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March 22, 2010 by sitkalocalfoodsnetwork

Click here to read the current Sitka Local Foods Network e-newsletter courtesy of Linda Wilson. Don’t forget, you can sign up for the e-newsletter by typing your e-mail address in the “Join Our Mailing List” box on bottom of the left side of the page.

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Posted in weekly e-newsletter | Tagged arts and crafts, baked goods, berries, e-newsletter, Ed Hume, farmers market, fish and seaweed, food, garden, Garden Ventures, growers needed, herring, Linda Wilson, Penny Brown, produce, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka Seafood Festival | Leave a Comment

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    • • Sitka Maritime Heritage Society to host a presentation on the importance of herring in Southeast Alaska
    • • Sitka Local Foods Network seeks market manager for 2012 Sitka Farmers Markets
    • • Booths and vendors needed for the Let’s Grow Sitka! garden education event in March
    • • Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors to meet on Monday, Feb. 6
    • • Pacific High School and Sitka Conservation Society partner up to serve local fish in school lunches

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  • Categories

  • Alaska Links

    • • "Common Edible Seaweeds in the Gulf of Alaska" by Dolly Garza, PhD (order info from the Alaska SeaGrant program)
    • • "Teaming With Microbes" site by Anchorage's Jeff Lowenfels, a member of the Garden Writers Association Hall of Fame
    • • "Wild, Edible and Medicinal Plants of Alaska, Canada and the Pacific Northwest Rainforest" pocket field guides order information (guides by Carol Biggs of Juneau)
    • • Alaska Bounty (fish-based fertilizer from Naknek, in Bristol Bay)
    • • Alaska Center for the Environment local food project
    • • Alaska Community Agriculture (social marketing site for Alaska CSA and small-scale farmers)
    • • Alaska Community Agriculture Association (new site)
    • • Alaska Department of Fish & Game (includes regulations and other resources for Sitka hunters and fishers)
    • • Alaska Farm Service Agency site (USDA program)
    • • Alaska Farmers Market Association site
    • • Alaska Food Challenge (group trying to eat only Alaska food during 2011-12)
    • • Alaska Food Coalition (helps provide food to the needy)
    • • Alaska Food Policy Council blog (updates from the Alaska Food Policy Council)
    • • Alaska Food Safety and Sanitation Program
    • • Alaska Food, a site from Susan Beeman Sommer that brings together other local food sites in Alaska
    • • Alaska Granular Fish (organic fish fertilizer from Palmer)
    • • Alaska Grown site (statewide cooperative to promote agriculture)
    • • Alaska Master Gardeners Association
    • • Alaska Native Plant Society
    • • Alaska Permaculture Community social networking site
    • • Alaska Permaculture Guild
    • • Alaska Pioneer Fruit Growers Association
    • • Alaska Sea Grant program (University of Alaska Fairbanks, library has info on fish, seaweeds, seafood safety, etc.)
    • • Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (site has lots of information for the uses of seafood)
    • • Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute recipe videos
    • • Alaska subsistence halibut regulations from NOAA
    • • Calypso Farm and Ecology Center (a Fairbanks-based community supported agriculture program)
    • • Fairbanks Community Cooperative Market site (a new market in Fairbanks devoted to local foods)
    • • Food Bank of Alaska
    • • Fresh 49 (a site by chef Robert Kinneen about Alaska's local food and its food supply)
    • • Gardening From The Cabbage Patch (collected columns from former Fairbanks Daily News-Miner garden columnist Pat Babcock)
    • • Glacier Valley Farms CSA (a community supported agriculture program that serves Southcentral Alaska)
    • • Good Earth Garden School / Ask Mother Nature: A Conscious Gardener's Guide (site by Palmer organic gardener, teacher and writer Ellen Vande Visse)
    • • HomeGrown Market of Fairbanks
    • • John Evans and his Giant Vegetables (Palmer gardener with several world records)
    • • Kenai Resilience (sustainability group from the Kenai Peninsula)
    • • Meyer's Farm (Bethel, Alaska, community supported agriculture project)
    • • Municipality of Anchorage community garden program
    • • RurAL CAP (Rural Alaska Community Action Program, Inc.)
    • • Seaweeds of Alaska (site sponsored by Cook Inlet Rural Citizens Advisory Council)
    • • Southcentral Alaska Beekeepers Association (SABA)
    • • Sustain Alaska site run by the Bioneers of Alaska (group does some food security projects)
    • • Sustainable Local Alaskan Plants site (connecting locally grown native plants to the people that need them)
    • • The Last Frontier Locavores site (aka, Alaska Locavores)
    • • University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service site
    • • University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Natural Resources & Agricultural Sciences
    • • USDA Rural Development page for Alaska

