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Archive for February, 2010
• New feature added — Sitka Local Foods Marketplace (for in-season local food in Sitka)
Posted in Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Marketplace, tagged berries, cod, farmers market, fish, food, fresh king salmon, halibut, heads of lettuce, in-season local food, local gardeners and fishermen, market, potatoes, produce, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Commercial Food Producers, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Marketplace, Sitka Local Foods Network on February 27, 2010 |
There have been some requests for a Sitka Local Foods Marketplace, where local gardeners and fishermen can post notes when they have in-season local food available in Sitka. So we’ve added a Sitka Local Foods Marketplace page (please click this link), and the marketplace page can be found at the top of our main Sitka [...]
• Sitka gardeners to meet Tuesday, March 16, at UAS-Sitka Campus
Posted in education, Gardens, tagged Bob Gorman, Cheryl Stromme, community garden, community greenhouse, education, encouragement, garden, Japonski Island, Sitka, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, University of Alaska Southeast-Sitka Campus on February 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
There will be an informal get together for interested Sitka gardeners from 7-8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 16, in Room 106 at the University of Alaska Southeast-Sitka Campus on Japonski Island. The get together is for gardeners of all types, interests, and skills to informally exchange ideas, information, seed catalogs and growing tips. Share and [...]
• ‘Let’s Grow Sitka!’ garden show takes place Sunday, March 14
Posted in education, Gardens, Let's Grow Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network events, tagged ANB Hall, berries, community garden, community greenhouse, education, encouragement, farmers market, food, garden, Let's Grow Sitka, Linda Wilson, produce, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, traditional foods, UAF Cooperative Extension Service on February 18, 2010 |
All gardeners and would-be gardeners are encouraged to attend the second annual “Let’s Grow Sitka!” educational and social event for Sitka gardeners. Let’s Grow Sitka! takes place from noon until 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 14, at the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall on Katlian Street. Learn about home greenhouses, how to prepare your soil, and [...]
• Sitka Global Warming Group, Sitka Local Foods Network offer Sitka garden-matching program
Posted in Gardens, Let's Grow Sitka, tagged ANB Hall, encouragement, food, food security, garden, garden-matching program, growing food locally, Katlian Street, Let's Grow Sitka, Michelle Putz, produce, Sitka, Sitka Global Warming Group, Sitka Local Foods Network, vegetables on February 18, 2010 |
Do you have a planting bed that you don’t have the time or energy to cultivate? Do you wish you could grow some vegetables, but have no place to put them? Sitka Global Warming Group (SGWG), in conjunction with the Sitka Local Foods Network, is offering a garden-matching program to help people who have garden [...]
• Sitka office of UAF Cooperative Extension Service to host Master Gardener class
Posted in education, Gardens, greenhouse, tagged Alaska Master Gardeners, Bob Gorman, community garden, community greenhouse, education, encouragement, food, fruits and vegetables, garden, Master Gardeners, produce, projects, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network, Southeast Alaska Master Gardeners, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, University of Alaska Southeast-Sitka Campus on February 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Sitka office of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service will host a 40-hour Master Gardener class from 6-9 p.m. every Wednesday night from March 3 through May 12 in Sitka. The class also will involve two 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday sessions, on March 20 and May. All classes take place [...]
• Juneau hosts Alaska Greenhouse and Nursery Conference on Feb. 25-26
Posted in education, Gardens, greenhouse, tagged Alaska Greenhouse and Nursery Conference, ANB Hall, Darren Snyder, food, garden, Juneau, landscape design, native plants, new varieties, Polar Grower Trade Show, produce, slugs and snails, Southeast Gardening Workshop, UAF Cooperative Extension Service on February 14, 2010 |
Save the dates: The Alaska Greenhouse and Nursery Conference takes place on Feb. 25-26 in Juneau, with the Southeast Gardening Workshop on Feb. 27. These events should be worth a trip from Sitka to Juneau. Alaska Greenhouse and Nursery Conference topics will include slugs and snails, low maintenance landscape design, propagating native plants, new varieties [...]
• Sitka gardeners extend growing seasons with government pilot study on high tunnels
Posted in food security, Gardens, tagged Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, farm, farmers, garden, high tunnels, hoop houses, Know Your Farmers Know Your Food, Sitka, soil conservation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, UAF School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, USDA, USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), White House garden on February 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Several Sitka gardeners will be extending their growing seasons this year thanks to a government soil conservation program designed to study the effectiveness of “high tunnels” or “hoop houses” when it comes to growing more local food in a conservation-minded way. To qualify you need to have grown $1,000 worth of produce for two of [...]
• Sitka Local Foods Network contracting for 2010 St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm lead gardener
Posted in Gardens, Let's Grow Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, tagged beans, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, community garden, composting, Doug Osborne, farmers market, food, garden, garden beds, garden herbs, lead gardener, lettuce, Lisa Sadleir-Hart, market, Maybelle Filler, onions, peas, potatoes, produce, radishes, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, tomatoes, turnips, vegetables, water systems on February 2, 2010 |
The Sitka Local Foods Network is contracting for a lead gardener to help manage our activities at the St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm community garden this summer. St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm (SPFF) is growing, and we’re adding new garden beds so we can grow more crops. The vegetables grown at SPFF are sold at the Sitka [...]
• Sitka Local Foods Network board meetings
Posted in Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors, tagged projects, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors, St. Peter's By The Sea Episcopal Church, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm on February 1, 2010 |
Just a reminder that the Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors meets for lunch, from noon to 1 p.m., on the first Monday of each month (except the summer months of June, July and August). The meetings now take place at the See House, located behind St. Peter’s By The Sea Episcopal Church on [...]
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