su valleys)
- • Last Frontier Garden blog
- • Placemaking for Communities blog from the Project for Public Spaces (has local food and market posts)
- • Real Time Foods blog (stories about where our food comes from)
- • Sitka Gardening blog (unknown poster who uses the handle Natural History of Sitka Sound)
- • Sitka Nature blog by Matt Goff (an aspiring naturalist learns his place)
- • UAF School of Natural Resources & Agricultural Sciences blog
- • Veggie Gardeners blog
Films About Local Food or Local Food Systems
- • "All Jacked Up," four teenagers look at the food system in America
- • "America's Heartland," PBS series about agriculture in America
- • "Asparagus: Stalking the American Life," a film from Michigan
- • "Dirt! The Movie," a film about the relationships between humans and living dirt
- • "Eating Alaska," a film by Sitka filmmaker Ellen Frankenstein
- • "End of the Line," movie about over-fishing
- • "Food Beware," a film about the French organic revolution
- • "Food Fight," revolution never tasted this good
- • "Food, Inc.," you'll never look at food the same way again
- • "Fresh," new thinking about what we're eating
- • "Good Food," sustainable food and farming in the Pacific Northwest
- • "Growing Awareness," a Pacific Northwest film about Community Supported Agriculture
- • "Ingredients," a documentary film from Portland, Ore.
- • "King Corn," two recent college graduates grow an acre of corn
- • "Living Lightly," a family lives off the grid in New Brunswick, farming and making scythes
- • "Mad City Chickens," film about urban poultry
- • "Media That Matters: Good Food," a series of short films about local food
- • "Pollen Nation," a film about raising bees so they can pollinate local crops
- • "The Garden," from the ashes of the L.A. riots rose a 14-acre community garden
- • "The Organic Opportunity: Small Farms and Economic Development"
- • "The Real Dirt on Farmer John," an industrial farmer goes organic
- • "What Will We Eat?"
National and International Links
- • "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle," site from the Barbara Kingsolver book (has good local foods links)
- • "Chefs A'Field" PBS cooking show that takes chefs to the farm and field to see where our food comes from, includes segments from Alaska
- • "Plant a Row for the Hungry" site from the Garden Writers Association
- • American Community Garden Association
- • American Farmland Trust
- • American Planning Association's Policy Guide on Community and Regional Food Planning
- • Cascade Harvest Coalition (local foods group in Washington)
- • Center for Food Safety's True Food Network promoting a healthy, sustainable food system
- • City Farmer's Urban Agriculture Notes (Vancouver, B.C., site)
- • Community Chickens (a site with info about raising chickens)
- • Community Food Security Coalition
- • Community Greens, an organization to get more shared parks in urban blocks
- • Eat Wild (organization promoting pasture-fed meat, eggs and dairy)
- • Ed Hume Seeds (selected for the Pacific Northwest)
- • Farmers Market Coalition
- • Farmers Markets Today magazine article on Alaska farmers markets
- • Feeding America (formerly known as America's Second Harvest)
- • Food Routes (Where Does Your Food Come From?)
- • Food Secure Vancouver (good site about a community's food security)
- • Food Voices site about worldwide food sovereignty by part-time Sitka resident Andrianna Natsoulas
- • Foraged and Found Edibles (Seattle business that sells wild mushrooms, greens, etc.)
- • Garden Guides, Your Guide to Everything Gardening
- • Gardening Know How site
- • How-to page for controling slugs and snails from the National Gardening Association's "Edible Gardening with Charlie Nardozzi" page
- • Hydroponic Vegetable Gardening Secrets
- • IATP (Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy) Food and Society Fellows
- • Kids Gardening (helping young minds grow)
- • Kitchen Gardeners, a global community cultivating change
- • Local food Web resources from the book "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle," by Barbara Kingsolver
- • Local Harvest (national organization promoting local foods)
- • Mad City Chickens (site from Wisconsin promoting urban poultry)
- • National Bioneers site (go to bottom of page for Food and Farming link)
- • National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
- • National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
- • Natural Resources Conservation Service (offers some grants for local foods projects)
- • New City Farmer site on Urban Agriculture (Vancouver, B.C., site)
- • Organic Consumers Association
- • Organic Farming Research Foundation
- • Permaculture Forums (organic homesteading, natural living)
- • Permies.com (Goofballs who are nuts about permaculture)
- • PickYourOwn.org (national directory of u-pick gardens and farms)
- • Project for Public Spaces program for building public markets (lots of good resources)
- • Rainy Side Gardeners (a site about gardening in the Pacific Northwest)
- • Real Time Farms (national site that shows you where your food comes from)
- • RichSoil.com (site by Paul Wheaton of Montana on horticulture and permaculture)
- • Rodale Institute (supports organic farming, nutrition and similar causes)
- • Seattle Tilth: Learn. Grow. Eat. (good education site on urban livestock and gardening from Seattle)
- • Slow Food International
- • Slow Food USA
- • SPIN (Small-Plot INtensive) farming site about how to maximize production from small plots of land
- • Still Tasty (site about the shelf life of food)
- • Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders
- • Sustainable Connections site for sustainable living in Northwest Washington
- • Sustainable Table
- • The Edible Garden Project (community garden project out of Vancouver, B.C.)