  • Blogroll

    • • "AK Root Cellar" blog about local foods in Alaska from the Anchorage Daily News
    • • "Alison's Lunch" blog by Alison Arians, president of the Alaska Farmers Market Association
    • • "Anonymous Bloggers," site about bringing food and fuel to rural Alaska (includes several links on cold-weather gardening)
    • • "DigginFood" blog about vegetable gardens and organic food by Willi Galloway
    • • "Dispatches From The Funky Butte Ranch" blog by former Haines, Alaska, resident Doug Fine, who is living off the grid in New Mexico
    • • "Eat Local Northwest" blog, a blog about local foods by Stephen Nowers in Anchorage and Audrey Young in Seattle
    • • "Feasting in the Skagit Foodshed" blog about local foods in Skagit Valley, Wash.
    • • "Food-G" blog by Ginny Mahar, a chef from Rainbow Foods in Juneau who writes about using local foods
    • • "Hunter Angler Gardener Cook: Finding the Forgotten Feast" blog by Hank Shaw
    • • "Mediterranean Cooking In Alaska" blog by Laurie Constantino of Anchorage (several recipes feature local ingredients)
    • • "Mucking About A Northwest Garden" blog from Rainy Side Gardeners
    • • "Rhubarb or Bust" blog about growing rhubarb in Alaska
    • • "Talk Dirt To Me" blog by Anchorage Daily News photographer/gardener Fran Durner
    • • "The Community Gardener" blog
    • • "The Fireweed" blog by UAF professor Philip Loring on building sustainable communities
    • • "The Locavore Way" blog by Amy Cotler
    • • "The Real Food Revolution" blog
    • • "The Starter Garden" blog from the New York Times (written by Michael Tortorello of Minnesota)
    • • "We Can Grow It" Alaska Community and Neighborhood Garden Web site
    • • Alaska Fishing Recipes
    • • Alaska Food Policy Council blog (updates from the Alaska Food Policy Council)
    • • Anchorage Daily News gardening columns by Jeff Lowenfels, a member of the Garden Writers Association Hall of Fame
    • • Fairbanks Community Cooperative Market blog (project to open a local foods market in Fairbanks)
    • • Fat of the Land blog, Adventures of a 21st Century Forager
    • • Food In Jars blog about canning food in jars
    • • Haines Gardeners and Farmers
    • • Kenley's Alaskan Vegetables and Flowers blog (from the Mat-Su valleys)
    • • Last Frontier Garden blog
    • • Placemaking for Communities blog from the Project for Public Spaces (has local food and market posts)
    • • Real Time Foods blog (stories about where our food comes from)
    • • Sitka Gardening blog (unknown poster who uses the handle Natural History of Sitka Sound)
    • • Sitka Nature blog by Matt Goff (an aspiring naturalist learns his place)
    • • UAF School of Natural Resources & Agricultural Sciences blog
    • • Veggie Gardeners blog

  • Films About Local Food or Local Food Systems

    • • "All Jacked Up," four teenagers look at the food system in America
    • • "America's Heartland," PBS series about agriculture in America
    • • "Asparagus: Stalking the American Life," a film from Michigan
    • • "Dirt! The Movie," a film about the relationships between humans and living dirt
    • • "Eating Alaska," a film by Sitka filmmaker Ellen Frankenstein
    • • "End of the Line," movie about over-fishing
    • • "Food Beware," a film about the French organic revolution
    • • "Food Fight," revolution never tasted this good
    • • "Food, Inc.," you'll never look at food the same way again
    • • "Fresh," new thinking about what we're eating
    • • "Good Food," sustainable food and farming in the Pacific Northwest
    • • "Growing Awareness," a Pacific Northwest film about Community Supported Agriculture
    • • "Ingredients," a documentary film from Portland, Ore.
    • • "King Corn," two recent college graduates grow an acre of corn
    • • "Living Lightly," a family lives off the grid in New Brunswick, farming and making scythes
    • • "Mad City Chickens," film about urban poultry
    • • "Media That Matters: Good Food," a series of short films about local food
    • • "Pollen Nation," a film about raising bees so they can pollinate local crops
    • • "The Garden," from the ashes of the L.A. riots rose a 14-acre community garden
    • • "The Organic Opportunity: Small Farms and Economic Development"
    • • "The Real Dirt on Farmer John," an industrial farmer goes organic
    • • "What Will We Eat?"

