Evening Star Grutter and Fabian Grutter of Eve’s Farm won the “Table of the Day Award” for the fourth Sitka Farmers Market of the season on Aug. 29. The Sitka Local Foods Network selected the table — which featured a variety of fresh produce and homemade jams and jellies — to receive the $25 cash [...]
Archive for August, 2009
• Evening Star Grutter wins Table of the Day Award from fourth Sitka Farmers Market
Posted in Sitka Farmers Market, tagged ANB Hall, arts and crafts, cod, Eve's Farm, Evening Star Grutter, farmers market, fish, food, garden, Linda Wilson, market, music, potatoes, produce, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
• Juneau hosts second annual Juneau Farmers Market and Local Food Festival and other news
Posted in Local food in the news, tagged aeroponics, Alaska Journal of Commerce, alternative energy, Bernie Karl, Chena Hot Springs Resort, community greenhouse, Fairbanks Community Cooperative Market, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, farmers market, Juneau, Juneau Commission on Sustainability, Juneau Empire, Juneau Farmers Market and Local Foods Festival on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Juneau Commission on Sustainability hosted its second annual Juneau Farmers Market and Local Food Festival on Saturday, and the Juneau Empire had plenty of coverage of Juneau’s only farmers market of the summer. Click here to reach the main story about the farmers market in Sunday’s edition of the Juneau Empire. Click here to [...]
• SEARHC, Cooperative Extension hosts free garden workshop on Sept. 9
Posted in Gardens, education, tagged Angoon, audioconference, Bob Gorman, diabetes prevention, education, garden, Haines, Juneau, Kake, Klawock, Maybelle Filler, SEARHC, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, videoconference, workshop on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Do you want to grow some of your own food this summer, so you can have more fresh food choices and eat healthier dinners? Then the fourth and final installment in a continuing series of garden workshops is for you. The SEARHC Diabetes and Health Promotion programs have teamed up with master gardener Bob Gorman [...]
• Alaska Grown’s Eat Local Challenge is this week
Posted in Local food in the news, tagged Alaska Division of Agriculture, Alaska Grown, Eat Local Challenge, food, garden, produce on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Alaska Public Radio Network had a story on the Alaska News Nightly show Thursday night about the “Eat Local Challenge,” which takes place Aug. 23-29. Click here to listen to the story, which discusses what’s available around the state and how residents can encourage their local stores and restaurants to carry more Alaska Grown [...]
• To extend the lives of berries, give them a hot bath
Posted in Food preservation, education, traditional foods, tagged berries, blueberries, education, food, garden, New York Times, strawberries, subsistence, thermotherapy, traditional foods on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It happens to all berry fans. You pick a bunch of berries, or buy some in the store, and within a day or two you have mold growing on them. Yuck. Earlier this week, the New York Times ran an article (free registration required to open link) about how to solve this problem. Give the [...]
• Capital City Weekly features Sitka Farmers Market, and other local food stories in the news
Posted in Local food in the news, Sitka Local Foods Network in the news, tagged 100-mile diet, Capital City Weekly, farmers market, Juneau, Juneau Empire, Juneau Farmers Market and Local Foods Festival, locavore, rose hips, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, Sonja Koukel, sourdough bread, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Click here to see a photo in this week’s issue of Capital City Weekly that shows Table of the Day Award-winners Hope Merritt and Judy Johnstone of Gimbal Botanicals and Sprucecot Gardens receiving their award from Ellen Frankenstein at the third Sitka Farmers Market of the season on Aug. 15. We host the fourth Sitka [...]
• Fourth Sitka Farmers Market of summer takes place on Saturday (Aug. 29)
Posted in Sitka Farmers Market, tagged ANB Hall, arts and crafts, berries, Care2.com, cod, farmers market, fish, food, halibut, Linda Wilson, LocalHarvest.org, Love Your Farmers Market contest, market, potatoes, produce, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The fourth Sitka Farmers Market of the summer takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Saturday (Aug. 29) at the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall (235 Katlian St.). The Sitka Farmers Market features about 20-30 vendors each market who sell locally grown produce, locally harvested fish and locally made arts and crafts. The market [...]
• First Alaskans magazine highlights healthy berries
Posted in Food choices, Local food in the news, traditional foods, tagged berries, Recipes, blueberries, First Alaskans magazine, lingonberries, salmonberries, crowberries, currants, cranberries, blueberry buckle, University of Alaska Fairbanks on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The August/September 2009 issue of First Alaskans magazine — a statewide magazine of Native business, culture and lifestyle — features an article called “Health Numbers of Berries: Antitoxidant calculations show which ones are best.” This article isn’t posted on the First Alaskans magazine Web site, so a scanned black-and-white PDF version is available by clicking [...]
• Sitka Farmers Market on the Farm-To-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, Corvallis (Ore.) Gazette-Times sites
Posted in Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network in the news, tagged community garden, farmers market, Florence Welsh, food, garden, Gazette-Times of Corvallis Ore., Gimbal Botanicals, Hope Merritt, Kerry MacLane, produce, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Daily Sitka Sentinel article from mid-July previewing this year’s series of Sitka Farmers Market events continues to make the rounds of publications in the Lower 48. Click here to see the article posted on the Farm-To-Consumer Legal Defense Fund site. The article also made its way to the Gazette-Times of Corvallis, Ore. (click here [...]
• Juneau Empire spotlights harvest of Tlingít potatoes
Posted in Gardens, Local food in the news, Photo galleries, education, traditional foods, tagged Alaska Department of Fish & Game, Elizabeth Kunibe, food, garden, Jensen-Olson Arboretum, Juneau, Juneau Empire, potatoes, subsistence, Tlingít potato, traditional foods, UAF Cooperative Extension Service on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Juneau Empire on Monday (click here) ran a nice photo package of a sustainable harvest camp at the Jensen-Olson Arboretum in Juneau that was hosted by the 4-H program run by UAF Cooperative Extension Service and the Alaska Department of Fish & Game. The photos feature several children harvesting “Maria’s Potatoes,” a type of [...]
