This week Linda Wilson sent out a special e-newsletter about the Sitka Farmers Market and issues related to our first market on July 18. In addition to the issues listed in the special e-newsletter, please remember that no pets are allowed inside the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall during the markets because food preparation and sales [...]
Archive for July, 2009
• Sitka Farmers Market gets more media play
Posted in Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network in the news, tagged Anchorage Daily News, farmers market, Florence Welsh, Kerry MacLane, produce, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network on July 24, 2009 |
It looks there’s more media coverage of the Sitka Farmers Market. The Alaska Newsreader blog on the Anchorage Daily News Web site has a link to the Daily Sitka Sentinel story (as it ran in the Juneau Empire) and a link to the Sitka Local Foods Network Web site. Click here to see the ADN’s [...]
• Georgia newspaper runs article on Sitka Farmers Market
Posted in Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network in the news, tagged Augusta Chronicle (Ga.), farmers market, Florence Welsh, garden, Juneau Empire, Kerry MacLane, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network on July 24, 2009 |
They’re talking about the Sitka Local Foods Network in Augusta, Ga. The Augusta Chronicle’s Web site ran a version of a story that originally appeared July 17 in the Daily Sitka Sentinel and then was picked up by the Associated Press news wire. The article includes a photo of Sitka gardener Florence Welsh showing off [...]
• Donations and volunteers needed for Sitka Farmers Markets
Posted in Sitka Farmers Market, tagged booths, donations, farmers market, produce, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network, volunteers on July 23, 2009 |
Did your home garden produce a bumper crop and you have more vegetables than you can handle? The Sitka Local Foods Network is accepting donations for its vegetable stand at the next Sitka Farmers Market, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 1, at the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall. All proceeds from produce [...]
• New photo galleries posted on Shutterfly
Posted in Photo galleries, Sitka Farmers Market, tagged ANB Hall, arts and crafts, cod, farmers market, fish, food, garden, market, Photo galleries, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network on July 21, 2009 |
There have been a couple of new photo albums posted on the Sitka Local Foods Network page on Shutterfly (a photo-sharing site). There is an album of photos from Saturday’s first Sitka Farmers Market of the 2009 summer. There also is a photo album of photos from 2008 events, and an album of historical photos [...]
• Alaska Dream Salmon wins first Table of the Day Award
Posted in Sitka Farmers Market, tagged Alaska Dream Salmon, ANB Hall, farmers market, fish, Julie Jordan, Kerry MacLane, market, salmon, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, Table of the Day on July 20, 2009 |
Julie Jordan of Alaska Dream Salmon receives the “Table of the Day Award” from Sitka Farmers Markets co-coordinator Kerry MacLane after the season’s first market on July 18. The Sitka Local Foods Network selected her table — which featured three varieties of fresh salmon and rock fish caught on the F/V Saturday — to receive [...]
• Sitka Farmers Market preview in July 17 paper
Posted in Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network in the news, tagged Daily Sitka Sentinel, farmers market, Florence Welsh, food security, garden, Kerry MacLane, Linda Wilson, market, produce, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network on July 20, 2009 |
In case you didn’t see it, the Daily Sitka Sentinel previewed the first Sitka Farmers Market of the season with a front-page article and photo in the Friday, July 17, 2009, issue of the paper. Click the link below to read a PDF version of the Sentinel story (PDF requires Adobe Acrobat to read, which [...]
• Eight fun facts about Saturday’s first Sitka Farmers Market
Posted in Sitka Farmers Market, tagged ANB Hall, berries, cod, education, farmers market, fish, food, halibut, kids' activities, music, produce, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network on July 16, 2009 |
1. The first of five scheduled Sitka Farmers Markets this summer takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 18, at the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall on Katlian Street. 2. More than 20 local vendors will be selling fresh veggies, fish, art and more. 3. The Gajaa Heen Dancers will be selling [...]
• ANSWER Camp prepares for 2009 students
Posted in education, Food preservation, traditional foods, tagged ANSWER Camp, berries, fish, Food preservation, Mt. Edgecumbe High School, salmon, SERRC, Sitka Local Foods Network, Southeast Regional Resource Center, subsistence, traditional foods on July 16, 2009 |
Seventh and eighth grade students from all over Alaska will be arriving in Sitka this week for the 12th annual Alaska Native Student Wisdom Enrichment Retreat, commonly known as ANSWER Camp, a 12-day residential program for Alaska Native students sponsored by the Southeast Regional Resource Center (SERRC) out of Juneau. Students at the ANSWER Camp [...]
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