  • National and International Links

    • • "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle," site from the Barbara Kingsolver book (has good local foods links)
    • • "Chefs A'Field" PBS cooking show that takes chefs to the farm and field to see where our food comes from, includes segments from Alaska
    • • "Plant a Row for the Hungry" site from the Garden Writers Association
    • • American Community Garden Association
    • • American Farmland Trust
    • • American Planning Association's Policy Guide on Community and Regional Food Planning
    • • Cascade Harvest Coalition (local foods group in Washington)
    • • Center for Food Safety's True Food Network promoting a healthy, sustainable food system
    • • City Farmer's Urban Agriculture Notes (Vancouver, B.C., site)
    • • Community Chickens (a site with info about raising chickens)
    • • Community Food Security Coalition
    • • Community Greens, an organization to get more shared parks in urban blocks
    • • Eat Wild (organization promoting pasture-fed meat, eggs and dairy)
    • • Ed Hume Seeds (selected for the Pacific Northwest)
    • • Farmers Market Coalition
    • • Farmers Markets Today magazine article on Alaska farmers markets
    • • Feeding America (formerly known as America's Second Harvest)
    • • Food Routes (Where Does Your Food Come From?)
    • • Food Secure Vancouver (good site about a community's food security)
    • • Foraged and Found Edibles (Seattle business that sells wild mushrooms, greens, etc.)
    • • Garden Guides, Your Guide to Everything Gardening
    • • Gardening Know How site
    • • How-to page for controling slugs and snails from the National Gardening Association's "Edible Gardening with Charlie Nardozzi" page
    • • Hydroponic Vegetable Gardening Secrets
    • • IATP (Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy) Food and Society Fellows
    • • Kids Gardening (helping young minds grow)
    • • Kitchen Gardeners, a global community cultivating change
    • • Local food Web resources from the book "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle," by Barbara Kingsolver
    • • Local Harvest (national organization promoting local foods)
    • • Mad City Chickens (site from Wisconsin promoting urban poultry)
    • • National Bioneers site (go to bottom of page for Food and Farming link)
    • • National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
    • • National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
    • • Natural Resources Conservation Service (offers some grants for local foods projects)
    • • New City Farmer site on Urban Agriculture (Vancouver, B.C., site)
    • • Organic Consumers Association
    • • Organic Farming Research Foundation
    • • Permaculture Forums (organic homesteading, natural living)
    • • Permies.com (Goofballs who are nuts about permaculture)
    • • PickYourOwn.org (national directory of u-pick gardens and farms)
    • • Project for Public Spaces program for building public markets (lots of good resources)
    • • Rainy Side Gardeners (a site about gardening in the Pacific Northwest)
    • • Real Time Farms (national site that shows you where your food comes from)
    • • RichSoil.com (site by Paul Wheaton of Montana on horticulture and permaculture)
    • • Rodale Institute (supports organic farming, nutrition and similar causes)
    • • Seattle Tilth: Learn. Grow. Eat. (good education site on urban livestock and gardening from Seattle)
    • • Slow Food International
    • • Slow Food USA
    • • SPIN (Small-Plot INtensive) farming site about how to maximize production from small plots of land
    • • Still Tasty (site about the shelf life of food)
    • • Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders
    • • Sustainable Connections site for sustainable living in Northwest Washington
    • • Sustainable Table
    • • The Edible Garden Project (community garden project out of Vancouver, B.C.)
    • • The Fresh Loaf (site for amateur bakers and artisan bread enthusiasts)
    • • The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation
    • • The Trust for Public Land (TPL) — conservation and parks for people
    • • The Weston A. Price Foundation for Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts
    • • U.S. Department of Agriculture
    • • USDA Agricultural Marketing Service page for farmers markets and local food marketing (has national farmers market directory link)
    • • USDA's "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food" program page
    • • Washington Sustainable Food and Farming Network
    • • West Side Gardener (companion site for Rainy Day Gardeners, but focused on edibles)
    • • Wild Food Plants
    • • Wisconsin Fast Plants (rapid-growing edible plants that are great for gardening with kids)
    • • Yukon Agricultural Association (farming info for the north country)