- • The Fresh Loaf (site for amateur bakers and artisan bread enthusiasts)
- • The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation
- • The Trust for Public Land (TPL) — conservation and parks for people
- • The Weston A. Price Foundation for Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts
- • U.S. Department of Agriculture
- • USDA Agricultural Marketing Service page for farmers markets and local food marketing (has national farmers market directory link)
- • USDA's "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food" program page
- • Washington Sustainable Food and Farming Network
- • West Side Gardener (companion site for Rainy Day Gardeners, but focused on edibles)
- • Wild Food Plants
- • Wisconsin Fast Plants (rapid-growing edible plants that are great for gardening with kids)
- • Yukon Agricultural Association (farming info for the north country)
Sitka Commercial Food Producers
- • Absolute Fresh Seafoods
- • Alaska Dream Salmon (the Jordan family and the F/V Saturday)
- • Alaska Hook & Line Seafoods
- • Alaska Longline Fishermen's Association (Sitka-based commercial fishing industry non-profit group)
- • Alaskans Own Seafood
- • Back Bay Botanicals (herbal medicinal products)
- • Baranof Island Brewing Company (microbrew beer made in Sitka)
- • Big Blue Fisheries LLC (custom processing, custom smoking, retail sales)
- • Grandma Tillie's Bakery (locally produced baked goods)
- • Highliner Coffee Company (gourmet coffee company)
- • Larkspur Café (Sitka restaurant that uses local food on its menu)
- • Ludvig's Bistro (Sitka restaurant that uses local seafood and organic veggies)
- • Pearl of Alaska (Rocky Pass Pacific oysters from Kake)
- • Rose Fisheries
- • Sailor's Choice Coffee (locally roasted free trade coffee and nuts)
- • Seafood Producers Cooperative
- • Silver Bay Seafoods
- • Simple Pleasures of Alaska (kelp and wild berry products)
- • Sitka Sound Seafoods
- • The Alaskan Kitchen (hand-made sausages and catering using local foods)
- • Theobroma Chocolate Company
- • True Alaska Bottling / Alaska Bulk Water
- • Two Chicks And A Kabob Stick LLC (two sisters sell meals made with local seafood they caught themselves)
Sitka Links
- • City and Borough of Sitka
- • City of Sitka page about composting in Sitka (click link at bottom for next page)
- • Eating Alaska (film about food choices by Sitka filmmaker Ellen Frankenstein)
- • Garden Ventures (Facebook page for Sitka plant nursery)
- • Kayaaní Commission site for the Sitka Tribe of Alaska group about traditional plant use
- • Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association (salmon hatcheries)
- • SEARHC (SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, one of our sponsor organizations)
- • Sitka Community Schools page for the Blatchley Community Garden
- • Sitka Conservation Society (one of our sponsor organizations)
- • Sitka Farmers Market photo group page on Flickr.com
- • Sitka Food Co-Op (new group trying to get a food co-op going in Sitka)
- • Sitka Gardening site run by Sharon Romine
- • Sitka Global Warming (one of our sponsor organizations)
- • Sitka Health Summit
- • Sitka Local Foods Network events calendar
- • Sitka Local Foods Network group page on Facebook
- • Sitka Local Foods Network photos on Shutterfly
- • Sitka Native Education Program (does some traditional foods classes)
- • Sitka Outdoor Recreation Coalition (Get Out, Sitka!)
- • Sitka resident Marcel LaPerriere's Southeast Cedar Homes business also is the local dealer for Solexx twin-wall greenhouses
- • Sitka Seafood Festival fan page on Facebook
- • Sitka Seafood Festival official site
- • Sitka Sound Science Center (hatchery, aquarium, learning center)
- • Sitka weekly sports fishing report from the Alaska Department of Fish & Game
- • Spenard Builders Supply (sells garden supplies in Sitka)
- • St. Peter's Fellowship Farm community garden photos (opens as PDF file)
- • SwampRatt (site by former retired Sitka Pioneer Home gardener Jerry Snelling, with photos from the gardens)
- • True Value hardware store
- • United Southeast Alaska Gillnetter's Association (Juneau-based regional commercial salmon fishing industry group)
- • University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service page for the Sitka District Office
Southeast Alaska Market / Garden Links
- • Glacier Gardens Rain Forest Adventures (a privately owned botanical garden in Juneau)
- • Gustavus Farmers Market
- • Haines Farmers Market
- • Jensen-Olson Arboretum in Juneau
- • Jewell Gardens and Glassworks (a CSA garden in Skagway)
- • Juneau Community Garden Association (new site)
- • Juneau Community Gardens
- • Juneau Community Gardens video from 2009
- • Juneau Farmers Market (new site in 2010)
- • Juneau Farmers Market and Local Foods Festival
- • POW Farmers Market (a new Prince of Wales Island farmers market based in Thorne Bay)
- • Prince of Wales Island Farmers Market
- • Prince of Wales Island Farmers Market (Facebook page)
- • Southeast Alaska Master Gardeners site
- • Wrangell Community Garden
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