The Sitka Seafood Festival steering committee will meet at 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 1, at the Sitka Economic Development Association (SEDA)/Greater Sitka Chamber of Commerce office on the second floor of the Troutte Center Building on Lincoln Street (above Seasons card store). The meeting agenda will finalize the event’s mission statement and the vision [...]
Archive for March, 2010
• Sitka Seafood Festival steering committee to meet on April 1
Posted in Fish and game, Local food in the news, Sitka Seafood Festival, traditional foods, tagged Alicia Peavey, cod, crab, education, encouragement, fish, halibut, herring, projects, sablefish, salmon, scallops, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka Seafood Festival on March 31, 2010 | Comments Off
• Sitka Local Foods Network featured on APRN’s “Talk of Alaska” statewide call-in show about local food production
Posted in education, food security, Local food in the news, Sitka Local Foods Network in the news, tagged Alaska Food Policy Council, Alaska News Nightly, Alaska Public Radio Network (APRN), Bethel, Bioneers of Alaska, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), composting, education, encouragement, food security, Kerry MacLane, Local Food Production, Meyer's Farm, Our Food Supply, sac roe herring, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka Seafood Festival, soil conditions, spring planting, Steve Heimel, Talk of Alaska, Tim Meyers on March 30, 2010 | Comments Off
Sitka Local Foods Network President Kerry MacLane was one of the featured guests for the Alaska Public Radio Network’s “Talk of Alaska” statewide call-in show hosted by Steve Heimel on Tuesday, March 30. The topic of Tuesday’s hour-long show was “Local Food Production.” If you weren’t able to hear the show, you can listen to [...]
• Group to meet about organizing a Sitka Seafood Festival this summer
Posted in Fish and game, Local food in the news, Sitka Seafood Festival, traditional foods, tagged Alicia Peavey, black cod, cod, crab, fish, food, Greater Sitka Chamber of Commerce, halibut, oysters, sablefish, salmon, seafood, Seasons card store, Sitka, Sitka Economic Development Association (SEDA), Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka Seafood Festival, traditional foods on March 24, 2010 | Comments Off
A group in Sitka will meet at 6 p.m. tonight, Wednesday, March 24, at the Sitka Economic Development Association’s conference room (second floor of the Troutte Center building on Lincoln Street, the Sitka Chamber of Commerce office above Seasons card store) to plan the inaugural Sitka Seafood Festival. The group first met on Saturday afternoon, [...]
• Sitka growers to contribute to local CSA venture
Posted in Gardens, greenhouse, Let's Grow Sitka, tagged bananas, beets, berries, blueberries, bread, Brian Pierce, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), Down To Earth u-pick gardens, encouragement, Eve's Farm, Evening Star Grutter, Fabian Grutter, farmers market, Florence Welsh, food, garden, Gimbal Botanicals, green beans, greens, Hope Merritt, Judy Johnstone, kelp products, lemons, Let's Grow Sitka, limes, Lori Adams, market, oranges, Organically Grown Company of Portland Ore., pineapples, potatoes, produce, radishes, raspberries, Renee Pierce, Simple Pleasures of Alaska, Sitka, Sitka CSA, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, Sprucecot Gardens, strawberries, The Pierce Family, The Welsh Family Forget-Me-Not Gardens, tomatoes, wild berry jelly, zucchini on March 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
One of the latest trends in farming is Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), which enables people to buy local, seasonal food directly from the farmer. Renee and Brian Pierce, who own the locally made kelp products and wild berry jelly shop Simple Pleasures of Alaska, are working with Sitka growers to start a small CSA venture [...]
• Florence Welsh updates her popular garden guide for Sitka
Posted in education, Let's Grow Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network events, tagged berries, carrots, drainage, edible and ornamental plants, education, encouragement, farmers market, Florence Welsh, food, fruit trees, herbs/mints, insects, invasive plants, Let's Grow Sitka, lettuce, organic, potatoes, produce, sand, seaweed, seed starting, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, slugs, The Welsh Family Forget-Me-Not Gardens, vegetables on March 18, 2010 | Comments Off
One of Sitka’s best known gardeners is Florence Welsh, who heads up The Welsh Family Forget-Me-Not Gardens. The Welsh family has been gardening in Sitka since 1984, and the garden on Davidoff Street has been used to teach other gardeners what works in Sitka. Several years ago Florence wrote a guide to help other gardeners [...]
• Photo album from the 2010 ‘Let’s Grow Sitka!’ available
Posted in education, Fundraisers for the Sitka Local Foods Network, Let's Grow Sitka, Photo galleries, Sitka Local Foods Network events, tagged ANB Hall, carrots, community garden, community greenhouse, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), education, encouragement, fish, Florence Welsh, food, garden, Let's Grow Sitka, market, potatoes, produce, projects, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network, Sonja Koukel, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, UAF Cooperative Extension Service on March 15, 2010 | Comments Off
The Sitka Local Foods Network extends a big thank you to the more than 200 people who stopped by Sunday, March 14, for the “Let’s Grow Sitka!” garden show at Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall. If you stopped by, you were able to check out booths from local gardeners who sell their surplus veggies, learn about [...]
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