  • Sitka Commercial Food Producers

    • • Absolute Fresh Seafoods
    • • Alaska Dream Salmon (the Jordan family and the F/V Saturday)
    • • Alaska Hook & Line Seafoods
    • • Alaska Longline Fishermen's Association (Sitka-based commercial fishing industry non-profit group)
    • • Alaskans Own Seafood
    • • Back Bay Botanicals (herbal medicinal products)
    • • Baranof Island Brewing Company (microbrew beer made in Sitka)
    • • Big Blue Fisheries LLC (custom processing, custom smoking, retail sales)
    • • Grandma Tillie's Bakery (locally produced baked goods)
    • • Highliner Coffee Company (gourmet coffee company)
    • • Larkspur Café (Sitka restaurant that uses local food on its menu)
    • • Ludvig's Bistro (Sitka restaurant that uses local seafood and organic veggies)
    • • Pearl of Alaska (Rocky Pass Pacific oysters from Kake)
    • • Rose Fisheries
    • • Sailor's Choice Coffee (locally roasted free trade coffee and nuts)
    • • Seafood Producers Cooperative
    • • Silver Bay Seafoods
    • • Simple Pleasures of Alaska (kelp and wild berry products)
    • • Sitka Sound Seafoods
    • • The Alaskan Kitchen (hand-made sausages and catering using local foods)
    • • Theobroma Chocolate Company
    • • True Alaska Bottling / Alaska Bulk Water
    • • Two Chicks And A Kabob Stick LLC (two sisters sell meals made with local seafood they caught themselves)

  • Sitka Links

    • • City and Borough of Sitka
    • • City of Sitka page about composting in Sitka (click link at bottom for next page)
    • • Eating Alaska (film about food choices by Sitka filmmaker Ellen Frankenstein)
    • • Garden Ventures (Facebook page for Sitka plant nursery)
    • • Kayaaní Commission site for the Sitka Tribe of Alaska group about traditional plant use
    • • Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association (salmon hatcheries)
    • • SEARHC (SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, one of our sponsor organizations)
    • • Sitka Community Schools page for the Blatchley Community Garden
    • • Sitka Conservation Society (one of our sponsor organizations)
    • • Sitka Farmers Market photo group page on Flickr.com
    • • Sitka Food Co-Op (new group trying to get a food co-op going in Sitka)
    • • Sitka Gardening site run by Sharon Romine
    • • Sitka Global Warming (one of our sponsor organizations)
    • • Sitka Health Summit project page on creating a community greenhouse
    • • Sitka Health Summit project page on creating a public market
    • • Sitka Local Foods Network events calendar
    • • Sitka Local Foods Network group page on Facebook
    • • Sitka Local Foods Network photos on Shutterfly
    • • Sitka Native Education Program (does some traditional foods classes)
    • • Sitka Outdoor Recreation Coalition (Get Out, Sitka!)
    • • Sitka resident Marcel LaPerriere's Southeast Cedar Homes business also is the local dealer for Solexx twin-wall greenhouses
    • • Sitka Seafood Festival fan page on Facebook
    • • Sitka Seafood Festival official site
    • • Sitka Sound Science Center (hatchery, aquarium, learning center)
    • • Sitka weekly sports fishing report from the Alaska Department of Fish & Game
    • • Spenard Builders Supply (sells garden supplies in Sitka)
    • • St. Peter's Fellowship Farm community garden photos (opens as PDF file)
    • • SwampRatt (site by former retired Sitka Pioneer Home gardener Jerry Snelling, with photos from the gardens)
    • • True Value hardware store
    • • United Southeast Alaska Gillnetter's Association (Juneau-based regional commercial salmon fishing industry group)
    • • University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service page for the Sitka District Office

  • Southeast Alaska Market / Garden Links

    • • Glacier Gardens Rain Forest Adventures (a privately owned botanical garden in Juneau)
    • • Gustavus Farmers Market
    • • Haines Farmers Market
    • • Jensen-Olson Arboretum in Juneau
    • • Jewell Gardens and Glassworks (a CSA garden in Skagway)
    • • Juneau Community Garden Association (new site)
    • • Juneau Community Gardens
    • • Juneau Community Gardens video from 2009
    • • Juneau Farmers Market (new site in 2010)
    • • Juneau Farmers Market and Local Foods Festival
    • • POW Farmers Market (a new Prince of Wales Island farmers market based in Thorne Bay)
    • • Southeast Alaska Master Gardeners site
    • • Wrangell Community Garden

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