The time and location have been changed for this month’s meeting Sitka Local Foods Network Board of Directors. The meeting now will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, May 3, at the Sitka Economic Development Association (SEDA)/Greater Sitka Chamber of Commerce conference room on the second floor of the Troutte Center Building on Lincoln [...]
Archive for April, 2010
• Sitka Local Foods Network board meeting time and location changed for Monday, May 3
Posted in Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors, Uncategorized, tagged Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, board meeting, community garden, community greenhouse, Ed Hume, food, food security, garden, Greater Sitka Chamber of Commerce, Kerry MacLane, Linda Wilson, market, Mt. Edgecumbe High School, produce, Sitka, Sitka Economic Development Association (SEDA), Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Sitka, WIC (Women Infants Children) supplemental food program on April 30, 2010 | Comments Off
• St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm communal garden work party takes place on Saturday, May 1
Posted in Gardens, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network events, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, Uncategorized, tagged broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, community garden, Doug Osborne, food, food security, garden, lettuce, Lisa Sadleir-Hart, planting party, potatoes, produce, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, work party on April 30, 2010 | Comments Off
The next work party to get the St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm communal garden ready for planting later this month takes place from 2-4 p.m. on Saturday, May 1. St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm is located behind the See House behind St. Peter’s By The Sea Episcopal Church on Lincoln Street. Tools and gloves will be provided. [...]
• Sitka Seafood Festival raffle tickets on sale now
Posted in Sitka Seafood Festival, Uncategorized, tagged Alicia Peavey, Common Grounds coffee, F/V Cloud Nine (Betsy and Moe Johnson), Fundraising raffle, Linda Olson, NANDA: Acrobaticalist Ninja Action Heroes, New Bayview Restaurant, Old Harbor Books, SeaMart, Sitka, Sitka Seafood Festival, Sweet Pea's Secondhand Boutique, Trampled By Turtles, Yellow Jersey Cycle Shop on April 30, 2010 | Comments Off
Tickets are on sale now for the Sitka Seafood Festival‘s fundraising raffle, which takes place at noon on Sunday, May 9, at the New Bayview Restaurant and Wine Bar. Raffle tickets were distributed to steering committee members, who will sell them for $5 each. The tickets also will be on sale from noon to 2 [...]
• Endless Summer Ecological Garden and Landscape is a new service for Sitka gardeners
Posted in Gardens, Let's Grow Sitka, Uncategorized, tagged ANB Hall, Endless Summer Ecological Garden and Landscape, food, food security, garden, garden and landscape planning, growing and maintenance, harvesting, herbs, Jesse Remund, landscape, Let's Grow Sitka, medicinal plants, planting, produce, Sitka, Sitka gardeners, Tracy Sylvester, vegetable gardens, vegetables on April 28, 2010 | Comments Off
Jesse Remund and Tracy Sylvester are offering a new service to Sitka with their Endless Summer Ecological Garden and Landscape company. Jesse and Tracy say they can help Sitka gardeners take local food to a new level. They will help local gardeners grow vegetables, herbs and medicinal plants by providing expertise and grunt labor. They [...]
• Sam Benowitz to give free presentation about growing fruit in Sitka
Posted in Gardens, Sitka Local Foods Network events, Uncategorized, tagged Alaska Pioneer Fruit Growers Association, apple trees, berry bushes, cherry trees, education, encouragement, food, garden, Jud Kirkness, RainTree Nursery, raspberries, Sam Benowitz, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network, tayberries on April 26, 2010 | Comments Off
Sam Benowitz of RainTree Nursery in Morton, Wash., will be in Sitka to give a free presentation about how to grow fruit in Southeast Alaska. The presentation will take place at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 24, at Harrigan Centennial Hall. His Sitka presentation will be about about selecting, growing, and maintaining fruit trees, berry [...]
• Planning underway for this summer’s Sitka Farmers Markets
Posted in Sitka Farmers Market, Uncategorized, tagged ANB Hall, arts and crafts, berries, carrots, cod, farmers market, food, food security, garden, halibut, Linda Wilson, music, produce, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network on April 26, 2010 | Comments Off
It’s spring again and time to start planning for our third year of Sitka Farmers Markets. This year, the markets are scheduled for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on alternate Saturdays, July 17 and 31, Aug. 14 and 28, and Sept. 11, at the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall. We really, really, need more locally grown [...]
• Sitka Local Foods Network selling seeds from Bountiful Gardens as fundraiser
Posted in Fundraisers for the Sitka Local Foods Network, tagged beets, Bountiful Gardens, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, encouragement, food security, fundraiser, garden, greens mixes, GROW BIOINTENSIVE, Jamie Chevalier, kale, Kerry MacLane, lettuces, Old Harbor Books, peas, produce, radishes, seeds, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network, summer squash on April 22, 2010 | Comments Off
Help support the Sitka Local Foods Network by purchasing organic seed varieties from Bountiful Gardens seed company that have been specially selected for our challenging climate by longtime Sitka gardener Jamie Chevalier. There will be a serve-yourself seed rack at Old Harbor Books, with an honor-system donation jar for making change next to the seeds. [...]
• Volunteers prepare St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm garden beds for planting, next work party is May 1
Posted in Gardens, Sitka Local Foods Network events, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, tagged community garden, Doug Osborne, education, encouragement, food, food security, garden, Jonathan Cox, Linda Wilson, Lisa Sadleir-Hart, Planting parties, produce, projects, Seaview Gardens, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, spring planting, St. Peter's By The Sea Episcopal Church, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, work party on April 21, 2010 | Comments Off
Several volunteers helped out at a work party on Saturday afternoon, April 17, to get the St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm communal garden ready for planting next month. The volunteers pulled weeds, mixed kelp and compost into the soil, built a couple of new garden beds, painted some new planters, transplanted some strawberries, cleaned out the [...]
• Sitka Global Warming Group, Sitka Local Foods Network offer Sitka garden-matching program
Posted in Gardens, tagged food, garden, garden match program, growing food locally, Michelle Putz, projects, Sitka, Sitka Global Warming Group, Sitka Local Foods Network on April 19, 2010 | Comments Off
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 Seafood Festival steering committee to meet on Thursday, May 6
Posted in education, Fish and game, Sitka Seafood Festival, traditional foods, tagged 501(c)(3), Alicia Peavey, Bayview Restaurant, cod, education, encouragement, F/V Cloud (Betsy and Moe Johnson), fish, food security, halibut, Harrigan Centennial Hall, Linda Olson, NANDA: Acrobaticalist Ninja Action Heroes, projects, raffle, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Conservation Society, Sitka Fire Station, Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka Seafoof Festival, Taste of Sitka, traditional foods, Yellow Jersey Cycle Shop on April 19, 2010 | Comments Off
The next meeting of the Sitka Seafood Festival steering committee takes place at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 6, at Harrigan Centennial Hall (Editor’s note: The meeting has been changed to 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 6, at the Sitka Fire Station). Six smaller committees are supposed to hold meetings before the steering committee meets [...]
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