Preserving Alaska’s Wild Berries By Dr. Sonja Koukel, PhD Health, Home & Family Development Program UAF Cooperative Extension Service, Juneau Office _____ Is your freezer teeming with berries harvested last season? If so, now is the time to preserve them in jams, jellies, or syrups. As the winter days grow darker and shorter, preserving berries [...]
Archive for November, 2009
• Sonja Koukel of the UAF Cooperative Extension Service writes about preserving Alaska wild berries
Posted in education, Food preservation, Recipes, traditional foods, tagged berries, Dr. Sonja Koukel, education, food, jams and jellies, preserves, traditional foods, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, wild berries on November 26, 2009 | Comments Off
• New curriculum guide released for movie “Eating Alaska” by Sitka filmmaker Ellen Frankenstein
Posted in education, Food choices, tagged curriculum guide, Eating Alaska, education, Ellen Frankenstein, encouragement, food, Sitka, subsistence, traditional foods on November 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sitka filmmaker Ellen Frankenstein has released a new curriculum book for teachers using her movie, “Eating Alaska.” You can click here to download the guide from the New Day Films site, which has more info about the movie, or you can download the PDF file by clicking the attachment below. EATING ALASKA GUIDE NOV 2009
• Food security in Alaska a big issue in recent local foods news stories
Posted in Food choices, food security, Local food in Alaska projects and research, Local food in the news, tagged Alaska Food Coalition, Alaska Newsreader, Alaska Trust Food Network, Alaska's Hungriest Communities, Anchorage Daily News, Chickaloon Tribe, Christian Science Monitor, community greenhouse, education, encouragement, Fairbanks Community Cooperative Market, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, food security, Glacier Creek Distillery, halibut, household food security, Huffington Post, Jenny Jones Foundation, Juneau Empire, Kim Sollien, moose hunters, moose meat, Permafrost Alaska Vodka, potatoes, Quinhagak, Sarah Palin, subsistence, Sustainable Community Action Network for Fairbanks, Tanana Valley Meats, The Daily Beast, traditional foods, UAF School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Science, USDA, Washington Post on November 23, 2009 | Comments Off
Last week, the Anchorage Daily News’ Alaska Newsreader blog reported on a story from the Huffington Post’s The Daily Beast blog that ranked Alaska second in failing to properly feed its people. The story used data from a new USDA survey on household food security in 2008, where Alaska was ranked in the middle of [...]
• Hunters, do you know what’s in your ammo and how it affects your meat?
Posted in education, Fish and game, traditional foods, tagged Alaska Department of Fish and Game, alternatives to lead bullets, California non-lead awareness program, copper bullets, education, food, fowl, hunting, Institute for Wildlife Studies, lead bullets, lead fragments in venison, lead shot, Minnesota, non-toxic shot, North Dakota, Sitka black-tailed deer, steel shot, subsistence, traditional foods, venison, waterfowl, wild fowl, wild game on November 22, 2009 | Comments Off
Hunting for wild fowl and game is a part of normal life in Alaska. It’s the way many of us fill our freezers, and it’s been part of the traditional subsistence lifestyle for centuries. Many of us feel the natural, wild fowl and game we hunt is healthier for our families than store-bought poultry, beef [...]
• Sitka film featured in Palmer’s “Local Harvest, Local Food” film festival, a Sitka café featured for using local food and other local foods news
Posted in education, Fish and game, Food choices, Gardens, Local food in the news, Sitka Farmers Market, traditional foods, tagged "Local Harvest Local Food" film food, Alaska Dispatch, Alaska Farm Bureau, Amelia Budd, Amy Kane, Anchorage Daily News, Capital City Weekly, Chicken University, Chilkat Valley News, community garden, community greenhouse, composting project, customary and traditional uses, Daily Sitka Sentinel, Eating Alaska, education, Ellen Frankenstein, encouragement, ethnobotony, fish, food, Fran Durner, Fresh movie, Frontiersman, garden, Glacier Valley CSA, Good Food movie, Growing Season, Haines, Haines School, halibut, hydroponic gardening, Ingredients movie, Jeff Lowenfels, Kayaaní Commission, Larkspur Café, local food, local harvest, McMurdo Station in Antarctica, native plants, NOAA, Palmer, Palmer Arts Council, produce, projects, rural residents, Sitka, Sitka Tribe of Alaska, subsistence, subsistence halibut, Takshanuk Watershed Council, Talk Dirt To Me, The Ester Republic, traditional foods on November 13, 2009 | Comments Off
Join the Palmer Arts Council for its inaugural “Local Harvest, Local Food” film fest from Thursday, Nov. 19, through Sunday, Nov. 22, at the Strangebird Consulting Office in downtown Palmer. “Good Food” screens at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 19; “Fresh” shows at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 20; “Eating Alaska” by Sitka filmmaker Ellen [...]
• Sonja Koukel of the UAF Cooperative Extension Service writes about storing potatoes
Posted in education, Food preservation, Gardens, tagged College of Southern Idaho, education, food, garden, potatoes, root cellars, Sonja Koukel, storing potatoes, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, University of Idaho Cooperative Extension Service on November 5, 2009 | Comments Off
Storing Potatoes By Dr. Sonja Koukel, PhD Health, Home & Family Development Program UAF Cooperative Extension Service, Juneau Office ————— They live. They breathe. And because they’re 80 percent water, potato tubers thrive in humid locations. In moist Southeast Alaska, where are the best spots in your home to store your potatoes? Research by University [...]
• WISEGUYS men’s health group builds a community potato patch in Klukwan
Posted in Gardens, Local food in Alaska projects and research, tagged cabbage, Chilkat Indian Village, Chippewa potato, community garden, education, encouragement, food, garden, Kennebec potato, Klukwan, Mike Adams, potatoes, RurAL CAP, SEARHC, SEARHC Behavioral Health Prevention Program, SEARHC Klukwan Health Center, SEARHC WISEWOMAN Women's Health Program, subsistence, Tlingít potato, WISEGUYS men's health group, Yukon Gold potato on November 4, 2009 | Comments Off
While this site is about the Sitka Local Foods Network and projects in Sitka promoting local foods, occasionally we have news from a nearby community that’s worth reporting. This summer, the new WISEGUYS men’s health group in Klukwan, a Tlingít community just north of Haines, decided to build a potato patch to raise potatoes and [...]
• Local foods a topic of several Alaska news stories over the past week or so
Posted in education, Fish and game, Food choices, Local food in Alaska projects and research, Local food in the news, traditional foods, tagged Agricultural Research Service, Alaska Dispatch, Alaska Federation of Natives, Alaska Journal of Commerce, Alaska Pioneer's Fruit Growers Association, Alaska Public Radio Network, Alaska wild plant seeds, Anchorage Daily News, community garden, Consumer Guide to Sustainable Seafood, Craig Medred, education, Ex-Gov. Sarah Palin, Fairbanks Community Cooperative Market, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, fish, food, garden, halibut, invasive plant species, Kew Gardens Millennium Seed Bank, Lawrence Clark, Mike Emers, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Orso Ristorante, produce, projects, Robert Kineen, Rosie Creek Farm, salmon, subsistence, traditional foods, Triple D Farm and Hatchery, turkeys, University of Alaska Fairbanks on November 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This has been an interesting couple of weeks, with food security being discussed at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention, subsistence rights and responsibilities in the news and other stories highlighting the local foods market in Alaska. The Alaska Public Radio Network ran a story about food security being a hot topic at the Alaska [...]
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