On Friday afternoon, the Sitka Local Foods Network hosted anthropology student Elizabeth Kunibe of Juneau for a presentation, “Growing in Sitka and Southeast Alaska: Food of Today, Tomorrow and 200 Years Ago.” This presentation took place at the Kettleson Memorial Library and we had a standing-room-only crowd of 50-plus, despite being arranged less than a [...]
Archive for October, 2009
• Thanks for “Growing in Sitka and Southeast Alaska” presentation
Posted in education, Food choices, Gardens, Local food in Alaska projects and research, traditional foods, tagged education, Elizabeth Kunibe, encouragement, food, garden, Growing in Sitka and Southeast Alaska, Kettleson Memorial Library, potatoes, Sarah Jones, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network, subsistence, Tlingít garden, Tlingít potato, traditional foods on October 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
• Sitka Conservation Society hosts Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Posted in education, Gardens, Local food in Alaska projects and research, tagged community garden, Eating Alaska, Ellen Frankenstein, food, garden, Homegrown Revolution, produce, Sitka, Sitka Conservation Society, Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka Performing Arts Center, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival on October 19, 2009 | Comments Off
The largest environmental film festival in North America is coming to Sitka. Sitka Conservation Society is hosting the second annual Sitka tour stop of the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival on Saturday, Oct. 24, at the Sitka Performing Arts Center. Doors will open at 6 p.m. with informative and action booths hosted by local [...]
• Sitka Local Foods Network gets mentions in Juneau Empire, Daily Sitka Sentinel, Capital City Weekly and on APRN’s Talk of Alaska show
Posted in education, Fish and game, Food choices, Gardens, Local food in Alaska projects and research, Local food in the news, Recipes, traditional foods, tagged Alaska Native Brotherhood/Alaska Native Sisterhood Grand Camp, Alaska Newsreader, Alaska Public Radio Network, Anchorage Daily News, biodiversity, Bioneers in Alaska, Capital City Weekly, Carla Peterson, chocolate lily, community garden, Daily Sitka Sentinel, Elizabeth Kunibe, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, fish, food, food security, Food-G blog, garden, garlic, Ginny Mahar, Jeff Lowenfels, Juneau Empire, Kerry MacLane, king crab, Mat-Su Frontiersman, potatoes, produce, salmon, Sen. Albert Kookesh, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, subsistence, subsistence fishing rights, sustainability, Talk of Alaska, TheDailyGreen.com, traditional foods, Trust for Public Land, UAF Mat-Su College on October 14, 2009 | Comments Off
The Sunday edition of the Juneau Empire and Monday edition of the Daily Sitka Sentinel (Page 4) both featured a press release about a Sitka Local Foods Network-hosted presentation about “Growing in Sitka and Southeast Alaska: The Food of Today, Tomorrow and 200 Years Ago” that takes place at 5 p.m. this Friday, Oct. 16, [...]
• Sitka Local Foods Network hosts historical gardening presentation on Friday, Oct. 16
Posted in education, Food choices, Gardens, Local food in Alaska projects and research, tagged community garden, education, Elizabeth Kunibe, food, Klukwan, potatoes, produce, Sitka Local Foods Network, subsistence, Tlingít potato, traditional foods on October 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Sitka Local Foods Network will host a brief historical gardening presentation by Elizabeth Kunibe, “Growing in Sitka and Southeast Alaska: Food of Today, Tomorrow and 200 Years Ago,” at 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 16, at the Kettleson Memorial Library. This event is free and open to all, and it should last about 45 [...]
• Sitka Local Foods Network hosts garden work party on Oct. 17
Posted in Gardens, tagged community garden, community greenhouse, compost, garden, garden tools, Lisa Sadleir-Hart, Maybelle Filler, mulch, projects, protective coverings, putting the garden to bed, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, weeding on October 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Sitka Local Foods Network will host a “putting the garden to rest” work party from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 17, at St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm. The Oct. 17 work party involves a last bit of weeding, pulling out the annual plants for compost, putting mulch and protective coverings over the [...]
• Recent articles highlight food security issue in rural Alaska
Posted in education, Fish and game, Food choices, Local food in the news, traditional foods, tagged Alaska Dispatch, Alaska Local Food Film Festival, Angoon, Bethel, Chilkat Valley News, Delta Junction, Delta Meat and Sausage, Eating Alaska, Ellen Frankenstein, Emmonak, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, food, Galloway cattle, garden, Haines, hawk, Juneau Empire, Marshall, Meyer's Farm, moose hunting, mushrooms, New York Times, salmon, Sen. Albert Kookesh, Sitka Local Foods Network, snow goose, subsistence, The Tundra Drums, traditional foods, Yukon king salmon on October 6, 2009 | Comments Off
The New York Times on Saturday ran a lengthy article by former Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reporter Stefan Milkowski about how weak runs of king salmon are hurting Yukon River communities. The article is datelined from the village of Marshall, near the mouth of the Yukon River, where villagers already are feeling the pinch of no [...]
• Sonja Koukel of the UAF Cooperative Extension Service writes about home canning crab and shrimp
Posted in education, Fish and game, Food preservation, Local food in the news, traditional foods, tagged Capital City Weekly, crab, Dr. Sonja Koukel, education, encouragement, food, geoducks, home canning, PhD, shrimp, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network, subsistence, traditional foods, UAF Cooperative Extension Service on October 3, 2009 | Comments Off
The following column originally appeared in the Sept. 30-Oct. 6, 2009, issue of Capital City Weekly and was made available to the Sitka Local Foods Network site. This column runs monthly. More on Home Canning Seafood: Crab and Shrimp By Dr. Sonja Koukel, PhD Health, Home & Family Development Program UAF Cooperative Extension Service For [...]
• Alaska Local Food Film Festival featured on Alaska Public Radio Network and other local food news
Posted in Local food in the news, tagged Alaska Local Food Film Festival, Alaska News Nightly, Alaska Public Radio Network, Anchorage Daily News, APRN, Beartooth Theatrepub and Grill, Eating Alaska, Ellen Frankenstein, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, game meat, garden, hunting, Jeff Lowenfels, meat, Michael Pollan, moose, Sam Bishop, subsistence, The Peterborough Examiner, traditional foods on October 3, 2009 | Comments Off
The Alaska Public Radio Network’s Alaska News Nightly show on Friday night had a feature story about the inaugural Alaska Local Food Film Festival that runs Oct. 2-8 at Anchorage’s Beartooth Theatrepub and Grill. The story included discussion about the movie “Eating Alaska” by Sitka filmmaker Ellen Frankenstein, which will be shown on Sunday and [...]
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